Meet Henry and Ronya Balogun, the proud parents of David Balogun, who was just 9 years old when he made headlines as one of the youngest high school graduates in the US. The Baloguns took a unique approach to nurture David’s exceptional intelligence, breaking away from conventional methods. When David was only 6 years old, Read More…
Year: 2024
This 11-YRS Cowgirl Made History Competing At The First Nationally Televised Black Rodeo
Meet Kortnee Solomon, a fourth-generation Texas cowgirl who was only 11 years old when she competed in the first nationally televised Black rodeo back in 2021. Kortnee, who was born and raised in Texas, comes from a family deeply rooted in rodeo history, according to Andscape. Her mother, Kanesha Jackson, is an 11-time invitational champion, Read More…
Middle School Math Teacher and Her Husband Create Hip-Hop Math Curriculum
Award-winning middle school teacher Keziah Finney and her husband, James, are the creators of Lyrical Math, an innovative curriculum that connects hip-hop culture with math. It is a research-based and data-proven math intervention program that builds confidence and mastery for students. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Finney is a Certified Mathematics and Science Teacher with Read More…
Raising Prices On Goya Product
Goya food products are seen in a supermarket in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 10, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (Reuters) Rising food prices have been one of the most visceral reminders of red-hot inflation, which has created severe financial pressures for most U.S. households. Food prices accelerated to a new four-decade high this summer, forcing Americans to Read More…
The 401(k) Industry Now Has A ‘Lost And Found’ For Your Old Retirement Accounts
Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group and Alight Solutions — three of the largest administrators of 401(k) plans — are teaming up to reconnect workers with savings left behind at old employers. Current rules allow employers to move accounts of less than $5,000 out of their 401(k) plan. The firms account for about 40% of total investors Read More…
$150,000 Amazon Engineer vs. $300,000 Google Engineer
The difference is in the company culture. PhotoMIX Company @pexels I started my software engineering career at Amazon in 2020 and later joined Google in 2022. Amazon and Google are both profitable tech giants with several successful products: Amazon: Amazon.com, Kindle, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Prime Google: Google Adsense, Google Cloud Products, Youtube It goes Read More…
the wind, the sea, and me
In the heaving seas of the Southern Ocean, a small, red-hulled sailboat tossed and rolled, at the mercy of the tail end of a tempest. The boat’s mast was sheared away, its yellow sails sunk deep in the sea. Amid the wreckage of the cabin, Susie Goodall sloshed through water seeping in from the deck, Read More…
Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power
Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the “Maxim of Extravagance” By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza I noticed it recently when I scheduled my dog for a veterinarian’s appointment. The person who answered the phone was friendly enough and greeted me warmly, and then I made my request. I’d like to make an appointment Read More…
Can I Sue My Landlord? His Friend Posted My Name And Picture Online
What exactly do you want to sue your landlord for? You are quite naturally being evicted since you haven’t paid rent for year, and you think that you can use a true statement about your actions posted by someone other than your landlord as a defense to avoid eviction, or even to sue your landlord?! Read More…
A Student Asked Her Cosmology Professor The Meaning Of Life.
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.” Credit: Annelisa Leinbach; Jr Korpa, Robin Schreiner / Unsplash Key Takeaways Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) Department at CIIS in San Francisco, CA. In this excerpt of his book Cosmogenesis, Swimme recounts a time one Read More…