The inflation genie is now out of the bottle, and central bankers meeting recently in Jackson Hole, Wyo., found many culprits to blame for inflation: pandemic disrupted supply chains, slower rates of technological change, productivity challenges, demographic transition, Vladimir Putin’s ...
On June 21, the Metaverse Standards Forum was launched by its 35 founding members, including Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cesium, the Web3D Consortium and the Web 3d Consortium. Noticeably missing among these founding members, however, are tech giant Apple, gaming ...
It is time for a little honesty about the state’s new Education Freedom Account program and who is benefitting from the use of the state’s tax dollars. The program was sold as a way to provide the best education model for individual students outside the public school system. Under the ...
Bjorn Lomborg runs the think-tank the Copenhagen Consensus, where he offers a non-traditional analysis of global challenges from disease and hunger to climate and education. For his work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. He joined ...
In Great Britain, residents are facing energy bills soaring by more the 100 percent, costs so high the new prime minister is considering a freeze on energy prices. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has warned her nation’s businesses about the risk of energy “rationing” this ...
For teachers and librarians, returning to school means getting students back to stories. Stories matter, and they make a difference in our lives. Often, the jarring stories are most magnetic and make lifelong readers. An angry little boy sent to his room for punishment finds it transformed ...
