Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

The Titanic was really a cover for a highly classified military operation to investigate two nuclear submarines that we lost during the Cold War with all hands: the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpio. They ironically turned out to be on either side of where…

Guess what, Aluxer? People waste your time a lot of the time. You may notice sooner rather than later. You might only notice once they’ve taken a big chunk of it. And the worst, you may never notice. You might be giving your time and effort to people who …

This cosmic calendar compresses all of the last 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang into a single calendar. Either every month is a little more than a billion years, every day a little less than 40 million. A single hour is almost 2 million years. That …

[music playing] NARRATOR: This rugged border land between England and Wales was the scene of many battles over the centuries, and it’s a place with a rich tradition of ghost stories. Sal Masekela and historian Davit Mills Daniels are on the trail of Engl…

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I had known about this story for decades. The disaster of 1871 was one of the things that basically ended Yankee whaling in the early 20th century because it was such a devastating loss. What was still there, if anything, was still there, was a question t…