Because it’s better to just do it than to wait for someone else to do it and charge you $18 million for doing it. Just a few weeks ago, Tomas Vondracek says, he was “almost nobody.” That’s not strictly true. The 44-year-old Czech entrepreneur runs a…
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Hotel entrepreneur Valeri Chekheria helped build the nation of Georgia into a post-Soviet tourist gem with a reputation for cool. As the country reopens to tourists amid the coronavirus pandemic, he faces his biggest challenge yet: welcoming visitors…
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When Anthony Simpkins hunts for new musicians to feature on his wildly popular YouTube channel, the music itself is almost secondary. “I guess I’m looking for a story,” he says, “kind of like I imagine a journalist would.” That’s probably why each…
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Considering the ordeal she lived through, Josephine Bakhita couldn’t have been bestowed a more ironic name by her Arab captors. Kidnapped from her childhood home in Sudan’s Darfur region by slave traders in the late 19th century, Bakhita (meaning…
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The Presidential Daily Brief is the smartest way to start your day! Take our weekly quiz and see how well-briefed you are. SIGN UP NOW Catch up on the day’s headlines and go deep on where we’re at. News + Politics In this episode, CJ talks to Carlos…
May 08 20May 08, 2020
News + Politics What climate pledge did Chinese President Xi Jinping make to the United Nations Tuesday? Test your knowledge
This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of…
Apr 14 20April 14, 2020
With entire populations around the world locked inside, museums everywhere have closed their doors until the deadly coronavirus pandemic passes. Not this one. Which actually opened. Since crisis fuels artistic inspiration — and lockdowns provide…
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PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL - MARCH 15: Players of Gremio wearing masks before the match between Gremio and Sao Luiz as part of the Rio Grande do Sul State Championship 2020, to be played behind closed doors at Arena do Gremio Stadium, on March 15, 2020 in…
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NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2020/03/30: Following the arrival in New York City of the U.S. Naval hospital ship Comfort, NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo is seen during a press conference at the field hospital site at the Javits Center. (Photo by…
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People donating blood at the Blood Transfusion Department of the Pirogov Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Moscow. The amount of people willing to donate blood has decreased in several Russian regions due to cancellation of donor events and…
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People play the Italian national anthem with music instruments from the window of their house during a music flash mob called "Look out from the window, Rome mine !" (Affacciati alla Finestra, Roma Mia !) aimed at liven up the city's silence during…
Mar 17 20March 17, 2020
For a man with big space dreams, serial entrepreneur Max Polyakov is unusually focused on Earth. The co-founder of U.S. startup Firefly Aerospace is in no rush to get to Mars. And launching an interstellar space station? Let that remain the stuff of…
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A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks along an elevated walkway as an electronic ticker displays stock figures in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai, China, on Friday, March 6, 2020. While infections in the rest of the world…
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