“China is not a scary place. It is many things, but scary is not one of them. If you are interested in doing business in China, just go…. Like entrepreneurship—and maneuvering through Chinese street traffic—it is a lot scarier to contemplate than to do.”
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Each year, Steph Yiu and her friends visit a national park together. Here, she compiles 10 things she’s learned — with stunning photos and videos — from her adventures in Yellowstone National Park.
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall Think Progress is crowing that “even deniers” confirm an average satellite measured temperature rise of 0.12c / decade. My response is – so what? Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record Global Warming The planet just had its hottest 12 months on record. The people who deny the facts of climate […]
via Think Progress: We’ve found some global warming! — Watts Up With That?
Donald Trump Announces Economic Policy Team: 13 White Men Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced his economic policy advisory team on Friday — a collection of 13 white men…(read more) Trump Made Up An Entire News Story On Iran — And He’s Standing By It
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Joel Gay is the CEO of Energy Recovery, a California-based firm whose technology helps recycle the energy wasted during processes such as fracking and cleaning water. At 38, he is one of the youngest black CEOs of a public company. He is also No. 13 on Fortune’s latest 40 Under 40, a list of young…
via How an ‘Insufferably Arrogant’ Kid Transformed Into a 38-Year-Old CEO — Fortune
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, adding he would hold a fundraiser for the Democratic candidate at his house in Miami later this month. Most tech executives–with the prominent exception of PayPal pypl co-founder Peter Thiel–have backed Clinton. Hewlett Packard Enterprise hpe CEO Meg Whitman, who has run for office as a…
via This Telco CEO Just Announced an Endorsement and Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton — Fortune
When thinking of the “best” university in the world, does your mind automatically jump to an Ivy League like Harvard, Princeton, or Yale? If it does, think again. According to a new global list, The University of Oxford in England is now considered the world’s best university. Oxford, a university dating back to 1096, took…
via An American University Is No Longer the Best in the World — Fortune
“To miss the joy is to miss all.”—William James My daughter’s friends used to play a game with fortune cookies. They’d break open their designated cookie, read their special message and then add the phrase “in bed” to the end of it. For example, “You will inherit an unexpected sum of money”…in bed. Or “This […]
via Today’s fortune:Anything you damn well please is possible — Pam Grout
At We Are the Mutants, editor-in-chief K.E. Roberts traces the history of the first Lord of the Rings paperbacks — and J.R.R. Tolkien’s resistance to them — and the establishment of fantasy as a popular genre.
“China is not a scary place. It is many things, but scary is not one of them. If you are interested in doing business in China, just go…. Like entrepreneurship—and maneuvering through Chinese street traffic—it is a lot scarier to contemplate than to do.”
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Sig Nordal 