That was my message last week, opening the North Carolina Association for Medical Research (NCABR ) “Bridging the Gap” conference for a diverse room of university faculty, PhDs, and, most importantly, dedicated K–16 STEM educators from across North Carolina. I started on the water. For years I sailed Buzzards Bay — shaped like a funnel, wide and deep at the mouth, narrow and shallow at the head. Out at the mouth, a stiff wind is easy; the swells are long, and you have time to

My question for the week…If your server makes $22+ an hour, do you still tip 20% or more? Seattle's minimum wage goes to $22.14/hour in January 2027. And unlike most of the country, Washington State doesn't allow a "tip credit." Every server, bartender, and busser gets the full minimum wage in cash; tips come on top of that. (As a point of reference, NYC has a “tip credit,” so NYC's base minimum for servers is $11.35, almost half of Seattle's. So the cost of living, although

Everybody wrote the tribute. Me: The more I read, the more I learn. Greg Abel runs Berkshire now. Howard Buffett is chairman and runs nothing — no operations, no capital allocation, none of it. Howard's father, Warren, put it this way: "Greg runs the company; Howard will guard its culture and values." So they split the job in two. One guy runs it. One guy guards what it is. Which made me ask — who had Howard's job before Howard? Nobody. Not separately. Warren was chairman AND

Doing what I enjoy the most! Empowering young minds to be curious, to engage and embrace what's new and what "scares" them at times....

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