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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Jefferson Cowie's Freedom's Dominion in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Freedom's Dominion" by Jefferson Cowie delves into the complex history of early 19th-century Alabama, focusing on the struggles between the Creek Nation, the state of Alabama, and the federal government. The book highlights the enforcement challenges of the Treaty of Cusseta, aimed at protecting Creek lands, and the broader...
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Get the Summary of Thomas E. Woods and Jay Bhattacharya's Diary of a Psychosis in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Diary of a Psychosis" by Thomas E. Woods and Jay Bhattacharya provides a critical examination of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors question the effectiveness and necessity of lockdowns, mask mandates, and other restrictive measures, highlighting the inconsistencies in public...
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Get the Summary of Martin Luther King Jr's Where Do We Go from Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Where Do We Go from Here" by Martin Luther King Jr. delves into the complexities of the civil rights movement post the Voting Rights Act of 1965, highlighting the evolution of the struggle from seeking basic decency to true equality for African Americans. King critiques the superficial support of white allies...
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Get the Summary of Chris Hedges's Our Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Our Class" by Chris Hedges is a profound exploration of the author's experiences teaching college courses in East Jersey State Prison. Hedges, a former New York Times reporter and ordained Presbyterian minister, delves into the lives of his incarcerated students, revealing the transformative power of education and the arts within the...
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#1 On October 15, 1586, Queen Mary of Scots was on trial for treason. She had been accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in order to take the English crown for herself. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, planned to prove that Mary was at the heart of the plot, and was therefore equally culpable and deserving of death.
#2 The plot to...
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#1 The first astronauts were chosen in 1959. They were military test pilots who were eager to fly in space. They were terrified of public exposure, but they were willing to accept it to fly in space.
#2 When World War II ended, Gus was discharged from the Air Force. He married Betty in 1945, and the couple began their life together in Mitchell. But jobs were scarce,...
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#1 Johnny von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician and scientist who was born in Budapest in 1903. He was the first of three sons born to Miksa and Margit, educated, well-to-do parents who were plugged into the city's dazzling intellectual and artistic life.
#2 The First World War would precipitate the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The von Neumann brothers were held as...
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#1 The wives were constantly on the phone trying to find out what had happened. The wives would phrase it as if they thought something had happened to their husbands, when in reality, they just wanted to know whose husband it was.
#2 The final news that a wife receives is usually delivered by a man with some authority or moral standing. The protocol is for the husband to bring the...
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#1 The media regularly promotes the idea that animal agriculture is the biggest contributor to climate change. However, this is completely false.
#2 In 2020, many people around the world heard the call to reduce or eliminate meat consumption. The proportion of UK meat eaters who reported having reduced or limited the amount of meat they consume rose from 28 percent in...
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#1 I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was constantly getting into trouble, and I dreamed of adventure. I eventually joined the Army National Guard at age 17, and went off to basic training between my junior and senior years.
#2 I loved flying, and I was good at it. I was eventually cleared to solo, and on my way to becoming a pilot. I was having the...
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#1 The drums communicated information. They were not just instruments of signaling, like the bugle and the bell in European cultures. They could convey a small set of messages: attack, retreat, come to church.
#2 The drums were not just signaling tools, but also a means of communicating large amounts of information.
#3 The first crack in the hitherto solid assumption...
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#1 Designers have been relegated to the business of making pretty pictures, but now that UX is everywhere, we are thrust into the limelight of product development with our own ideas forming a critical part of the puzzle.
#2 I began my career in UX by interviewing for jobs as a marketing manager. I enjoyed interviewing others about their work, and I loved to talk about...
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#1 The choice of where to live is often made based on the most beautiful place on earth. For me, that is Moab, Utah. I don't mean the town itself, but the country which surrounds it.
#2 I woke up before sunrise and looked out the window at a scene dim and vague with flowing mists. Outside, the ground was covered with snow. It was cold as a tomb, a jail, or a cave. I lay down on the...
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#1 We were flying over Rocky Mountain National Park, thirty miles to the northwest. Our pilot, David Kunkel, was navigating with the help of an iPad Mini. People don't usually think altitude is affecting them, but if you ask them to count backward from a hundred by sevens, they have trouble.
#2 I looked up Kunkel on Google and was dismayed to discover that he had landed...
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#1 FAs are using a new technology, called Next Best Action, to improve their services and provide better outcomes for their clients.
#2 FAs are using a new technology called Next Best Action to improve their services and provide better outcomes for their clients.
#3 FAs are using a new technology called Next Best Action to improve their services and provide better...
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#1 Mervin Kelly, the boy who would become the author's grandfather, was a striver. He was both class president and valedictorian in high school, and people in Gallatin noticed that he was intent on being in charge.
#2 In the early 1900s, when Kelly was going to school, few Americans recognized the differences between a scientist, an engineer, and an inventor. The public...
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#1 Mossad is the most intriguing intelligence service. It operates on behalf of a country that is surrounded by enemy states, and its citizens are constantly threatened by war. Nevertheless, they are the best intelligence service in the world.
#2 The CIA may have more technical resources, but no intelligence service is more feared than Mossad. The popular view of its...
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#1 The 2011 earthquake in Japan struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was designed to withstand a large earthquake, but not a 50-foot tsunami. The reactor was severely damaged, and many feared that the uranium inside would explode like an atomic bomb.
#2 A nuclear bomb is made when a nuclear reactor blows up. In a nuclear reactor, the uranium is typically...
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Get the Summary of David McCullough's The Great Bridge in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Great Bridge" by David McCullough chronicles the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, a monumental feat of engineering led by John Augustus Roebling and his son Washington. The book delves into the technical challenges, such as the innovative use of caissons and the dangers of caisson disease, as well as the political...
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