Jimmy Valvano’s 1993 ESPY Speech

“Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”

This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading

“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]

Stephen Fry discusses self-pity

Took both of us getting sick to make it to Quilotoa’s crater lake. But we made it….