The Arbitrage Life: Speller Gets Another Shot at G-R-E-A-T-N-E-S-S
Published on 06/03/2022A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully appealing that he was denied relevant root information about a word.
Elvis Fleeing Vegas as C and D Letters Fall
Published on 06/02/2022Las Vegas chapels of love that use Elvis Presley’s likeness could find themselves becoming Heartbreak Hotels.
The Sky is Falling: Big Tech Edtion
Published on 06/01/2022After years of screaming higher, almost regardless of what the economy was doing, tech-oriented stocks are tanking and dragging down the rest of Wall Street.
Don't Mess with Texas?
Published on 06/01/2022Mama said if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the internet, but some social media platforms do their best to enforce exactly what mama said.
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Elon in Trouble Again
Published on 05/31/2022Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of engaged in “unlawful conduct” aimed at sowing doubt about his bid to buy the social media company.
Presidential Tech
Published on 05/26/2022With all of the hoopla going on with the Dutch Prime Minister and his Nokia phone, it’s interesting to see what our world leaders use as their smartphone of choice.
They'll Sell Anything on the Black Market. ANYTHING.
Published on 05/25/2022The black market is usually something associated with buying and selling illegal things that can sell quickly, like drugs or weapons. Never would we have thought that there was a black market for spiders.
ICYMI: Activision Blizzard, National Guard Unionizing
Published on 05/24/2022Video game workers at a division of game publisher Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a large U.S. video game company. And, The Department of Justice has given the green light to National Guard members on active duty for their states to join labor unions, despite a U.S. law that makes it a felony for military personnel on active federal duty to unionize.
Dutch PM In Trouble Over Old Phone
Published on 05/23/2022The long-serving Dutch prime minister is in hot water over his low-tech cell phone. Mark Rutte is facing unusual political and public pressure after revelations that he has been deleting text messages about official matters for years
ICYMI: Twitter Philanthropy on the Rise
Published on 05/20/2022Online direct giving is nothing new – for years, people have used sites like GoFundMe to get money for medical expenses, funeral costs and other unforeseen bills. But Bill Pulte’s approach is nearly instantaneous.
The Arbitrage Life: Robbed Ring Returned to Rightful Recipients
Published on 05/20/2022A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece.
The Arbitrage Life: Moon Plants!
Published on 05/19/2022For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if it could be used to grow food by the next generation of lunar explorers. The results stunned them.