If you are in need of a lesson on just how much things have changed in the last 60 years, an anecdote from my childhood might suffice. My grandfather was a junk man, augmenting the income from his ...

There are traces of precious metals hiding in all kinds of things around us. There's gold in your old computer parts. There's platinum in dirt on the side of the road. Turns out there's silver in ...

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