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Numberscruncher: Earthquakes
On Saturday, another devastating earthquake hit, in Chile, and that gives us another chance to look at some of the numbers associated with earthquakes and rebuilding. The Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude
Read More »Numberscruncher: Cheap Trick Takes On Nielsen SoundScan
Cheap Trick, the pride of Rockford, has a new CD out called The Latest. It’s been released through Tunecore , a service that makes it easy for bands to sell downloads of their music
Read More »Numberscruncher: Wither the European Union?
Abraham Lincoln was born 201 years ago last week. He was America’s greatest president because he took charge in a time of crisis, a civil war that seems unimaginable in these days of splitting
Read More »Numberscruncher: Who Wants to Be a Small-Town Arts Entrepreneur?
This country is full of gorgeous old houses in places where the cost of living is negligible. For $149,000, you can have a five-bedroom brick center-hall colonial house on the North Side of Youngstown,
Read More »Numberscruncher: Making Money on Elections
February 2 is Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney and Election Day in Illinois. We have a lot of hot contests here in the state because our governor, who took office after Rod Blagojevich resigned, is
Read More »Numberscruncher: Getting Value from Intellectual Property
Sita Sings the Blues is a great, sad movie about a breakup. The creator, Nina Paley, mixes animation styles and narrators, using the story of the Hindu gods Rama and Sita in the Ramayana.
Read More »Numberscruncher: Haiti, Foreign Aid, and Foreign Trade
Americans like to stress about our current account deficit. Even if they do not know the terms of the amounts, they worry about the fact that we export much less than we import, that
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