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Charlie Munger, despite being 98 years old, is without doubt one of the smartest minds that lives today. From a young man who simply dreamed of financial independence, he’s now worked alongside Warren Buffett to not only become a multi-billionaire but als…

Every man, woman, and child. The world’s largest buyer of coffee, the US, has to import nearly all of this as the coffee trees from which caffeine is harvested will only grow at commercial levels between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn in…

It matters that there’s a volcano. It matters. It matters a lot because that’s, um, 75% of the identity of this place. The volcano is present; the volcano is breathing. The, uh, the volcano really is a living creature. It’s a bit of a romantic representa…

What happens if the Earth suddenly stops rotating? A thing that isn’t attached to its surface remains at its initial speed—not just cars, buildings, and people, but also water and our atmosphere—causing giant tsunami waves and global windstorms. Areas ne…

I’m not sure what I expected to find when I went to Chernobyl. I mean, it’s been so long since the nuclear reactor there melted down and spewed radioactive atoms across the land. So for almost thirty years, this place has been virtually abandoned. These d…

So Kelly, you know we all shop online, but there’s some sites that you know and you use a lot, and they usually already have your credit card stored, and I use those. But every now and then, I buy things from sites that I might not be as familiar with. An…