I do know this: I am a fan. I am sunburned but do not care. I lose track of time. That's not a narrative flourish. Hours seem like moments. Rapture comes to the people here. I see Sachin constructing a score, and I understand the planning, and the years of experience, that lead...
"Sometimes you get a tree that can survive one storm, and it seems to be doing really well, only [for it] to get brought down in the next one," said Quinn. Wildfires can also be "really disruptive to a forest," Quinn said, as trees can die due to o...
well,who doesn’t, but I’d venture to say that some restless folks out there do like to jump from one thing to the next, always looking to shake things up whereas introverted little hermits like
China may have more people, and a large land area like the United States, but “they don't have the same kind of clash of air masses as much as you do in the U.S. that is producing a lot of the severe weather,” said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Res...
Maybe our technology can help us survive a few lightning strikes to the face, but it’ll still be horribly unpleasant to go through it, and any single lightning strike has the potential to wipe us out. Let’s look at it another way. Let’s imagine the Earth is a hard drive, and ...
And according to the National Transportation Safety Board, even passengers of the most devastating airplane crashes survive at a rate of 76 percent.” Only one out of every 11 million people will be in a plane crash in their lifetime. Dying in a plane crash is so unlikely that you’re ...
disruption will create opportunities that force “bet the company” decisions about product direction, markets, pricing, supply chain, operations and the reorganization necessary to execute a new business model. At the end of the day CEOs who surv...
some were convinced to give away their life’s savings. Others lost their lives in extreme acts of spiritual initiation—like the woman who perished in July 2003 while hiking up Casner Mountain with a backpack full of rocks and limited water. Or like th...
Knowledge is a constant. This life is nothing short of an awakening lightning bolt of eternal nature; where the complexity of the present time seems to demand a refining of our dreams, if we are going to survive. Who are we? Where on the great quest will we be aligned? Our conversations...
"We got in a fight over my girlfriend. We both had knives and my knife by chance happened to plunge into his neck. And what do you know? They gave me 20 years." And Prigozhin came and gave this offer, which was essentially if you fight for six months and you survive, and he ...