Results for “Long Now Foundation”

…decide how best to move forward. That approach, to the occasional frustration of the politicians and diplomats working alongside me during this critical stage of Israel’s history, had guided me from the moment I became Prime Minister. In my very first discussions with President C...

…ed Nan Huai-Chin packed his bags in Shanghai and began walking out of the city. He was headed west, and traced a route along the Huang Pu river, as he headed out towards E’Mei Shan several thousand miles away in Western China. E’Mei Shan – Eyebrow Mountain – was and is one of the...

PRAISE FOR The 4-Hour Workweek “It’s about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge.” —JACK CANFIELD, cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold “Stunnin...

…tions permanently.” --The Los Angeles Times “He has lived on the edge so long, he gets his mailed delivered there.” --San Francisco Chronicle “Krassner lives in a world where Truth and Satire are...

…again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to...

…ents revealing that the NSA has been intercepting data from the Internet. June 9, 2013, Hong Kong. In a 12-minute long video posted on the website of the Guardian, Edward Snowden reveals himself as the source for the document published by the Guardian and the Washington Pos...

…ry Delson to take charge Everyone would report to him. Eileen included. He would however work for me. this is not, by a long shot my first choice as I prefer only being responsible and standing behind my own personal work ( ie the word DONE will no longer be transmitted to reflec...

…ith Pangloss, is as to the doctrines we are taught. Whatever I study, I seem to find a good measure of nonsense taught along with wisdom. This book is about what I find of both in economics. And a problem I try to solve, not wish away, is the danger of losing sight of the points...

…d. We now see USD & rates only modestly higher next year. • We see higher growth and inflation, notably in Japan. We go long NKY, stay long EM AXJ & selective yield in equity/ credit. • Risk is an overshoot so we stay long USD/ short rates, adding a CNH put and short 10Y real rat...

…wo years at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholar. Agus has had a long and varied career. At the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he was an attending physician in the Department of Medical Oncology and head...

…ailed to make prima facie showing necessary to establish personal jurisdiction over Princes and others under New York’s long-arm statute; (8) modified due process standard appropriate for mass torts would not be applied to question of personal jurisdiction; (9) allegations were i...

…14 1:26 PM EDT By Matt Levine • a • A Every so often I hear a story that I find rather wonderful, and that I then pass along to you, just in case you and I share a similar sense of wonder. Here is one of those stories. It's about death and taxes. The story begins on Dec. 28 of la...

…minating the enemy, as opposed to merely injuring them. Killing another adult is costly because it involves intense, prolonged combat with another individual who is fighting back. The risks of significant personal injury are therefore high, even if the potential benefit is death...

…investors and have created some of the best performing portfolios of healthcare technology investments in the industry. LONG TERM TRACK RECORD Over an 18 year period and across the portfolios of 6 distinct venture funds focused on healthcare technology investments, the Fund Manag...

…a are more diverse and entertaining under modern authoritarianism, civil society can enjoy an independent existence (as long as it does not pursue political change), citizens can travel around the country or abroad with only occasional interference, and private enterprise can flo...