State and federal estate and inheritance tax rates are what drive most people’s estate plans, but now that tax rates are falling and exemptions rising in many jurisdictions, how much people will leave their heirs isn’t what keeps them awake at night anymore. What they really worry about is how...

Lama Thubten Wangchen sings a healing mantra chant at Renata Beffa’s house on Sunday, Feb. 19. (Courtesy of Edgar Mora) Recommended: A day with Lama Thubten Wangchen Traveling throughout the world in search of happiness, self-consciousness, peace and union has always been a constant in ...

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The division of the UK's Daily Mail Group that publishes the Daily Mail newspaper is reported to have a staff of around 3,800 people. For a newspaper of its size it's made a howler of an error - and apparently no one has seen fit to correct it. Yesterday, Friday 19 May 2017 the Daily Mail publ...

On July 14th, 2009, Italian bloggers will muzzle themselves in the Web as well as in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7PM where they will meet to protest against an Italian government bill (the Alfano decree) introducing a number of new rules which will limit the freedom of expression in Italian in...

This is Son & Heir  He has always been a most interesting person. When he and Girly Girl were tiny they had a language all their own. They’d jabber away at one another and Scott and I couldn’t understand a word. I’ve read that twins do that. And they were practically twins, for a whi...

Although the internet has certainly come a long way since the days of the dot-com bubble, it still has a long way to go. Here Mark Mulligan looks at what he considers to be the internet's 'adolescence', and what will happen when greater regulation catches up to internet companies. ____________...

St. Francis High School, faced with a teachable moment, chose censorship instead. [Paul Neubauer, the St. Francis principal, removed from a school hallway a controversial photo from a play showing a simulated flag being torn. Then he prevented its publication with an article about the removal in...

The 2016 election, and its aftermath, is less about millennials as a group than what Richard Florida, over a decade ago, called the “creative class.” The creative class consists, as an old comic from college recounts, of those people “accused of wealth and guilty of education.” Anyone in a cre...

Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that Clinique, a top cosmetics brand, has revised its in-store selling strategy. The brand changed from a high-service, pressure-selling approach to a softer, hands-on approach that lets the shopper play. This new type of shopping environment is know...

This past weekend in St. Louis, MO, Orrin and Laurie Woodward, Tim and Amy Marks, and Terri and I were recognized with awards from Networking Times Magazine for contribution to the industry. We sincerely appreciate this gesture, and the excellent work Chris and Josephine Gross and the rest of th...

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Streaming is increasingly the new normal of how consumers listen to music; and according to the RIAA, streaming brought in just over half of the US music industry’s revenue in 2016. But where does the other half of the money earned come from?

Drew Silverstein CEO of Amper Music, a music composition platform run entirely by artificial intelligence, shares his thoughts on the future of AI in music, and how it will continue to shape the music industry as we move forward. _________________________________ Guest post from Synchblog We...

Reducing the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals, replacing them where possible and re-thinking the livestock production system is essential for the futureof animal and public health. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the world’s most pressing public health issues an...