China’s History Introduction - MIT
An introduction to China’s history from MIT.
Security with AI agents: new problems keep emerging.
Since 1991 the government has amassed a sovereign-wealth fund worth $2.2trn, or $400,000 for every one of Norway’s 5.6m people. Proceeds sustain one of the world’s most generous welfare states.
more than 70% of unskilled service workers (think baristas and call-centre staff) born in Norway have masters degrees.
These are some truly astonishing facts.
从细胞到自我意识：生命的层层阶梯共同构成思想这种东西 (Chinese)
Beautifully and abstractly written.
Why Everyone Hates the Ivy League
Speaking of living in your own bubble—this is also a classic example of bureaucracy, where a committee is needed to conclude a well-known fact.
Jim Whittaker, First American to Summit Everest, Dies at 95
first as a climbing guide and rescue leader, and later as the first full-time employee of Recreational Equipment, or REI
With her and their two sons, Whittaker lived on a sailboat for four years in the late 1990s, traveling around the Pacific with stops in Tahiti, Fiji and Australia.
What a life he had.
Also, during the 1963 American Everest expedition, Tom Hornbein reached the summit via a non-conventional southwest route. The large couloir on the west side of Everest’s north face is named after him (the Hornbein Couloir).