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Does Money Have Value? I always believed that the money I had in either my bank account had value. My belief was true to me until I was introduced to the story about a Carolina island named “Yap” where their … Continue reading →

On the small island of Yap located in Micronesia, large limestone disks the size of cars are what they use for their currency. Sounds weird, don’t y0u think? Ironically though, the most illogical form of currency is a bit more … Continue reading →

Money is an interesting aspect to life. When asked what money is, most would suggest that it is a thing, and point to their wallet or the paper money in their hand. This is true for any civilization; we all … Continue reading →

Money: a Complex and Sometimes Intangible Force We cannot typically pay for a pair of shoes with a sandwich, but there is an ingeniously powerful thing that allows us to essentially transform shoes into sandwiches, or any given thing into … Continue reading →

Stone Money and the Cows To think that the monotonous day in and day out effort it is to get a paycheck deposited into an intangible place. To think that the number projected on the screen or the print out … Continue reading →

It seems counter intuitive that in an attempt to purify figure skating in the olympics it actually backfired on the olympics committee. Bruce Bower elaborates the results in his article on the subject called ” Figure Skating Judges get a … Continue reading →

The Daily Shower Can Be a Killer It seems counter intuitive to find true causes of death in something that is colloquially viewed to be healthy, such as taking a shower. Jared Diamond discusses in his brief article the concept and execution of “Constructive … Continue reading →

Belief: The Engine That Runs Economies The Yap are an island people who use limestone crafted currencies called fei. These are no ordinary, coin-purse sized rocks. Fei for large purchases can be taller than an NBA point-guard and wider than … Continue reading →

Click to access Halmos.pdf It seems counterintuitive that mathematics, a highly structured and rigorous discipline, could be considered a creative art. But this is precisley what is is argued by P. R. Halmos in his essay “Mathematics as A Creative … Continue reading →

1) It seems counterintuitive that among what we know as a species could lie two or more entirely separate species but it is apparently the case. Through DNA sequencing, researchers like Markus Pfenninger and Klaus Schwenk, are able analyze the … Continue reading →