How to Build Generational Wealth

Generational wealth is wealth that parents or grandparents pass on to their children and grandchildren. Having generational wealth can provide financial stability and opportunities for children, grandchildren, and even more generations in the future. But money is not the only valuable element of this type of intergenerational inheritance, says Taylor Kovar, CFP and chief executive…

What Is Fuzzy Logic? Definition, Meaning, Examples, and History

What Is Fuzzy Logic? Fuzzy logic is an approach to variable processing, where the same variable can process multiple possible values for truth. In essence, Fuzzy Logic is an attempt to solve problems where the available data and rules of engagement are open-ended, imprecise and ill-defined in nature, yet return a plausible range of accurate…

What Is Moral Suasion? Definition, How It Is Used, and Example

What Is Moral Suasion? Moral suasion is ‘persuading people or groups to act (as toward charitable giving, personal hygiene, social reform) by rhetorical appeals and persuasion rather than by coercion or physical force’, to quote the OED. In economics, it tends to refer to central banks. Key Takeaways Moral suasion attempts to bring about a…

Insects Are Outsmarting Malaria Nets – and It Could Have Severe Consequences

Insecticide treatments effective against malaria also suppressed household pests, but resistance among these pests has led to their return, causing community distrust and a decline in the use of these malaria control methods. Credit: Photo courtesy of Matt Bertone, NC State University. A North Carolina State University study reveals that resistance among household pests to…

Yvette Cooper condemns ‘thugs’ rioting in Southport and urges respect for police

Crowds clashed with police outside a Southport mosque on Tuesday night, following Monday’s attack, in which three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club. The unnamed 17-year-old suspect in the case is from Wales, Merseyside Police has said, but false claims had spread online that he was an asylum seeker who had arrived…

The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars

Scientists have long queried how the complex molecules needed for life could have formed around the tumultuous and violent environment of the sun in its youth. A family of meteorites called “chondrites” is theorized to have delivered the right stuff for life to Earth. But the question is, how did complex organic molecules containing elements like…

‘Historic’ Counter Terrorism investigation leads to life sentence for Anjem Choudary

An international police investigation involving the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) working with law enforcement from North America has led to the jailing of the radical preacher Anjem Choudary for directing a banned terrorist group. The joint-Met Police and MI5 investigation into Choudary was assisted by the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Royal…

Islamabad court sends PTI’s Raoof Hasan, 9 others on 14-day judicial remand in social media case – Pakistan

An Islamabad district and sessions court on Tuesday sent PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan and nine others on 14 days’ judicial remand in a case on the party’s alleged “anti-state digital campaigns”. Hasan was arrested last week during a raid conducted by the Islamabad police and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the party’s Central Office…