Resource Insights

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, March 1.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. The fall of the Berlin Wall was to bring about one, integrated world market where goods and services...

John Hess, CEO of Hess Corporation, a large U.S.-based independent oil producer, recently told a Houston audience where he's putting the...

We may be about to see the sad fruits of so-called just-in-time (JIT) inventory systems applied to hospitals in the United States and elsew...

Celebrities can sue you if you use their likeness or name for promotional purposes without permission, and normally, you must pay a fee to d...

I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, January 26.

The 1973 dystopian science fiction film "Soylent Green" is set in the year 2022, just one year after a nonfictional Finnish compa...

The American obsession with Iran is about oil and natural gas. If these two resources had been absent, it is hard to imagine such an intense...

Epistemology is the study of how we know things. All of us cycle between two main ways of knowing in our modern culture: 1) the rational, re...

A recent article on undersea mining in The Atlantic brought back a detailed childhood memory. When I was in fifth grade, my class put on a...