Harry Shannon
If you grew up in the UK before 1971, you had to learn how to cope with your money, which was divided into pounds, shillings, and pence (pennies). The abbreviation is Lsd (or £sd), after the Latin names.
I hadn’t realised before, but according to Wikipedia this was a system once used across Western Europe. There were 12 penc…
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Who is most at risk for COVID-19?
Harry Shannon
Data just released show that “Black people and other people of colour make up 83 per cent of reported COVID-19 cases while only making up half of Toronto's population.”
Quick now – how many times more likely are these racialized people to get COVID-19 than the rest of the Toronto population, i.e., white people? 1 ½ ti…
How to be a Philanthropist – Part 2: A Look at Some Numbers
Harry Shannon
This post follows up Part 1 - An 11 Step Guide.
Recently, MacKenzie Bezos, newly divorced from Amazon's Jeff Bezos, promised to give at least half her $36.6 billion fortune to charity. In what must be the understatement of the year, she noted "I have a disproportionate amount of money to share."
Bezos had just si…