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Amen to educating youngsters. I have never forgotten the day that my high school math teacher asked the question "If you had $10,000 dollars right now, what would you do with it?" Someone said they would buy a truck, and he proceeded to teach us about compound interest, contrasting the ever...

I'm partial to index funds, in particular from Vanguard, but that may not be what you will want to use. I would advise you to read Investing For Dummies by Eric Tyson, which gives a good overview of the basic investing options (stocks, bonds, real estate etc.) I find his advice to be very...

I tried that arrow trick once when I was a kid, it seemed like a good idea until I let go and then the idea occurred to me that it could come down on me. Luckily it just stuck in the roof of my parents' house.

Why are archaeologists always depressed? Their life's work is always in ruins.

Several of the species that we currently hunt were teetering on the edge of extinction when Teddy Roosevelt took office. Without the conservation policies that he enacted, I wonder if we might have lost some of them?