A new poll shows American voters think the majority of Congress is afraid of the NRA and support companies like Dick's Sporting Goods, which announced it will stop selling assault-style rifles or raise the age restriction to 21.
Asia to account for bulk of global wealth in next decade, with positive implications for UAE. Number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, with personal assets of $30 million or more, living in Dubai is expected to rise by 60 per cent by 2026 according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank’s annual Wealth Report.
Xi Jinping seems to have total control in China—and may keep it for a very long time. China’s Communist Party announced a proposal to abolish term limits for its highest office. News seemed to confirm what many have long suspected: Xi Jinping, the country’s leader, wants to be president for life.
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is always the same: 3.14159... and on & on forever. This irrational number, pi, has an infinite number of digits. Lets figure out pi's vast applications to the study of music, financial models, and even the density of the universe.
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. Watch this video to decode some seriously tricky science.
His face is recognized all over the world – the young medical student who became a revolutionary icon. But was Che Guevara a heroic champion of the poor, or a ruthless warlord who left a legacy of repression? Alex Gendler puts this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Che Guevara.
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