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 A worker shortage might be excellent news for the economy! Maybe, just maybe, firms will awake and see workers' substantial contribution to their success. Includedmoney take unconscionable sums and destroy their firm's value, unlike many frontline workers who create value. During the pandemic, CEOs took vast sums as they laid-off workers. Some firms sought bankruptcy protection, but hat didn't stop their greedy CEOs from snatching hefty bonuses. We have a worker shortage and firms are scrambling to hire whomever is willing. Some firms, like McDonalds have paid signing bonuses. Canada's Loblaw and its competitors paid a bonus to frontline workers when the pandemic began. They stopped it after three months in unison with their competitors. When government confronted them about this collusion, they claimed it happened independently. Go figure! It's like you caught your three-year-old with her hand in the cookie jar and she said, Mom, "Cookie Monster did it!...

 treasure trove of bewitching and bewildering planets has been found circling distant stars beyond our Sun. Of these bizarre worlds, there is a class of massive gas-giants termed hot-Jupiters, that stand out in the crowd as some of the strangest planetary beasts of all. Hot Jupiters circle their roiling parent-stars fast and close in roasting orbits and, as such, they are much too hot to sustain life. These enormous, exotic "oddballs" are fascinating, as well as mysterious, and nothing like them exists within our own Solar System. In January 2020, astronomers announced their new observations showing that the hottest of them all is also the weirdest. Indeed, this hottest known hot Jupiter, dubbed Kelt-9b, is classified as an "ultra-hot Jupiter." The broiling tormented giant world suffers planetwide meltdowns that are so severe that they rip apart the molecules that compose its exotic atmosphere which contains ionized atomic iron and singly ionized titanium. As an u...

 There is a distant, dim domain of everlasting twilight in our Solar System's outer limits, where our Sun can glow gently with only a faint, feeble fire. This faraway region is named the Kuiper belt, and it is the home of the dwarf planet Pluto, its large frigid moo n, Charon, and a multitude of other frozen objects that include a dancing sea of icy comet nuclei. Fragile and ephemeral, comets that come streaking inward towards the brilliant light and melting heat of our Star, are the fleeing refugees from this remote region of perpetual dusk. In February 2020, planetary scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, and beyond, announced that data collected from this mission are providing new insights into how planets and planetesimals--the building blocks of planets--were born in our primordial Solar System. The New Horizons spacecraft soared past the ancient Kuiper belt object (KBO) Arrokoth (2014 MU 69) on January 1, 2019, providing humanity with its very first close...

 Myriad sparkling stars light up the billions of galaxies that dwell in the observable Universe. The observable, or visible, Universe is that relatively small domain of the unimaginably vast Cosmos that we are able to observe. The light traveling to us from more distant regions has not had enough time to reach us since the Big Bang. This is because of the expansion of Space, and the universal speed limit set by light. No known signal can travel faster than light in a vacuum, although Space itself can, and so the very secret of our existence may reside in regions of Spacetime that are far beyond the horizon of our visibility. The galaxies of the Cosmos are far away and mysterious, and the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104) stands out in the crowd as one of the most bewitching and bewildering of its starlit kind. In February 2020, a team of astronomers announced that evidence derived from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) indicates that the Sombrero's many weird and unexplained attribute...