Andrew Ross Sorkin on worrying similarities between Wall Street today and 1929’s pre-crash market

[ad_1] After nearly a decade spent studying the most famous stock market crash in history, financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin warns that the Wall Street of today echoes the market of 1929, when highs preceded a massive slump, leading to the Great Depression. Artificial intelligence and technology have contributed to a remarkable boom in recent…

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Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate “tipping point,” report says

[ad_1] Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass bleaching events caused by climate change. Now, reefs are the first environmental system on Earth to pass a climate “tipping point,” according to a new report…

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How China could use U.S. farmland to attack America

[ad_1] Chinese entities have been acquiring land in key locations near U.S. military bases, sparking national security concerns about possible spying — or even a potential attack. Former national security official David Feith laid out the potential risk in an interview with 60 Minutes. Feith worked on U.S.-China policy for the State Department in the…

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Matt Groening on “The Simpsons” turning 37

[ad_1] Cartoonist Matt Groening had no idea his one-off animated episode of “The Simpsons” in 1987 would become America’s longest-running sitcom, now beginning its 37th season. Seth Doane talks with Groening about the show’s enduring appeal (and propensity to predict the future), and visits the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, where the art…

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These United States: Bright ideas

[ad_1] David Pogue looks at the pioneering spirit of innovation that Thomas Edison fostered at his R&D facility in Menlo Park, N.J., where his team helped create the light bulb and the phonograph. He also talks with Google’s Steven Johnson and the panel of “Shark Tank” about today’s entrepreneurs and whether an inventor’s ability to…

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