The modern gentleman knows more about the world than what he sees around him, or what he's experienced.
That means the modern gentleman reads books — he collects knowledge. And he doesn't stop at the classics — he's also caught up with today's greatest literary works.
Everyone's path to success is different.
For some, it's mostly linear. Others encounter more twists, turns, and bumps along the way.
Billionaire Mark Cuban, for example, faced hardship when he first started. When Cuban got to Dallas, he "was struggling — sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment," he wrote in "How To Win At The Sport Of Business." On the other hand, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was a Xerox salesman dreaming of good coffee.
To prove that no two paths to success are alike, we've highlighted what Cuban, Schultz, and 16 other successful people were doing at age 25.
This is an update of a post originally written by Vivian Giang and Max Nisen.
Before her name was known in every American household, Martha Stewart worked on Wall Street for five years as a stockbroker. Before that, she was a model, booking clients from Unilever to Chanel.
"There were very few women at the time on Wall Street … and people talked about this glass ceiling, which I never even thought about," Stewart said in an interview for PBS's MAKERS series. "I never considered myself unequal, and I think I got a very good education being a stockbroker."
In 1972, Stewart left Wall Street to be a stay-at-home mom. A year later, she started a catering business.
At age 25, Cuban had graduated from Indiana University and had moved to Dallas. He started out as a bartender and then a salesperson for a PC software retailer. He got fired because he wanted to go close a deal rather than open a store in the morning. That helped inspire him to open his first business, MicroSolutions.
"When I got to Dallas, I was struggling — sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment," Cuban writes in his book "How to Win at the Sport of Business.""I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation."
Before she was Arianna Huffington, she was Arianna Stassinopolous, and at the age of 21, she met the famed British journalist Henry Bernard Levin while on a panel for a quiz show.
The two entered into a relationship, and he became her mentor while she wrote the book "The Female Woman," attacking the women's liberation movement. The book was published when she was 23.
For the next few years, Huffington traveled to music festivals around the world with Levin as he wrote for the BBC. Her relationship with Levin eventually ended because he did not want to marry or have children. Huffington moved to New York City at the age of 30. That year, her biography of Maria Callas was published, which she dedicated to Levin.
She told William Skidelsky at The Observer:
"[Levin] was my mentor. Our second date was to see 'The Mastersingers' at Covent Garden. Our first trip abroad was to Bayreuth to see 'Wagner's Ring.'"
With industry-shifting changes in technology in recent years, many parents have no idea what their adult kids actually do for a living. But they want to understand.
That's a big reason why LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site, launched its annual "Bring In Your Parents Day" last year. This week, the company will again invite employees' parents to visit the office on Nov. 6 to attend presentations and tag along with their children to learn more about their work.
In its 2013 global survey of 16,000 adults, LinkedIn found that one out of every three parents has a hard time understanding what their kids' jobs require. Two-thirds of parents want to learn more, and half think that they could better support their children if they did.
The survey identified the 10 jobs that are most misunderstood around the world. We've broken them out, along with an explanation for any struggling parents.
Max Nisen contributed to an earlier version of this article.
Parents who don't get it: 43%
How to explain it to your mom: You match up people who have money with people who need it, by helping companies issue bonds and equity shares and helping companies buy other companies.
Parents who don't get it: 43%
How to explain it to your mom: You make sure your team wins, by managing coaches and athletes, overseeing practices, and making play decisions during the game.
Parents who don't get it: 50%
How to explain it to your mom: You make your clients look good by coordinating interviews and providing information about them to the media.
Larry Charles, a key staff writer on 'Seinfeld' and the director of 'Borat' and 'Religulous,' sat down with comedian/podcaster Pete Holmes for this week's episode of his "You Made It Weird" podcast.
The best moment from the episode comes about 1 hour and 26 minutes in when Charles offers up a story about working with Bob Dylan.
He mentions that back in the 90s, Bob Dylan was endlessly touring and stuck on a bus a lot of the time, so to combat his boredom, he would become "addicted" to different genres of movies and watch "every single one of them" during that period.
At one point, he became "deeply into Jerry Lewis" and decided he wanted to star in a slapstick comedy. Not only that, but he decides he wants to do it as a TV series for HBO, and this is when Charles' phone starts to ring.
Charles describes the whole experience as "very dreamlike" and says he really only took the meeting so he could tell his friends he had a meeting with Bob Dylan. Charles describes the surreal meeting:
"He owns a boxing gym in Santa Monica, I meet him in the back of this boxing gym in a cubicle, he's chain-smoking the whole time...completely smoke-filled...and his assistant comes over and says 'do you want something to drink' and it's attached to this coffee house so I say 'yeah, I'll just have an iced coffee' and Bob responds 'I want something hot. I want a hot beverage,' because that's sort of how he talks, he talks in this very ornate way. So they bring a hot coffee for him, a cappuccino or something, and they bring an iced coffee for me and they put them together in the middle of the table and he immediately grabs my iced coffee and starts drinking the iced coffee.
"And I'm watching him drink it, and I'm not touching the other thing I didn't want the other thing, and finally he almost finishes my drink and goes 'why aren't you drinking your drink' and it's like 'you're drinking my drink,' y'know, and he kinda laughed, and that kinda broke the ice, strangely enough. It's like going to see a sorcerer...'cause it's like all a test...he drank my drink, how would I react?"
As the meeting progressed, Charles got some fascinating and unique insight into Bob Dylan's writing process.
"He brings out this very ornate beautiful box, like a sorcerer would, and he opens the box and dumps all these pieces of scrap paper on the table...and yes, that is exactly what he does...every piece of scrap paper was a hotel stationary, little scraps from Norway and from Belgium and Brazil and places like that, and each little piece of paper had a line, like some kind of little line scribbled or a name scribbled, 'Uncle Sweetheart,' or a weird poetic line or an idea or whatever, and he was like 'I don't know what to do with all this,'...and for some reason I was able to go 'oh y'know you can take this...this is a line, this is the character, and the character could say this line.' And he said 'you can do that?' and it's like 'yeah, yeah you can do that' because I realized that's how he writes songs, he takes these scraps and he puts them together and makes his poetry out of that.
"He has all these ideas...and then just in a kind of subconscious or unconscious way he lets them kind of synthesize into a coherent thing, and that's how we wound up writing, also. We wound up writing in a very cut-up technique, we would just take scraps of paper, put them together, try to make them make sense, try to find the story points within it, and we finally...we wrote this very elaborate treatment for this slapstick comedy which was filled with surrealism and all kinds of things from his songs and stuff. So we say to Bob, 'if you come to HBO with us, we'll definitely sell the project because they won't have the balls to say no to your face,' and he agrees."
"So he showed up at the meeting...and at the time, by the way, I was only wearing pajamas everywhere I went, I used to just wear pajamas, I worked at 'Mad About You' for two years, I started wearing pajamas, everywhere I went, I would take my kids to events and I'd be wearing pajamas...I probably was having a nervous breakdown and didn't realize, but I wore pajamas everywhere I went."
"So I show up for the meeting in my pajamas...and he shows for the meeting at HBO in a black cowboy hat, a black floor length duster, black boots, he looks like Cat Ballou or something, he looks like a Western guy who's carrying six guns.
"We stride down the hall at HBO, if you can imagine that scene, my hair is super long, beard down to my belly button in f*ckin' pajamas and Bob Dylan is dressed like a cowboy from a movie. We go into the meeting and Chris Albrecht who was the president of HBO says 'Bob, oh, so great to meet you, look I have the original tickets from Woodstock' and Bob goes 'I didn't play Woodstock' and then he walks over to the other side of the office which has floor to ceiling windows overlooking the city and proceeds to have his back turned to us for the entire meeting.
"He never turns around, I have to start pitching this thing...this is who he is. Gavin Polone was there, who has my manager at the time, and he was like [whisper] 'he's like a retarded child.' So I would go 'Bob's going to do this, right Bob?' and at the end, ironically, despite all this discomfort, they bought the project, indeed.
"They bought the project, we go out to the elevator, Bob's manager Jeff, my manager Gavin, me and Bob, the 3 of us are elated we actually sold the project and Bob says 'I don't want to do it anymore.' He says 'I don't want to do it anymore, it's too slapsticky.' He's like not into it, that's over. The slapstick phase has officially ended. He's not into it anymore, and Gavin Polone said to me 'you gotta get out of this', and I said 'I'm on the Bob Dylan train, I'm going to take this train wherever it takes me' and we wound up re-writing that into kinda like a serious movie, and that's what we wound up shooting, which took another year to do that.'
The final product, titled "Masked and Anonymous," debuted at Sundance Film Festival in 2003 and received less than stellar reviews despite an impressive cast (pictured below).
The episode of "You Made It Weird" was a quintessential example of what makes the longform, intimate interview podcast so special — Pete's an incredible conversationalist, and Larry Charles was an open book, telling numerous great stories from his lengthy (and still thriving) career.
Below is a YouTube clip with an abridged version of the story. The full episode is available for free here.
SEE ALSO: The Holy Grail For Bob Dylan Fans Has Just Been Released
This summer, Business Insider compiled a list of the most expensive colleges in the US.
The list is based off each school's tuition, fees, and room and board for the 2014-2015 school year.
We took the top 12 colleges from that list and broke down the costs to find out how much just one course will set you back.
Here's how we did it:
We took the tuition for each school — not including fees or room and board — and multiplied that number by 4 to find out how much it costs to graduate on a standard four-year schedule.
We then figured out how many courses a student needs to take to receive a degree at each university by looking at each school's website and determining the number of credits needed to graduate, then reading the course catalogue to find the number of credits for a typical course.
We divided the cost to graduate by the number of courses needed, giving us the cost of a single course. (The credit number we used to represent a typical course is specified for each university.)
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Bear in mind that every school and every student is different.
Many students attending these schools receive scholarships and/or financial aid, which lowers the cost of tuition. They may spend a semester or year abroad, and pay a different school tuition. They may graduate early.
And since course and credit requirements often differ according to major, the number of courses needed to graduate can vary from student to student. Plus, a course for more than a typical number of credits will be less expensive, while a course for fewer credits will cost more.
Our calculations can't possibly match every individual's college experience, but they do help quantify how much every A, B, or C costs for a full-time student paying sticker price at a four-year school.
We found it interesting that this list does not follow the order of our list of most expensive universities. A course at the most expensive school, Harvey Mudd College, actually costs less than many others.
This is because courses at some schools — like the most expensive on the list — count for more credits, meaning that students have to take fewer courses to graduate. The fewer courses a student has to take, the more a single course is going to cost.
This post has been updated to reflect the fact that University of Chicago full time undergraduate students attend school for three quarters each year, and not four.
Tuition for 4 years: $188,556
Number of courses needed to graduate: 42
Units of credit per course: 100
Cost per course: $4,489
Note: The University of Chicago uses a quarter system in place of semesters.
Tuition for 4 years: $193,260
Number of courses needed to graduate: 43
Credits per course: 3
Cost per course: $4,494
Tuition for 4 years: $187,184
Number of courses needed to graduate: 40
Credits per course: .50-1
Cost per course: $4,679
Note: At Trinity, students need 36 course credits to graduate. Therefore, the standard amount of course credit taken per semester is 4.5. Since courses range from .25-2 credits, we assumed a student would take four 1-credit courses and one .5-credit course per semester (five courses in total per semester). Five courses per semester would amount to 40 courses in total needed to graduate.
As China continues its rise to superpower stature, Beijing is trying to rapidly increase its firepower.
China's attempts to seriously upgrade its military — with next-generation fighter jets, ballistic missiles, and advanced naval vessels — is partly aimed at keeping pace with the US.
The two are in a veritable arms race in east Asia. The US engaged in a "pivot to Asia," focusing military and diplomatic attention on an increasingly important part of the world.
Meanwhile, China is trying to expand its territorial reach into the South China Sea, an effort that's already bringing Beijing into conflict with US allies like Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
And China is constantly building its military with a possible invasion of Taiwan in mind.
Already, China has become the world's second-largest military spender, right behind the US. Since 1995, China has increased its defense budget by 500% in real terms.
Although China's military has a ways to go before it is qualitatively, or even quantitatively, a match for the US, the country's rise has been notable, and counts as one of the major geo-strategic developments of this decade.
The Chengdu J-20 is China's fifth-generation fighter, its response to the US F-35 and the Russian T-50. The J-20 is a stealth aircraft that is currently in its fourth round of prototypes.
The J-20 bears striking resemblance to the F-35 and the F-22, likely due to data theft and Chinese imitation of the skeletons of both planes. China may have the design specifications needed to give the J-20 stealth capabilities that are on par with the F-35.
Although the plane is estimated to have a striking range of 1,000 nautical miles, the aircraft itself is still reliant upon Russian engines and in a relatively early stage of its development.
The Shenyang J-31 is the other fifth-generation aircraft that China is currently developing.
Unlike the J-20, which is heavily based on stolen American plans, the J-31 boasts an indigenous design. The plane is about the same size as the F-35, but has a smaller weapons bay — giving the J-31 improved fuel efficiency and speed.
The J-31 is also designed to be deployable to China's planned fleet of aircraft carriers. It would join the F-35 as the only two carrier-based stealth fighters in the world.
The J-31 is scheduled to make its public debut at China's largest commercial and defense airshow in Zhuhai in early November.
The Shenyang J-15 is a carrier-based fighter aircraft that debuted in 2009. In a 2014 report to Congress, the Pentagon noted that the Fying Shark was conducting full-stops and takeoffs from China's Liaoning aircraft carrier with full weapons payloads.
When based on the ground, the J-15 should have a combat radius of about 1,200 kilometers. However, since the Liaoning does not provide a useful catapult launch, the aircraft will have a reduced combat radius while operating at sea, the Pentagon reported.
The Chinese-produced J-15 is based on designs of the Russian Sukhoi Su-33. The plane is a Russian-type design fitted with Chinese radar, engines, and weapons.
Sunday was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the most symbolic event marking the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the quarter of a century since the wall was knocked down, the political and economic systems in eastern Europe have been turned on their heads: Gone are the communist institutions, replaced with governments that are even more capitalistic than those on the western side of the Iron Curtain.
Researchers at Capital Economics have published a fantastic series of charts on the transformation of post-Soviet eastern Europe.
We've republished a selection of graphs from the report, which takes a look at 11 countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
Facebook turned 10 earlier this year. With over 1 billion users, it offers advertisers access to an enormous audience that spends more than 6 hours, 35 minutes on the site per month. Every day, Facebook users make 3.2 billion "comments" or "likes."
But the website didn't always have that kind of reach.
Kevin Colleran, current General Catalyst venture partner and one of Facebook's original 10 employees, and its first advertising salesperson, tweeted out a Facebook advertising sales deck from 2005. Back then, TheFacebook had only 1.9 million monthly users. Nonetheless, it was still able to charge a $7 CPM (cost per thousand views), which isn't bad. Take a look:
I found my first Facebook advertising sales deck from April 2005. Crazy to see how far FB has come in 10 years! https://t.co/63x3XwCxZa
— Kevin Colleran (@KevinColleran) November 4, 2014
Back in October, Viagra decided to change its packaging in Russia to give consumers a clearer idea of the effect its product would have on them.
While Viagra didn't change its logo worldwide this year, a number of other prominent brands did.
Some organizations, like Airbnb and Netflix, used the opportunity to communicate an entirely new vision. Others, like Volvo and Florida State University, made only small tweaks to update the logos they were already using.
Retired NFL legend Terry Bradshaw has listed his ranch in Oklahoma for $10.8 million.
The 750-acre Circle 12 Ranch is listed with Bernard Uechtritz and Angie Nelson of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty in Dallas. Uechritz told Business Insider that Bradshaw originally listed the property in 2012 with local real estate companies, but after buying propertiy in Hawaii, Bradshaw relisted the ranch with Uechritz, Nelson, and Sotheby's for their international and local experience.
The main estate features an 8,600-square-foot estate with six bedrooms and six bathrooms. The inside boasts high ceilings, wooden panels, and stone fireplaces to capture the ranch feeling. Outside of the main estate are two fully stocked fishing lakes, as well as stables, equestrian training courses, and rolling hills filled with cattle.
Every small-town tough guy thinks he'd never take treatment like this.
Then when they get down to Parris Island, that small-town tough guy quickly realizes: You will take treatment like this and like it.
Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at Marine Corps recruit training. Drill Instructors are the thing of legend — I remember, when they finally let us sleep for the first time, about 50 truly harrowing hours from the time we arrived, and those lights shut out, each of us in our racks, I heard a decent handful of grown men crying for their mothers.
I'm not even joking.
Before I left for a weeklong work trip to Ireland, I had an awkward conversation with my husband. It went something like this:
"I'll be staying at a hotel in Dublin called Buswell's for four of the five nights. On Friday night, I'm getting kidnapped. I'm being taken on some mystery train trip overnight, and I have no idea where we're staying. So if I die that day, I don't know what to tell you."
The "mystery train" was organized by Paddy Cosgrave, a prominent tech figure in Dublin who organizes a 20,000-person conference, Web Summit, and a smaller, invite-only event called F.ounders.
F.ounders rounds up a few members of the press, leaders of valuable startups, top venture capitalists, and celebrities. Attendees this year included model Lily Cole, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, and actor Adrian Grenier. F.ounders organizes trips, dinners, and networking events that result in rapid bonding, limited cell phone use, and lasting business relationships.
The week before F.ounders, all 250 attendees received an email. A portion of the email read: "For the first time we are all leaving Dublin on a mystery train the morning of the 7th! We have taken care of all of the logistics, all you need to remember is to bring a small overnight bag."
On Saturday morning, we were told to be ready by 10, when we'd be transported to a mysterious location in Ireland. I checked out of my hotel with a toothbrush, deodorant, and a change of clothes, and told the concierge I'd hopefully be back in 24 hours.
The world will spend nearly $4 trillion dollars on technology this year, alone, with the vast majority (over $3 trillion) spent by companies on business tech, Gartner predicts.
When that much money is involved, it always creates one thing: power.
This is a list of the most powerful people in that multi-trillion dollar industry, many of them multi-millionaires, or even billionaires, in their own right.
Some are powerful because they run the biggest, baddest enterprise tech companies around. Others are powerful because they are changing the status quo, upending the business models or technologies of those powerful companies.
Others are the powerful people behind the well-known stars of this industry.
Jeff Lawson, co-founder and CEO, Twilio
The company that Lawson founded, Twilio, lets an app send you a text or automated voice call and has at one point touched 95% of American adults, the company says. It's everywhere.
Twilio was even the unsung hero behind Samsung's $200 million acquisition of SmartThings in August.
Lawson was an early product manager with Amazon Web Services, founding CTO of Stubhub.com, but since Twilio, his personal power has been on the rise. He just joined the board of the the wireless industry's lobbying organization, the CTIA Wireless Association.
Paula Long, co-founder and CEO, DataGravity
Paula Long sold her first company EqualLogic, to Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008, and her highly anticipated new startup, DataGravity, just came out of stealth in August, with more than $42 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, and Charles River Ventures.
DataGravity’s software can automatically analyze information across a company's computer storage systems.
Long is known today as a storage engineering wizard, but her first job, at age 14, was manual labor on a tobacco farm. She also did a stint working on artificial intelligence and robots.
Keith Krach, chairman and CEO, DocuSign
Krach has enjoyed a long and successful career as one of the top business leaders in the country. He was GM's youngest-ever vice president at the age of 26, before joining the team of Rasna Corporation, which sold for $500 million to Parametric Technologies.
He then went on to co-found Ariba, a business commerce solution provider, which was later sold to SAP for $4.3 billion.
In 2011, Krach took the CEO position at DocuSign, the e-signature software provider that has more than $230 million in funding. He was already its chairman for two years before being named CEO, so it was a natural transition for him. DocuSign now has 40 million users in 188 countries worldwide.
With the introduction of the Panamera Exclusive Series at this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, Porsche will now be selling an incredible 12 different versions of its flagship luxury car.
First introduced in 2009, the Panamera has become a sales success — giving Porsche its first legitimate four-door sedan to compete with the likes of the Aston Martin Rapide, Bentley Flying Spur, and Maserati Quattroporte.
Like many of the company's other models, the various versions of the Panamera may be difficult to tell apart. However, like the Porsche 911, each iteration of the Panamera are differentiated by very subtle, but important differences. In the US, Porsche currently sells various versions of the Panamera in two different sizes and with 5 different engines.
It could've been the most expensive divorce in history, but oil tycoon Harold Hamm will pay his ex-wife Sue Ann only less than $1 billion after 26 years of marriage.
Bloomberg ranks Hamm as the 50th richest person in the world, worth $16 billion. He and his wife did not sign a prenuptial agreement when they married.
Hamm's company, Continental Resources, owns 1 million acres in North Dakota's Bakken oil field, the shale play that has helped U.S. oil production rise to levels unseen in decades. Hamm owns 68% of the company and has an amazing rags to riches story.
We wanted to portray the full life-story of a man who went from pumping gas at a corner store to becoming one of the most influential people in the energy industry.
This is an update of a post originally written by Rob Wile.
Source: Reuters
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The job of a US Marine means much more than knowing how to patrol and shoot a rifle.
The Corps, which celebrates its 239th anniversary on Nov. 10, wants troops who can think clearly under fire and make calm and intelligent decisions.
So it comes as no surprise that the Corps' top officer — a four-star general known as the Commandant — publishes a list of books that Marines of all ranks have to learn from.
The books cover a range of topics, from the warfighting techniques discussed in "Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1: Warfighting" to leadership in "Battlefield Leadership." Even the anti-war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" makes the list.
The Corps has led a recent push for Marines to pick up a book from the always-expanding list, of which you can see in full here. We picked out 12 of our favorites.
This post was originally written by David M. Brooks.
"The Red Badge Of Courage" is considered a classic of American literature.
This book is recommended for new recruits. It follows a bravado-filled enlisted man who flees in cowardice during the Civil War.
War is easy to romanticize until you're in the middle of it, as Crane's work makes clear. And while the battle scenes in the book still receive high praise for their brutal realism, the author never experienced war firsthand.
In "Making The Corps," journalist Tom Ricks follows a platoon of recruits through the rigorous training of Marine Corps boot camp. Many Marine recruits are fresh out of high school, and this book chronicles the process that transforms young men and women from civilians into Marines.
This book is recommended for midshipmen and officer candidates whose initial training is different from the enlisted Marines they hope to one day lead. If you've ever wondered what life is like in a Marine Corps boot camp, this book gives one of the best accounts.
Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" is one of two books by the author on the Commandant's reading list ("Outliers" is the other). Military leaders are often required to make quick decisions with limited information and "Blink" addresses the ability of the mind to make snap decisions as well as the influences that corrupt the decision-making process.
"Blink" also has a fascinating chapter on the Millennium Challenge 2002 exercise where the military brought Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper out of retirement to lead enemy forces in a wargame against the United States. As the book notes, Van Riper thought outside the box in countering his US military foe and obliterated their forces in the exercise.
Van Riper later charged leaders with "rigging" the game and taking away his decision-making power.
Temperatures during the Korean War’s decisive battle at the Chosin Reservoir in late 1950 were as low as negative 35 degrees Fahrenheit. The terrain was more rugged than most American troops had ever seen.
Allied forces were outnumbered and encircled. "We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things,” the then commander of the 1st Marine Regiment Col. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller famously said.
The Marines took heavy losses during that battle, primarily due to the elements and otherwise treacherous conditions.
The lessons learned at the Chosin Reservoir led to the inception of what is today known as the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, in 1951. It's located in an isolated 46,000-acre tract deep inside Toiyabe National Forest in northern California.
Nestled in a valley between rugged mountain ranges in California’s Sierra Nevada, MWTC all but mirrors conditions Marines faced on that frozen battlefield decades ago. Today it is the premier training ground for Marines heading into mountainous, high altitude, and or cold weather environments, like the site of the Corps' weapons stocks in Norway— or, until recently, the alpine regions of Afghanistan.
Business Insider visited the Marine Corps premiere facility for preparing its soldiers for the rigors of alpine warfare. Located high in California's Sierra Nevada, not far from Yosemite National Park, it is one of the Corps' most unique installations — set amid spectacular natural beauty.
A record 12 Breakthrough Prizes were announced on Sunday.
Created by Silicon Valley giants from Facebook and Google in February 2013, the Breakthrough Prize is a $33 million annual pot that is split among 11 people — or in the case of this year, 12 people — to reward life science and math researchers. An individual Breakthrough Prize is worth roughly three times the value of the Nobel Prize.
This year, six Breakthrough Prizes went to researchers in the life sciences, and five mathematicians won for their work; though in the future, just one prize a year will go to a mathematician.
With an estimated net worth of $17 billion, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen can afford to buy himself some fancy toys.
But with interests that range from electric guitars to World War II aircraft, Allen takes expensive hobbies to a whole new level.
We've rounded up some of the billionaire's most ridiculous toys, from submarines to professional sports teams.
Source: 60 Minutes
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Source: 60 Minutes
