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The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour From left: Jim Walton, Alice Walton, Jim's wife Lynne McNabb Walton, Rob Walton's wife Melani Lowman Walton and Rob Walton. Photograph: Rick T. Wilking / Stringer The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1. The World’s Wealthiest Family Makes $4 Million Every Hour

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

AUSTIN, Texas — Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to the latest findings from the National Study of Learning Mindsets published A Growth Mindset Intervention Can Change Students' Grades if School Culture

How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling. At Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe in Denver, Kate Kavanaugh trimmed the sinew from a deep-red hunk of beef the size of a bed pillow. The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers - The New York Times

Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s abducted women, killed them, and had sex with their decomposing bodies. You have more in common with a psychopath than you realise | Aeon Essays

Nodes is your thinking space for exploring ideas with code on the web, powered by JavaScript and NPM. What if programming was about ideas not semicolons? Compose, abstract, generalise. Start from top down or bottom up and refine as you go. With Nodes programming feels like sketching on canvas. Nodes is a new way to create with code

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Coffee and the cosmos at large both approach thermal equilibrium. Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown. In half an hour, the drink cools to room temperature. Left for days, the liquid evaporates. The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow | Quanta Magazine

A paper posted online this month has settled a nearly 30-year-old conjecture about the structure of the fundamental building blocks of computer circuits. Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Maga

For the first time, researchers have teleported a qutrit, a tripartite unit of quantum information. "Qutrit" Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation - Scientific Amer

For Fast Company‘s inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators list, we set out to find companies that empower all employees—not just top executives, scientists, or coders—to create new products, improve operations, and take risks. The 50 best workplaces for innovators

As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980 boot drives and 108,660 data drives. Hard Drive Reliability in 2019: Failure Rates of 108,461 Drives

The visual below shows the locations of 20% of the photos that were taken on January 25th, 2018 by Planet's satellites (the white circles) which are continuously circling the Earth. The desktop version shows 100% of the photos. Planet | Imaging the entire Earth, every day

Our vision is to improve the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource: the sky. Our vision is to improve the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource: the sky. SkyCool Systems: The future of cooling

Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to – but children don’t ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests. Warning to adults: Children notice everything

Today, members of the millennial generation are ages 23 to 38. These ought to be prime years of careers taking off and starting families, before joints really begin to ache. Millennial loneliness poll: 22 percent say they have “no friends” - Vox

It’s difficult to measure and quantify what good management actually looks like. But there’s new data that can help. So much depends upon managers. For example, a Gallup study found that at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores is driven by who the boss is. What Great Managers Do Daily

What goes through the head of a U.S. president? That is a question that both voters and leaders alike would love to know the answer to. Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks

In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País. Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China - MIT Technology Review

Earlier this week, while waiting to board an early morning flight from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, I found myself stranded in Terminal 2, hungry and parched. My search for sustenance led me to a breakfast bar, where I procured a bagel and a small beverage. The total? $11. Why is airport food so expensive?