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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.

When my daughter was growing up, she often wanted to rush off to do fun things with her friends - get into the water at the beach, ride off on her bike - without taking the proper safety precautions first.

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Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Americas +1 212 318 2000 Europe, Middle East, & Africa +44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific +65 6212 1000 Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of in...

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I'm a Silicon Valley liberal, and I travelled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters

Sam Altman runs a prestigious Silicon Valley startup incubator, Y Combinator. He did not vote for Donald Trump. But he wanted to learn about how the rest of America thinks and feels. So he spent months traveling the country, interviewing Trump supporters.

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I'm a Silicon Valley liberal, and I travelled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters

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Making My Underwear An Accessible Product

This is a story about My Underwear. Not my underwear - but "My Underwear" - the mobile game for children from my old game studio. More importantly, it's about the hard work of building accessible products, about finding and fueling previously unreachable audiences (niche markets on the internet), and ultimately about creating joy for people usi...

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How a cold call to a billionaire led this founder to sell his company for $225 million

On July 22, 2009, John Gabbert stared at the bank balance for his two-year old startup and took a screenshot. "We had $22,000 in the bank and we owed $100,000," Gabbert, CEO of PitchBook Data, told Business Insider. "I told myself, 'This is either the bottom or the end.'" The startup wasn't exactly living large.

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How I Sold My Company to Twitter, Went to Facebook, and Screwed My Co-Founders

In this excerpt adapted from his new, take-no-prisoners Silicon Valley memoir Chaos Monkeys, Antonio García Martínez explains the harrowing exit of his one-year-old Y Combinator startup company. As we begin our narrative, García Martínez is CEO and unofficial strategist of AdGrok, which is in the midst of the "trough of despair" following launch...

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Enough Money To Buy A Toyota: The Rise, Slump, and Sale of My Side Project

This is the story of a side project my business partner and I started on nights and weekends for under $10,000. Of how that side project became a controversial-yet-profitable small business doing $15,000/month with 2 full-time employees. Of how that business declined to $3,500/month.

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A Remote Amazonian Tribe Harbors Unprecedented Microbial Diversity

The trillions of bacteria that live on us and in us-otherwise known as our microbiomes-are vital to our health in ways we're just beginning to understand. Now scientists have discovered the most diverse collection of bodily bacteria ever, in a remote Amazonian tribe of southern Venezuela.

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Overpopulation - The Human Explosion Explained

In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization? Check out https://ourworldindata.org by Max Roser!

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