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• I once asked a ranger in King’s Canyon National Park how giant sequoias die naturally. (Since some of those trees are thousands of years old, I was wondering if they ever die naturally at all, or have to ...
  September 13th, 2007 Great Answer (5 ) Answer to Does a tree ever lose its balance?
• Technically, it’s not an acronym. Acronyms are words rather than just a collection of letters – like SCUBA, NAFTA, NATO, etc vs. abbreviations like ATM, HTML, etc. IPA is an abbreviation, unless people go around saying that they ...
  January 10th, 2008 Great Answer (2 ) Answer to What does the acronym "IPA" stand for in the context ...
• @ Hossman – your comment is kind of funny. If you read Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz’s Monetary History of the United States, you’ll find a rich history of unfortunate monetary events under the gold standard, mostly in ...
  January 16th, 2008 Great Answer (1 ) Answer to Book recommendation on Keynesian economic theory?