Despite this bare-bones set up, Kinsella is one of the world’s leading experts on nematodes, of which an estimated half a million species exist. He’s also 83. Since parasite varieties are so numerous, parasitologists like Kinsella are sometimes the only expert on a specific...
If the Fed can keep inflation running at 5% to 10% annually for several years, while convincing people it doesn’t exist or is transitory, the pension funds can earn zero real return and still make their 6.5% return assumption. Of course, the real payout to the beneficiaries will be d...
Most blood-feeding animals, though, do not pose a serious threat to humans. In fact, bloodsuckers are vital to the health of our planet. Mosquitoes are an important food source for birds. Fish eat leeches. Even sea lampreys, which areinvasive to the Great Lakes, canbring essential nutrient...
Which of the following is an example of parasitism? A) Leeches consume the blood of their host B) Ticks that live on dogs C) Aphid insects eat the sap of the host plant D) All of the above Define codon and anticodon. How do they interact?
more specific spins on this analogy but the point is, updates are used to patch a spectrum of leaks as well as add to or deprecate portions of the app (more on this later.) These leaks can range from an innocuous drip to a gaping hole that’s pouring in dozens of leeches every ...
In a day where you have partisanship in the U.S., where you have what’s happening between the U.S. and Israel, or Israel and Iran, the whole thing is that if these people don’t start accepting that the other has a right to exist we might be heading toward the end of the world...
He didn't mention when exactly it became a human right: at the dawn of civilization (when no one lived over thirty), during feudalism (when the village blacksmith was also the tooth surgeon), during the industrial revolution (when everything was treated with leeches), or just recently...
coming close to retirement. The cheaper offshore resources have never really worked with those people. Novices who work closely with masters become journeymen and eventually masters themselves. Right now there’s a big problem that the next wave of master craftsmen at many c...
The more we keep reinforcing this unconscious belief that nonprofits are leeches, the more restrictions put on us, the less effective we will be in tackling society’s growing problems. Funders have to accept that nonprofits are partners, not parasites, or our communities lose. Yes, of course ...
Also, as I explained earlier, even a 100% reserve requirement would not limit bank lending. Heck, even a 200% reserve requirement wouldn’t do it.Bank lending is not limited by reserves.So-called ‘fractional reserve” lending does not functionally exist. A bank with zero reserves could lend...