Word of the Day: Cord Blood

Should you store or bank cord blood when you have a kid. As a source of stem cells for your kid, or his/her siblings, or you?

Word of the Day: Rehab

Rehab, as in rehabilitation. Alcohol rehab. Drug rehab. Are there other common kinds? Relationship rehab? Co-dependency rehab?

Words of the Day: Gas and Electricity

Gas as in natural gas, the power source. As a substitute for electricity, in certain cases. That's why I think these words are associated, for purposes of this puzzle. Gas electricity price comparison is an important consideration for businesses and other consumers. Not to mention renewable energy.

Word of the Day: Recovery

This one is not financial or legal related. I mean here data recovery. As in hard drive recovery. Or server data recovery. Oops my hard drive crashed. What kind of data was recovered from Edison Chen's hard drive?

Word of the Day: Trading

Trading also can mean many things, but on the Internet, it tends to mean financial trading. Like E*Trade. Or TD Ameritrade. Trading stocks, bonds, ETFs.

Word of the Day: Claim

You would need to disambiguate this one in a dictionary or Wikipedia as well, but the main meaning I intend here is a legal claim. Such as a claim to a piece of land. Or quit claim deed. Or personal injury claim. Or accident claim.

Word of the Day: Degree

Take this to mean what you will, temperature scale, whatever, but on the Internet, this makes you think of academic degrees. Like online school, PhD, certifications, whatever. So think about what kind of degrees you have. And what you want.

As time goes on, educational degrees go more from teaching real skills that contribute to value and the economy, to mere positional/signalling devices that determine distribution of a fixed pie. So says Peter Thiel, who has two degrees. From Stanford. Another reason for change/revolution.

In the midst of stagnation, education has become a status game, "purely positional and extremely decoupled" from the question of its benefit to the individual and society.

George Packer, Profiles, “No Death, No Taxes,” The New Yorker, November 28, 2011, p. 44

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