Saturday, May 11, 2024
The idea of infinity seems distant. However, we live in a world created by an infinite God, and if you look closely enough, little fragments of His infinite nature are replicated in the patterns of the finite nature we live in. One of the most concrete, and perhaps beautiful, examples […]
On October 8, 2021, 136 countries agreed to a global minimum tax rate of 15%. It is now up to Congress to approve the deal, but US lawmakers are divided. Proponents suggest that the global minimum tax will end tax competition, where large corporations avoid paying higher taxes in their […]
Oil is one of the greatest necessities in the modern world. Few industries impact civilization so thoroughly as its production, which yields fuel, medicine, detergent, plastic, and other daily particulars. Yet oil mining operations encounter complexities that affect each of these key markets. In addition, while a rig supervisor is […]
No matter how much equestrians may pride themselves on being able to ride a horse over all sorts of brightly colored obstacles and through intricate patterns, whether lunging forward at the gallop or collected into the floating yet powerful piaffe (demonstrated by the worldwide champion above), if a horse doesn’t […]
At 828 meters high, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)’s Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building. The company’s structural engineering teams not only innovated the buttressed core system for the tower’s skeleton, but also produced the Cayan and Pearl River Towers in Dubai and Guangzhou, respectively. These marvels of metal […]