William E. Douthat

In late August of 1992, tens of thousands of passengers sat in their cars in what was one of the worst traffic jams the country had ever seen. Miles of cars lined up along the Interstate 95 highway in Miami-Dade county desperately trying to escape the destruction behind them. As hurricane Andrew made landfall, the governor of Florida warned South Florida residents to either evacuate their homes or board their windows and prepare for the worst hurricane the state had ever expe

In the late 1800s, two of the world’s most famous inventors, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, were each engrossed in radical new devices that they hoped would change the lives of everyone living then, and everyone to live subsequently. Edison, the more famous of the two, would go on to be much more successful in this feat than his distant apprentice Tesla. Edison arguably changed the world more than any man before him with his invention of the incandescent light bulb, and whil

During a discussion I had with a friend about current economic conditions and excessive money printing, he asked in a satirical manner “has anything that bad ever really happened because of inflation?”  ​ “Have you ever heard of something called World War II?” I quipped back. ​ While not the direct cause, hyperinflation across Weimar Germany greatly exacerbated the anger the german population had towards the banking system, which at the time was run largely by Jewish citizens

The term Silicon Valley was born from a computer science journalist by the name of Don Hoefner in an article written for one of his local electronics publications. With the term he aimed to describe the multitude of companies whose products were made possible by their electronic transistors of which silicon was the main element. Not until the 1980s, though, did the term alter from a scarcely used word to a commonality in the jargon of the electronics industry. The popularity