Saturday, December 09, 2023

9: Israel



How Britain Put One of the World’s Best Health Care Systems on Life Support
The Timeless Investing Wisdom of Charlie Munger, Buffett’s No. 2
The Oct. 7 Warning That Israel Ignored Israel knew about Hamas’s plan more than a year before the attack took place.
Fighting to Govern Myanmar, From a Teeny Office in Washington The National Unity Government of Myanmar, formed as an alternative to the junta that orchestrated a 2021 coup, has to battle global apathy and ignorance as it struggles for recognition.

Wednesday, December 06, 2023

6: Everest



An Impact Series Interview with Ashutosh Tiwari
The ChatGPT Hype Is Over — Now Watch How Google Will Kill ChatGPT.
China’s economic problems are growing
Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley?
Where the Universe Began A half-century ago, a radio telescope in Holmdel, N.J., sent two astronomers 13.8 billion years back in time — and opened a cosmic window that scientists have been peering through ever since.


France Scoffs at an Englishman’s ‘Napoleon’ French critics considered Ridley Scott’s new biopic lazy, pointless, boring, migraine-inducing, too short and historically inaccurate. And that’s just to start........... Augustin Ampe, 20, said he was all for demystifying Napoleon, but this was just too much. “Here he looks like a clumsy man focused only on his wife,” said the literature student, breaking for a moment from a fierce debate over the film’s failures with his friends. He preferred the mythical figure offered in the books and poems of Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo, he said.

Beside Ramaswamy, a Doctor Who Listens More and Debates Less Apoorva Ramaswamy, a surgeon and cancer researcher, has balanced weekdays in hospitals with weekends on the trail, with their young sons in tow.