The Conversation: Voting By Blockchain Could Add New Risks To Our Elections — Including Making It Easier To Buy Votes

We all know multitasking can kill your productivity. But there are ways to do it more effectively, if you change how you’re thinking about it. Many of us define a successful day as one where we get a lot done. To check more tasks off your to-do list, it’s tempting to try multitasking, but that’s a counterproductive strategy.

With Congress polarized and gridlocked, new federal wetland-protection laws are unlikely to be enacted in the next several years. Wetlands aren’t the most eye-catching ecosystems. They include swamps, bogs, fens, and other places where soil is covered by water most of the time. But they perform a huge range of valuable services, from soaking up floodwaters to filtering out pollutants and providing habitat for thousands of species of mammals, fish, reptiles, insects, and birds.

PLATTEVILLE — An anonymous letter, signed by someone calling themselves Richard Marks, appeared in mailboxes in December throughout the Bebee Draw Farms neighborhood in Weld County, telling neighbors they were swindled in a secretive land deal approved by an elected board that oversees the 186-home subdivision. That board, known as the BeBee Draw Farms Authority, sold approximately 400 acres of open space owned by the community for $10 to REI LLC, the company that built the subdivision and had plans to add a second phase.

Recently I received multiple unsolicited copies of a new book “The Holy Grail of Investing” written by none other than motivational speaker Tony Robbins. Not only was I surprised to get so many copies of the same book, but I also learned that Robbins is now in the financial industry. When I picture Robbins, I tend to think of sports-arena-sized crowds and “You can do it!” messaging.

Advocates for unhoused people argue these kinds of anti-camping laws effectively make homelessness a crime. Should cities be allowed to outlaw sleeping in public, even when there are no beds available in local shelters? This is what the U. S. Supreme Court will decide in its review of the case Grants Pass v.

Enlarge / Map from drone mission search for the Encephalartos Woodii in the Ngoye Forest in South Africa. (credit: CC BY-NC) “Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life. He was talking about Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a plant from South Africa.