Quotes of the Day

During crypto hype, mining equipment such as ASICs becomes incredibly expensive. At the beginning of 2018, for example, they were priced at over $9,000 due to high demand. That’s why you must consider your return on investment before getting yourself involved in mining; sometimes simply buying cryptocurrencies makes more sense than mining them does. The cost of the electricity used by mining computers far exceeds the cost of heating or cooling the house. [2019] - Kiana Danial

The only savings vehicle that has absolutely no tax liability is a TFSA. Your government pension--OAS or CPP--will be taxed. So, too, will your company pension plan. When you take money out of your RRSP or your RRIF, you will have to pay tax on that money. And even your unregistered assets will incur a tax liability on the return they earn or on their sale if you make a profit. [2013] - Gail Vaz-Oxlade

One of the cancer-fighting innovations is CAR T-cell therapy, in which doctors remove immune system cells from a patient's blood and add a gene that allows the cells to bind to proteins on the patient's tumor. Another immuno-oncology approach, checkpoint blockade therapy, quashes the ability of cancerous cells to evade detection by our immune system. CAR-T therapy and checkpoint inhibition are less than a decade old. DNA-sequencing technology has also offered us an opportunity to understand the evolution of a specific patient's cancer. [2019] - David A. Sinclair

In a study that looked at the effect of strength training in 62 frail seniors, the subjects who did only strength training for 6 months gained no muscle mass. Another group of subjects was given protein supplementation (via a protein shake); those subjects added an average of about 3 pounds of lean mass. The extra protein likely made the difference. Similar results have been found in multiple other studies, although it remains unclear whether protein supplementation helps to improve muscle "strength" as well as muscle mass. We don't store protein in the way we store fat (in fat cells) or glucose (as glycogen). If you consume more protein than you can synthesize into lean mass, you'll simply excrete the excess in your urine as urea. [2023] - Peter Attia

Average household size is used to help determine the proper unit mix. If you lean that the average size is 3.7 persons per household, then pursuing a building with a mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments won't work. [2017] - Bryan M. Chavis