Trade execution and volatility usually rank high for a majority of stock market participants, including day traders. In fact, in the past couple of years, traders have witnessed increased stock market volatility which has certainly increased their curiosity about how stock exchanges work. One of the most notable events that made an impact was… Continue reading Alternative Trading System (ATS): What It Is And How It Works
Engineered Bacteria Use Air Bubbles as Acoustically Detonated Tumor TNT
Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. So many of the objects we interact with nowadays run on programming and are designed for an exact purpose. We don’t typically think of living things as falling into this category, but more and more scientists are programming and designing living cells and… Continue reading Engineered Bacteria Use Air Bubbles as Acoustically Detonated Tumor TNT
What Can the U.S. Expect From Omicron?
We all know it by now: Omicron is coming. Actually, it’s already here. The question most of us are asking ourselves is now, “What does this mean for my family and my community?” The answer, depending on which news sources you consume and which commentators you follow on social media, is somewhere between impending doom… Continue reading What Can the U.S. Expect From Omicron?
Barclays Among Investment Banks Set To Boost Bonuses Between 25% And 50%
Barlcay’s is joining the long list of investment banks ramping up pay for its employees. The bank is expected to boost its bonuses by more than 25% this year after record results and in a global competition to retain talent in the industry. The boosts in pay are a stark delta from 2020, when pay… Continue reading Barclays Among Investment Banks Set To Boost Bonuses Between 25% And 50%
The Word and Silence – SpiritualDirection.com
Anthony Lilles Anthony Lilles, a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas. He and his lovely wife, Agnes, are blessed with three children and live in California, where he is the Academic Dean, and Associate Professor of Theology, St. John’s Seminary,… Continue reading The Word and Silence – SpiritualDirection.com
Life Always Wins. Follow Me – Issue 111: Spotlight
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our “Harmony” issue in July, 2021. Japanese cuisine is so varied and refined that it’s hard to happen upon something unpleasant to the palate. My personal procedure in Japan is to take a… Continue reading Life Always Wins. Follow Me – Issue 111: Spotlight
The Most Popular RAND Research of 2021
The year began with a deadly attack on American democracy. On January 6, a mob of insurrectionists, persuaded by falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, attacking law enforcement officers and calling for the sitting vice president to be hanged. And while 2021 was the year of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines,… Continue reading The Most Popular RAND Research of 2021
Why The First ‘Summit For Democracy’ Should Be The Last
Authored by Branko Milanovic via ConsortiumNews.com, More than 100 nations’ presidents, prime ministers, and kings met virtually at the Summit for Democracy on Dec. 9 and 10. It was the first meeting in history on this scale where the application — or ostensible application — of the democratic principle in the governance of national affairs was used as a criterion… Continue reading Why The First ‘Summit For Democracy’ Should Be The Last
What Hot Dogs Can Teach Us About Number Theory
Notice that shifting a remainder of 7 up by 1 makes it 7 + 1 = 8, and if a number has a “remainder” of 8 when divided by 8, it’s actually a multiple of 8, so its remainder is really 0 mod 8. This means that the system of congruences x ≡ 1 mod 5x ≡… Continue reading What Hot Dogs Can Teach Us About Number Theory
Helping People Affected by Conflict: Q&A with Jacqueline Burns
Jacqueline Burns joined the U.S. Air Force because she wanted to help people, face to face, on the ground, whose lives had been torn apart by conflict or disaster. She was still in training when the attacks of 9/11 changed the mission. Burns, now a senior policy analyst at RAND, spent 12 years as an… Continue reading Helping People Affected by Conflict: Q&A with Jacqueline Burns