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To Protect Or To Not Protect  In Wrestling, at the middle school, high school, and college level you are to wear protective headgear to protect your ears, and to reduce blows to your head. Often times, you buy whichever one … Continue reading →

To Protect Or To Not Protect In Wrestling, at the middle school, high school, and college level you are to wear protective headgear to protect your ears, and to reduce blows to your head. Often times, you buy whichever one … Continue reading →

Working Hypothesis 1: Cauliflower ear in wrestling can be significantly reduced by removing the use of headgear in general, making it so wrestlers are uncomfortable in ear – ear or head – ear contact. Working Hypothesis 2: Cauliflower ear in … Continue reading →

“There is no dining-room table—when they bought the house years ago, they thought they’d finish it up real nice like they did with another house, before the war, but nobody’s up for that now, so we all huddle around the … Continue reading →

The Crazy Idea Of Money Since the first introduction of Stone Money, I have dove deeper and deeper into what money is. It comes in many forms, from paper, a number on a screen, to coins made of metals, precious … Continue reading →

In an attempt to show us how fundamentally strange money is, in Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, says that “how societies move from monies with intrinsic value (commodity currencies, like salt, or coins made … Continue reading →

It seems counterintuitive to use sanctions against Iran to force them into dismantling their weapons, because of the effect it had on South Africa. Sanctions made South Africa create their bombs and they used billions of dollars in the program, … Continue reading →

1. Cauliflower ear in wrestling2. The use of headgear in wrestling and cauliflower3. The uses of different types and brands of headgear against cauliflower ear.4. If both players wear headgear the number of wrestlers with cauliflower ear will significantly decrease.5. … Continue reading →