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The L-Curve of Income Distribution

The world’s income distribution, especially evident in the U.S. is not a “Bell Curve”, it is an “L-Curve”. Never heard of this before? Well that’s not surprising, as this would never be revealed on stock market publications or any level of government or corporate media but instead on an off the beaten path website called https://www.lcurve.org which takes data from the US Census Bureau, The Internal Revenue Service, and the Economic Policy Institute and translates it brilliantly into a very basic graphical representation which is easy to digest.

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What is Spirituality?

To give a simple yet accurate answer to what spirituality is we must first accurately define what spiritual is: A standard milk toast definition of spiritual is "of related to the spirit" which is a lukewarm definition at best. Our personal definition of spiritual is... drumroll.... "full spectrum nature." If you respect and appreciate nature, and don't want to degrade or hurt it, you are evolved enough to appreciate the spiritual world

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Sturgeon's Law: 90% of Everything is Crap

"Sturgeon's Law" is a quite hilarious and cynical observation named after him as a response to criticisms about the quality of science fiction literature during his lifetime which concluded in 1985. Probably during some late night conversation with a fellow sci fi lover they came to the co-conclusion that 90% of sci fi is crap, and then he applied that to 90% of everything. Hence Sturgeon's Law states: "90% of everything is crap."

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An Introduction to the Seven Liberal Arts

The seven liberal arts (from Latin liberalis "free" and ars "art or principled practice") are a classification of knowledge that dates back to ancient Greece. They consist of the "Trivium" which is comprised of the study of grammar, logic, & rhetoric in that order and the "Quadrivium" which is comprised of the study of arithmetic, geometry, music, & astronomy in that order.

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