Tag: jeff bezos
Dead billionaires whose foundations are thriving today can thank Henry VIII...
Nuri Heckler, University of Nebraska Omaha
More than 230 of the world’s wealthiest people, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates...
The 50 biggest US donors gave or pledged nearly $28 billion...
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Elizabeth J. Dale, Seattle University, and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, George Washington University
A lunar return, a Jupiter moon, the most powerful rocket ever...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
Space travel is all about momentum.
Rockets turn their fuel into...
Is tax avoidance ethical? Asking on behalf of a few billionaire...
Erin Bass, University of Nebraska Omaha
Some of the U.S.‘s wealthiest individuals reportedly pay just a tiny fraction of...
Private planes, mansions and superyachts: What gives billionaires like Musk and...
Richard Wilk, Indiana University and Beatriz Barros, Indiana University
Tesla’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have been vying...
Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the...
Susan Wade, Keene State College
As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt...
Amazon is turning 25 – here’s a look back at how...
Venkatesh Shankar, Texas A&M University
A quarter of a century ago, on July 5, 1994, a company, which shared a name with the world’s...
The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model
Rodney Benson, New York University and Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
On July 28, Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
