Noon To Noir

By Eric Le Roy

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Content 18+ As we study history together, I often show documentary films to my students. When these films are about the distant past, there is a voice (or person-moderator) who walks us through the information, using whatever illustrations can be mustered. But as we get nearer to modern times the documentaries come to life: actual human action in black and white. From the late 19th … Read the rest

The Perils of Plastic

How Credit Cards Can Turn Your Wallet Into a Black Hole (and How to Escape It)

Content 18+ Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, there lived a finance professional named Charlie. Charlie was as astute with numbers as Isaac Newton was with gravity. He knew how to dissect a balance sheet with the precision of a surgeon. Yet, Charlie had one Achilles’ heel: an insatiable Read the rest