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Refilling the pool- how immigration and diversity enriches us all.
Dan Connors
  • May 11, 2021
  • 4 min

Refilling the pool- how immigration and diversity enriches us all.

The St. Louis region is stagnating, as the 2020 census will soon reveal. Much of the problem starts at the core- the city of St. Louis. ...
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Bill Gates on Climate Change
Dan Connors
  • May 8, 2021
  • 8 min

Bill Gates on Climate Change

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Bill Gates, 2021 Billionaires are running our world,...
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Refugees, genocide, and human rights.  What should be done?  What can be done?
Dan Connors
  • May 2, 2021
  • 5 min

Refugees, genocide, and human rights. What should be done? What can be done?

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power 2019 What is America's place in the world? Does our exceptionalism give us a...
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Hooray For Hollywood?
Dan Connors
  • Apr 25, 2021
  • 6 min

Hooray For Hollywood?

What is the United States most important export to the world? Corn? Soybeans? Computers? None of these. Our most important export is...
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What have we learned from Covid-19?
Dan Connors
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • 4 min

What have we learned from Covid-19?

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Fareed Zakaria 2020 The Covid-19 epidemic may well turn out to be a transformational event for...
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Think you know it all, eh?  Think again bucko!
Dan Connors
  • Apr 17, 2021
  • 7 min

Think you know it all, eh? Think again bucko!

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Adam Grant 2021 How do we know what we know? Can we be...
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White men-  Heroes or entitled mediocrities?
Dan Connors
  • Apr 15, 2021
  • 4 min

White men- Heroes or entitled mediocrities?

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Ijeoma Oluo 2020 We like to think that in some important way that the world...
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Dopamine- the spark of creativity and addiction
Dan Connors
  • Apr 11, 2021
  • 4 min

Dopamine- the spark of creativity and addiction

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human...
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Here's how to stick it to Jeff Bezos
Dan Connors
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • 3 min

Here's how to stick it to Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos- the richest man in the world is at $188.6 Billion and counting. He makes approximately $321 million per day and rules an...
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Superstore- Bigger, better, and more real than The Office
Dan Connors
  • Mar 28, 2021
  • 4 min

Superstore- Bigger, better, and more real than The Office

Superstore- NBC/Hulu 2015-2021 I've been a huge fan of television comedies since the days of Get Smart and Gilligan's Island, and have...
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McDonald's, Amazon or Convergys- are today's employers stressing us out?
Dan Connors
  • Mar 21, 2021
  • 6 min

McDonald's, Amazon or Convergys- are today's employers stressing us out?

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane Emily Guendelsberger 2019 How does your job treat you these...
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The multiplier effect- how one check can help many people.
Dan Connors
  • Mar 16, 2021
  • 4 min

The multiplier effect- how one check can help many people.

"Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."...
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Caste- The cruelest pyramid scheme
Dan Connors
  • Mar 7, 2021
  • 7 min

Caste- The cruelest pyramid scheme

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson 2020 There are three glaring examples in history of castes that divided nations-...
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The Upswing- Are we finally nearing the bottom of a century -long historical cycle?
Dan Connors
  • Feb 20, 2021
  • 6 min

The Upswing- Are we finally nearing the bottom of a century -long historical cycle?

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Robert Putnam 2020 “All of history, a great wheel,...
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The Future We Choose?
Dan Connors
  • Feb 15, 2021
  • 5 min

The Future We Choose?

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac 2020 For all of history, mankind has seemed...
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May 1940- When the whole world went mad and one man stood up to inspired us all.
Dan Connors
  • Feb 14, 2021
  • 7 min

May 1940- When the whole world went mad and one man stood up to inspired us all.

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson 2020 On May 10,1940 Winston Churchill...
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Surviving Death
Dan Connors
  • Feb 6, 2021
  • 6 min

Surviving Death

Death. We all avoid thinking about it or talking about it because it's unknown and scary. But there's something about winter that makes...
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Post Corona- How will our world change?
Dan Connors
  • Jan 31, 2021
  • 5 min

Post Corona- How will our world change?

Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Scott Galloway 2020 Our world has been changing rapidly for decades...
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Why we need consequences for being wrogn
Dan Connors
  • Jan 30, 2021
  • 5 min

Why we need consequences for being wrogn

Was a secret cabal of Satan-worshiping, cannibalistic pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring about to be exposed and...
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30 Hours with Obama- A Promised Land Reviewed.
Dan Connors
  • Jan 26, 2021
  • 7 min

30 Hours with Obama- A Promised Land Reviewed.

A Promised Land- (Presidential Memoirs part I) Barack Obama 2020 Generally I tend to shy away from autobiographies, because I see...
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