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Guest opinion: Exercise science

Ha! I knew it! I knew there was something fishy about exercise and now I’ve got the science to prove it! I’m sure everyone has experienced time slowing down or speeding up. Meetings that involve graphs and flowcharts exert a powerful gravitational well that slow down time so much that ...

Guest opinion: The political economy of national debt

It is now a tradition in the United States Congress that whenever the new national budget and the national debt limit come for approval, politics get mixed up with economics. In 2007-08, when the country faced high unemployment and low inflation, Tea party and other conservatives wanted to ...

BALDERREE: Will President Trump make Utah America’s top fintech hub?

Utah has become a major hub for the growing financial technology (or “fintech”) industry, which covers everything from cryptocurrencies to digital wallet services like ApplePay. “We hope in the not-too-distant future, you’ll see a massive fintech center in downtown Salt Lake, and ...

COOPER: Understanding the value of America’s Constitution

With America’s Constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional Convention occurred in 1787, several years after the Revolutionary War. In addition to addressing the errors that long plagued ...