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  • How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts

    How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts0

    Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already ushered in or accelerated – telemedicine, remote work, social distancing, the death of the handshake, online shopping, the virtual disappearance of cash and

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  • How This Teen Entrepreneur Created a Million-Dollar Candy Empire

    How This Teen Entrepreneur Created a Million-Dollar Candy Empire1

    Alina Morse is a typical 14-year-old girl in a lot of ways. She goes to high school, likes to dance, and lives with her parents. Did we mention she also runs her own international candy empire? Oh. Well, she does. The story begins with a trip to the bank when Morse was seven. She asked

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  • How This Teacher Makes $4 Million per Year

    How This Teacher Makes $4 Million per Year0

    • September 23, 2015

    Teachers in America frequently complain that they are underpaid. But that is not a complaint you will hear from South Korean teacher, Andrew Kim, who made $4 million in 2010. Profiled in Amanda Ripley’s bestseller The Smartest Kids in the World, Kim is known in South Korea as a “rock-star teacher.” For over twenty years,

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  • How this Guy Got into Med School By Pretending to be Black

    How this Guy Got into Med School By Pretending to be Black0

    Even if you can’t remember his name (and who but an Indian could?), you may be familiar with Vijay JoJo Chokal-Ingam’s story as told in his recently self-published Almost Black: The True Story Of How I Got Into Medical School By Pretending To Be Black. The book is a fascinating personal story, but more important

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  • How This Entrepreneur Went From Door Man to Running a Three Billion Dollar Hotel Empire

    How This Entrepreneur Went From Door Man to Running a Three Billion Dollar Hotel Empire1

    Alan Fuerstman is the embodiment of the American Dream. He’s the founder of Montage Hotels & Resorts, a California-based luxury hotel and resort company that has a portfolio of $3 billion. He was listed on the Haute 100, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, serves on advisory boards, and gives back

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  • How These Cute Creatures Confound Evolutionary Theory

    How These Cute Creatures Confound Evolutionary Theory0

    We often hear that opposing the “scientific consensus” on this-or-that topic is benighted. Sometimes it can be that. But sometimes it isn’t—especially when scientific findings themselves contradict an established scientific consensus.    For at least a century, biologists have believed that the more “genetic diversity” there is within a species, the better able that species is to adapt to environmental change, and thus thrive

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