Study: GMOs increase crop yields, reduce ag toxins

February 21, 2018 • by Bruce Edward Walker

Study: GMOs increase crop yields, reduce ag toxins

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February 21, 2018

Are we entering an apprenticeship renaissance?

Due to a range of cultural pressures and government incentives, the four-year college degree has become somewhat of a rite of passage in economic life. From the prompts of parents and teachers to the prods of student-loan subsidies, we are routinely encouraged to double down on a cookie-cutter approach to higher education. Continue Reading...
February 21, 2018

5 Facts about Billy Graham (1918–2018)

The Rev. Billy Graham died today at the age of 99. Here are five facts you should know about the man who became the world’s most famous Protestant evangelist. 1. In 1934 at the age of 16, Graham was turned down for membership in a local youth group because he was “too worldly.” Continue Reading...
February 20, 2018

How marginal utility affects consumer choice

Note: This is post #69 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics. When we buy a good or make a decision about how to use our time, we do so because we believe we are getting some sort of value from our choice, such as a sense of happiness or satisfaction. Continue Reading...
February 20, 2018

How entrepreneurship transforms a village

As we were walking down the street of a small village within Barahona in the Dominican Republic, we met a woman living in a humble home with her family. She had constructed a metal box out of scraps found discarded near her village, Algodon. Continue Reading...
February 20, 2018

Video: Book Discussion on Kuyper and Islam

We’ve got video available of last week’s book launch discussion about Abraham Kuyper’s travels around the Mediterranean Sea. A portion of his travel record has been published as On Islam as part of the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. Continue Reading...
February 19, 2018

The Oxfam scandal is about more than sex

Oxfam released its internal report on the Haiti scandal Monday, exposing that the controversy enveloping the agency was deeper and more expansive than previously known. In addition to the details already made public, the report states that allegations of fraud, negligence, sexual harassment, nepotism, and accessing pornography on an Oxfam computer led to four firings and three resignations. Continue Reading...