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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
At a gala for gastrointestinal cancer research in Miami in 2024, a woman approached a podium and gave a speech that, at the time, hardly anyone outside the room fully understood. Attorney and patient advocate Yekaterina “Katie” Chudnovsky informed the gathered guests that the couple had contributed to a $23…
Some billionaires are attention-seekers who attend conferences, participate in interviews, and appear to be incapable of withstanding the lure of a camera. Among them was Leonid Radvinsky. For the majority of his adult life, the Ukrainian-American businessman who surreptitiously created one of the most profitable and contentious platforms on the…
A spiral timeline depicting the entire history of human technology was created by Max Roser at Our World in Data. Stone tools at the center mark the beginning of it 3.4 million years ago. The spiral’s rings each stand for 200,000 years. Before our ancestors discovered how to control fire…