Top 5 Oldest Universities in the World 🌎: 1. 🇲🇦 University of al-Qarawiyyin – 859 AD 2. 🇮🇹 University of Bologna – 1088 AD 3. 🇬🇧 University of Oxford – 1096 AD 4. 🇫🇷 University of Paris (Sorbonne) – 1150 AD 5. 🇪🇸 University of Salamanca – 1134 AD

College is overrated

Do you think people would pursue progress for the benefit of society if it didn't involve social recognition? I think that even those who claim their actions are for the benefit of society are mostly driven by ego and the rewards they can gain from success. But we simply like

a guy becomes a man only when he dedicates himself to something greater than his own existence––a wife to provide for, a child to love, or a cause worth dying for without that anchor, without that purpose, he remains just a guy, wandering aimlessly, untested and unfulfilled

Writing the Fermi Paradox chapter of the book and man that topic just never gets old. Double the length of my 2014 post and updated with all the new ideas that have come out in the last decade. waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-…

New York is basically Gotham City with no Batman.

Boyan Slat It seems hard for people to understand that progress is not symmetrical. We solve problems, ours solutions have problems and so the circle goes on. We have always developed this way.

Me with $200 in Crypto waiting for 20 Jan x.com/DovySimuMMA/st…

The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.

“Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.” — Brian Armstrong

the airspace will be very busy in a few years

There’s no demand for “average.”

South Korean researchers developed a gummy-like robot using water droplets coated with Teflon particles PB can shape-shift, pick up debris, move across water, and merge with another similar robot

ジャパンニュースネットワークに感謝します！

TIME's new cover: The dire wolf is back after over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species ti.me/4jlJB54

Praxis, a self-described “sovereign network” funded by Silicon Valley investors, is looking for at least 10,000 acres somewhere in the world to build its first city bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Chrome is on a ticking clock.

SpaceX does more meaningful, cutting-edge “research” on the advancement of rockets and satellites than all the academic university labs on Earth combined. But we don’t use the pretentious, low-accountability term “researcher”. Engineer.

university degrees are about to become worthless, outside of vanity and status interesting times ahead