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Tourism and toilets

I recently ran into an old chum from my hometown. We hadn’t seen each other in over 30 years. All those years have to go somewhere. For most of us they go into work. With this in mind, I ‘m going to reel in the years, stow away the time, and ponder my decades of working in the...
Posted On Mar 09 2018 06:00
, By Ed Stephens Jr.

Costs and benefits

The term “cost-benefit analysis,” once the purview of textbooks in economics and finance, is a common term these days. As the name suggests, it basically means making a decision by weighing its downsides (costs) against its upsides (benefits). This might seem like a childishly...
Posted On Mar 02 2018 06:00
, By Ed Stephens Jr.

Yes, we have no chicken

A screw-up of international proportions hit the business news a few days ago: It was reported that most of the 900 or so KFC outlets in England and Ireland stopped operations because they ran out of chicken. The chicken shortage was a result of “teething problems” with KFC’s new...
Posted On Feb 23 2018 06:00
, By Ed Stephens Jr.

How cold is it?

It’s a law of physics that there’s cold, and then there’s Korea cold. Korea cold is a whole ‘nuther thing. The cold is, not surprisingly, a common theme in the coverage of the winter Olympics. This provides a good excuse to rehash a favorite math trick....
Posted On Feb 16 2018 06:06
, By Ed Stephens Jr.
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