The last week of October, Bill Gates ( net worth : $138 billion) celebrated his 66th birthday in a cove off the coast of Turkey, ferrying guests from his rented yacht to a beach resort by private helicopter.
The world's richest person, Elon Musk (net worth: $317 billion), did not attend. He was most likely in Texas, where his company Space X was preparing for a rocket launch. Mark Zuckerberg (net worth: $119 billion) wasn't there, either, but the day after Mr.
SF Cal Academy of Sciences film: Space eels and Daveed Diggs
Details: Opens Friday; Morrison Planetarium at California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; timed reservations and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test required; daytime admission (includes access to planetarium) $30-$37.50; https://www.calacademy.org/
Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert | EurekAlert!
image: Deposits of dark silicate glass are strewn across a 75-kilometer corridor in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. New research shows that those glasses were likely formed by the heat of an ancient comet exploding above the surface. view more
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silicate glass.
Exploring, Monitoring and Modeling the Deep Ocean Are Goals of New Research - UT News
AUSTIN, Texas — A team led by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin is attempting "to boldly go where no man has gone before": the Earth's deepest oceans.
In the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss," a search and recovery team is tasked with finding a lost U.S. submarine that has vanished somewhere deep in uncharted waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Job Opportunity: Senior Staff Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute | Planetary News
The Universities Space Research Association's Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, TX, invites applications for a full-time staff scientist.
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences, Geosciences (e.g., Geology, Geochemistry), Astrobiology, Astronomy, Physics or related relevant fields, ideally with at least 10 years of experience as a scientist. The candidate must be a U.S.
Why a Winning Value Fund Likes Amazon and Real Estate Services Stocks | Barron's
It's a sad fate that befalls numerous value investors: buying cheap stocks that screen as highly attractive on a variety of valuation criteria, then watching them stay frustratingly cheap as declining fundamentals justify their discount.
Chloé Zhao Upends the Marvel Formula With 'Eternals' | WIRED
It was summer 2018, the day before the director was supposed to hit the road to film her next small indie film. Zhao was in a conference room at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, pitching a Marvel movie.
In Hollywood parlance, Zhao sold it in the room. "It wasn't until that pitch that we solidified that we were even going to do Eternals ," Feige says.
Country diary: A frightful fungus worthy of an Edgar Allan Poe tale | Environment | The Guardian
I have come on an annual pilgrimage, this autumn afternoon, along a muddy track under a tunnel of trees, in search of two toadstools that fire the imagination. One is almost extraterrestrial in appearance, the other a Halloween horror story from the underworld.
Each began when barely visible underground hyphae coalesced into an egg-shaped object on the soil surface.
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In Opinion "Elon Musk doesn't think visionaries like him should pay taxes the way little people do," @PaulKrugman… https://t.co/aCsbn2Cejz nytimes (from New York City) Tue Nov 02 16:45:08 +0000 2021
Now Elon Musk is worth 3 times as much as Warren Buffett, some fun with valuations. Berkshire produces the highest… https://t.co/C0qgxSY30Z johnauthers (from New York) Tue Nov 02 14:25:08 +0000 2021
Why do people with more money than anyone can use insist on keeping it all? Read the latest from @PaulKrugman. https://t.co/XfdaOV7d7n nytopinion (from NYC, London, Paris, Hong Kong) Tue Nov 02 16:36:30 +0000 2021
Elon Musk has the resources to change the world. Instead, he's too busy trolling. Millions are on the verge of sta… https://t.co/wftzizdgTU TorontoStar (from 1 Yonge St., Toronto, Canada) Thu Nov 04 01:35:01 +0000 2021
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