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Inflation: Everybody’s Enemy

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  What is inflation? Inflation is the rise in prices compared with what they were earlier, such as a year ago. Aren't prices always rising? Nearly always. The price of a good depends on several things: the prices of materials, rent and labor. These prices can rise for many reasons, and when they rise, the prices we pay go up. Why does that become a problem? It's a problem when prices rise too fast when the cost of your groceries is more than it was last year - but your pay didn't go up. Inflation becomes your enemy because retail prices don't always fall when prices of production fall. Today's high prices become the basis for future inflation. How does inflation happen? Many factors can lead to higher inflation. War is one example. The war in Ukraine is fought by Russia and Ukraine, but the war affects most of the world. Primary reasons are the costs of food and energy. Russia supplies most of Europe's energy. Both Russia and Ukraine provide a lot of the grains ...

What you see is what you think, change it

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  “Think Different,” said the famous 1997 Apple advertisement. Excellent advice, obviously, to all creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs. But, along with thinking differently in order to come up with revolutionary new ideas or products, there is also seeing differently. Great creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs look at the world in ways that are different from how many of us look at things. This is why they see opportunities that other people miss. The story of Velcro is well known. A Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, decided to look more closely at the burrs (seeds from plants) he found clinging to his clothing after a walk in the woods. He took out his microscope and saw that nature had designed hooks on the burrs, which had then attached themselves to looped fibers in his clothing. The famous hook-and-loop alternative to the zipper, under the name Velcro, was born. (Today, there is a whole field, called biomimetics, devoted to imitating nature in order to solve human prob...

How To Make Homework Less Stressful

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  How To Make Homework Less Stressful  Homework. It’s the bane of all students’ existence, and for a good reason. We are often subject to unnecessarily grandiose amounts of after-school agony, hindering our personal lives and passions. It feels like a hopeless situation — being confined to the grasp of the nonchalant school system for the remainder of our education. However, there is resistance to be found. Sit up straight and pick up your pencil because here are five simple strategies to power through your homework with ease. Less Thinking, More Doing Writing notes is an undoubtedly tedious task, but it doesn’t have to be. Whenever you need to copy large blocks of text the following strategy will help you save time and assist your memorization. First, skim over the sentence you’d like to write, and ensure that you remember at least half of it. Then, write it out without glancing at your book or screen until you are on the last word you can recall. At this point, you should re...