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3 Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economic Science (From People Who Weren’t Economists)0
- Economics
- July 30, 2018
Since it was introduced in 1968, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to 79 individuals for their contributions to different branches of economics. Yet not all of them were economists by training. Here are three contributions that earned their authors the Nobel Prize in a field that wasn’t initially theirs. 1.
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Free Student Seminar: America’s Founding Principles 0
- Culture
- July 30, 2018
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) only 12% of high school seniors are proficient in U.S. History. If that number isn’t bad enough, 55% of seniors lack just a basic understanding of U.S. History and only 1% are considered advanced in their knowledge of U.S. History. Yes, it’s that bad. We wish we could snap our fingers and fix
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3 Things You Need to be Friends with People You Disagree With 0
- Culture
- July 27, 2018
I spent the past weekend relaxing with old friends. While it was a busy weekend, we had plenty of time to catch up. Over the course of the weekend, we discovered how much we have changed in just a few years. We live very different lives and hold very different—I would even say opposing—views on
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5 Ways My Life Fell Apart When My Smartphone Broke 0
- Culture
- July 27, 2018
You never realize how much you take something for granted until you lose it. I had a rude awakening to this truth when my smartphone decided to go on the blink a few days ago. 1. I was an hour late to work Unaware of the looming fate of my phone, I plugged it into
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My 25th Wedding Anniversary Is This Week. Here’s the Secret to a Happy Marriage.0
- Culture
- July 27, 2018
To commemorate my 25th wedding anniversary this week to my husband, Jesse, I asked readers on Facebook to share their own secrets to a long happy marriage. In short, the crowdsourced recipe for marital endurance includes faith, forgiveness, romance, kindness, selflessness, and a healthy dose of humor. A union built to last begins with a
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What We Can Learn from Katy Perry’s Depression 0
- Culture
- July 27, 2018
Superstar Katy Perry’s 2017 album Witness sold “only” 180,000 copies the first week it went on sale. Expectations dashed, Perry fell into a depression. She explains her overwhelming disappointment, “I have bouts of situational depressions and my heart was broken last year because unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the
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3 Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economic Science (From People Who Weren’t Economists)0