… that more than half of the 20 richest women in the world are Chinese, according to the Shanghai-based Hurun Report. The list compiled its own findings with data from similar rankings from Forbes Magazine. The top 3 on the list are from China. Some attribute this to the communist ethos of gender-neutrality.
Having read the [...]
A few years ago, this author decided to count how many countries he had been to. The count was 45. But does anybody know what percentage that represents?
You would think that is a fairly straight-forward question. Shouldn’t the definition of a country be any land with a defined border with a functioning government? According to [...]
If you haven’t read Outliers, or Malcom Gladwell’s previous books The Tipping Point and Blink, you are missing out on some of the most insightful, entertaining, and mind-opening dissections of human behavior. In Outliers, Gladwell explains what makes a person extraordinarily successful.
Here is the Cliffs Note version:
You need a minimum level of smarts, but not [...]
A societal imbalance
438 million people in China will be 60 or older by 2050, leaving just 1.6 working-age adults for each elder. (Couples in Shanghai can now have a second child. )
America’s education paradox
Americans rank 15th to 25th in math, reading, science and problem solving, but are #4 in % of higher-education degrees earned.
Which came [...]
Fareed Zakaria has been a favorite of mine for years. Editor of Newseek International since 2000, he seems to blast through media bias and provides an unusually independent and insightful interpretation of foreign policy and events.
He wrote a great assessment of America’s future position in the world in The Post-American World, and has a Sunday show called [...]
