The Earth is 4.5 billion years old and is expected to be swallowed by the sun in about 5 billion years, when Earth is 9.5 billion years old. If we make 100 million years one "Earth year," then the planet is currently 45 (out of a 95-year life). Humans are Earth's mid-life crisis.
🚲🚲 What a success story ➡️
Compared to 2019, almost twice as many people now live near a high-quality cycle route in London 🇬🇧.
Latest @TfL data shows that levels of cycling increased by 40 %‼️
Build it 🚲 and they’ll come👇👇
https://t.co/H5pauC7LgR
Whatever artistic or cultural statement organizers of #BurningMan planned to make this year will never be as important as the statement inadvertently made when all those people in the desert tried to drive home.
The most powerful cultural force in North America —car dependency.
The Mona Lisa is a great lesson on fame.
Leonardo da Vinci began his masterpiece in 1503 but few people were talking about it for the next 400 years.
Today, it's the most famous painting in the world. How did it happen? A major scandal in 1911.
Here's the story🧵
Isochrones 😍 ! This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe.
https://t.co/6F4dJ80N87
Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru by @juliustens.
Why are so many startups and tech companies that saw their business boom in 2020-2021 laying off right now?
This is why. They mis-judged the reality of the e-commerce market and assumed we see a permanent lift.
They assumed #3, hoped for #2 or #1. But what we get is #5 or #6.
The total value of Y Combinator companies is over $250 billion.
Including Airbnb, Stripe and Coinbase.
Here are the 10 best resources from their startup library:
Il y a 20 ans, journaliste à @tf1, j'ai fait un reportage sur un sujet qui m'a bouleversé. Il ne s'agissait pourtant pas de partir à l'autre bout du monde, ou de risquer sa vie dans un conflit. Il fallait juste sortir de Paris, rouler un peu en ile de France, le 93
Après environ 10 ans sans MS Office, je décide de tester la version en ligne de Word. C'est incroyable, le processus de login est encore plus chiant que d'acheter un billet d'avion. On dirait un site de l'an 2000.