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Rare Earths Aren’t Rare, with Julie Klinger-Ep. 254

“Rare earths aren’t actually rare, nor are they earths,” Julie Klinger told me. Julie is an associate professor at UW Madison and literally wrote the book on rare earth elements—Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. I interviewed her last week, the day after Trump signed a rare

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Feeling Steady?

I talk to clients in the machining business almost every day. I often ask the perfunctory question, “How’s business?” and I usually get the perfunctory

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Grecian Earn

I’ve probably been complicit in tax fraud. Certainly not illegally; I’ve always paid Uncle Sam every dollar he says he’s owed. Where I suspect I

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Immigrants Welcome

Just got back from Spain and Scandinavia last week, traveling on business with a little bit of pleasure thrown in. During my travels it was

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French Vanilla

Emanuel Macron is the new President of France. He is a political newcomer who saw an opening in a divided dispirited country of 80 million

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Goodbye Columbus

I found last week’s Precision Machining Technology Show (PMTS) in Columbus an exhilarating and exhausting experience. It was exhilarating because for the first time in

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