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Moby Dick

Good News! Beware of White Whales

Hermann Melville's Moby Dick which was published in 1851 - five years after the peak of the US Whaling Industry and eight years before the first ...
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physics

Good News! The ‘Unreason’ in Math and Money

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner understood the complexities of math but was baffled by its 'unreasonable' effectiveness in explaining natural phenomena like motion and electricity.  ...
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Michelangelo's Pieta

Good News! Investment Lessons from Il Gigante

Il Gigante, twice discarded due to its flaws and awkward shape, lay like a washed up carcass on a beach - a 19 meter Carrara marble ...
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Notre Dame on Fire

Good News! Investment Lessons from Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame on fire (image courtesy of FranceToday.com) The Queen of Cathedrals has lessons for investors today.  She has stood on an island in the ...
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Night Sky in Wyoming

Good News! More Honest Words Seldom Spoken

The combination of clear mountain air and expansive night skies in Wyoming's Jackson Hole may be responsible for the clearest account of Central Banking in ...
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the sky in Chelsea

Good News! Volcanos, Irony and Investing

In 1815, Mount Tambora, in modern day Indonesia, erupted spectacularly, sending about 10 cubic miles of rock and dust into the atmosphere.  Heard from over 2,600 ...
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superconductor

Good News! LK-99 Changes Everything

In a dimly lit laboratory, the grey-black crystalline substance sat unremarkable in the petri dish, nothing but a dull rock to an untrained eye. But ...
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Good News! Oh Canada!

As a December baby, I was always the smallest among my school friends.  Nobody picked me first for hockey or for football.   I’m not complaining though, ...
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a door

Good News! Einstein’s Error

In the castle of the Enlightenment, the door between faith and science had stood open since the middle ages.  Philosophers oiled the rusted hinges of the ...
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Good News! The Dog that Didn’t Bark

Canadians have watched in morbid fascination as housing prices march inexorably higher.  The real estate sector had already been hot when the Bank of Canaday dropped ...
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Good News! Not Dead Yet

The African Lungfish is a miracle of evolutionary adaptation.  Equipped with both lungs and gills, the fish can survive out of water.  African Lungfish are known ...
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Glen Running

Good News! The Greatest Drug

My first relay race started off badly.  I was the only one of my three person team on the field when the starters' horn blared!  ...
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