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Paige Elkington, DJ Flume’s Burning Man video co-star, has gone viral before By Hannah Frishberg September 4, 2019 | 11:37am | Updated Enlarge Image That raunchy video with DJ Flume isn't the first time Paige Elkington has gone viral.Instagram Who is the woman behind the viral mic cheek...

The Hedge Fund That Wasn’t Illustration by Jeremy Leung/II Bruce Shi of Thrones Capital claims in Forbes to be one of the most successful investment managers in the world. An investigation by columnist Angelo Calvello suggests he’s something else. By Angelo Calvello September 03, 2019...

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“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs

The Big Short’s Michael Burry Explains Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs Reed Stevenson , Bloomberg•September 4, 2019 The Big Short’s Michael Burry Explains Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs (Bloomberg) -- For an investor whose story was featured in a best-selling book and an...

PENTAGON WANTS TUNNELS FOR ROBOT TRAINING The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it is looking for a private underground tunnel system in which it can train autonomous drones and robots. The agency, which works on deep tech with potential military applications...

"Unread books take revenge on us" - Ray Bradbury

The World’s Largest Pension Funds Shrank in 2018 Assets under management at the 20 biggest retirement funds fell last year, according to Willis Towers Watson. Amy Whyte September 03, 2019 Illustration by II Assets held by the 300 largest pension funds in the world fell by $81 billion...

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Manny Pacquiao launches a cryptocurrency The Filipino boxer-politician-entrepreneur’s new cryptocurrency, the “pac,” will enable fans to buy merchandise by exchanging secure digital tokens. Pacquiao isn’t the first celebrity to try something strange to monetize his fanbase: See the Kylie Jenner...

"There is no substitute for hard work" - Thomas A. Edison

“Flexibility leads to tranquility.” - Brian Johnson another version “Infinite optionality leads to anti-fragility” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I wish I was fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and intelligence.” - Ernest Hemingway ( The Old Man and the Sea)

The epic, decades-long battle between Ford and a small-time inventor 50 years ago, Ford stole a patented design for a new type of windshield wiper. But they picked the wrong inventor the screw with. BY ZACHARY CROCKETT On a rainy day in 1962, Robert Kearns had one of those meandering thoughts...

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

Chipwich-heir’s wife raped by investigators he hired to spy on her: suit https://nypost.com/2019/09/01/chipwich-heirs-wife-raped-by-investigators-he-hired-to-spy-on-her-suit/

“There are no foreign lands, it’s only the traveler who is foreign” - Robert Louis Stevenson

The millionaire building a blockchain utopia: Jeffrey Burns became a millionaire in the cryptocurrency boom, and he’s using his money to build a blockchain utopia across 67,000 acres in Reno, Nevada. So far, Burns has spent $300 million to build an experimental community where everyone’s...

The luxury car detective: Joe Ford, a self-employed car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market. The case he’s on now could set him up for life—if he’s not outsmarted by a skilled network of criminals and cheats. Check out this twisted, worldwide hunt for a...