September 25, 2021

The End of Cash & a New Meaning to Higher Education

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The End of Cash? Some experts are suggesting that Americans should stop using cash, especially larger denominations. William Lastrapes, PhD, Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia, believes that eliminating cash would cut down on illegal transactions and reduce tax evasion.
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New Meaning to Higher Education Then, marijuana use among college students has risen over the past five years to historic levels, while their alcohol consumption is dropped. Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains the possible reasons.
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An Internet Apocalypse? And, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, PhD, from the University of California, Irvine recently authored a report that concludes that a severe solar storm could plunge the world into an "internet apocalypse" that keeps large swaths of society offline for weeks or months at a time, by damaging long undersea internet cables that connect continents.
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