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I loved The Burial on Amazon Prime. Not because it’s a great movie but because it serves as a cinematic representation of my academic paper with Eric Helland,…

A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, computers, and the internet—these technologies radically changed the world. Still, the trend growth rate of GDP per capita in the world's frontier

While critics question the fairness of the bail bonds industry, proponents argue that its services save states money and keep defendants from fleeing.

Opponents of carbon pipelines are asking Iowa’s new utility regulators to take their objections to heart.  The new look, three-member Iowa Utilities B

Opponents of carbon pipelines are asking the state's new utility regulators to take their objections to heart. The three-member Iowa Utilities Board c

Research shows that consumers refuse to cooperate with nanny state planners.

The remaining $127 million dollars in American Rescue Plan funds are going to be released to South Dakota.  Mary Staddick Smith is the Deputy Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Education, she discusses how the state will use the money. Faith Bottum is a graduate of South Dakota Mines and has been selected as the 2021 Rago Fellow for excellence in journalism. This grants her a 9-month internship with the Wall Street Journal. Physicist Hugh Lippincott is one of a cadre of scientists coa...

Rise of the 10X Class The "robber barons" of the 21st Century are the people who used to sit next to you at the office. The Split Everyone is worried about the concentration of economic power in the hands of a small number of people. This discussion is usually focused on tech billionaires and the companies they created — Amazon, Google, Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Apple, Twitter, and even Tesla. But a less conspicuous class is about to amass vast economic power. That class is composed o...

A new amusement park could be coming to Wisconsin Dells but it will need further approval from the city and state before construction can start. The Wisconsin Dells Plan Commission approved a conditional use permit and site plan for Lower Dells Adventures, LLC to construct the first phase of an outdoor amusement park at its meeting Monday. Lower Dells Adventure LLC Owner Adam Makowski presents his plans to construct The Land of Natura amusement park on over 70 acres of property near the lower W...