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Stop Wasting Water! New Study Reveals How to Get People to Conserve – And It’s Not Just About Money
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 30, 2025 – As droughts worsen and water shortages hit communities worldwide, a new study in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis has uncovered a smarter way to get people to save water – without breaking the bank.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Tech Update: Rental Beast, Delta Media, zavvie, and CoreLogic

Tech Update: Rental Beast, Delta Media, zavvie, and CoreLogic

Real Trends, July 12, 2020

A new service developed for Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) will make up to 8 million rental listings available to real estate agents and brokers nationwide for the first time. Rental Beast, the leading all-in-one online rental listing service, is launching a new program that will enable MLS agents and brokers to connect with more Millennials and tap into $12 billion in annual rental commissions.

Does Financial Education Work? Depends On Who's Talking.

Does Financial Education Work? Depends On Who's Talking.

Indianapolis Recorder, July 9, 2020

Financial education courses are easy to find online, along with countless podcasts, webinars and videos from people who say they understand your financial stress and how to get out of it. Success stories are also easy to find, as any program would want to amplify those, but the aggregate picture appears bleak. Numerous studies seem to show financial literacy programs just don’t work, where almost every measure of what it means to “work” comes down to changing behavior.

 

Study of Baseball Data Shows First Impressions About Performance Can Have Long-Term Impact

Study of Baseball Data Shows First Impressions About Performance Can Have Long-Term Impact

Augusta Free Press, July 12, 2020

First impressions count, as any job seeker knows. New research now shows that such early appraisals can shape your career for years, long after they stop being valid. Marshall Vance, assistant professor of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business, co-authored the study, “Do first impressions last? The impact of initial assessments and subsequent performance on promotion decisions,” with Dirk Black, of the University of Nebraska. Their study is forthcoming in the journal Management Science. 

The Time Is Right for People at High Risk to Shelter in Place

The Time Is Right for People at High Risk to Shelter in Place

Morning Consult, July 10, 2020

Surges of new infections in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona and other Southern states are prompting some governors to threaten shutting down their states again. Images of people crowded into restaurants and sunbathing on beaches not wearing face masks is disquieting to many. Will such behavior bring about a tsunami of hospitalizations and deaths like what New York experienced in April?

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