Timothy Mwiti
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SECOND THOUGHT. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
[Music] this episode and others like it are made possible by the generous support of my patrons if you'd like to help support this channel and get early access to every video consider becoming a patron at patreon.com second thought big news on Rihanna the superstar singer and entrepreneur gaining a new title billionaire chief business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis joins us with more on the talented media moguls incredible journey good morning Rebecca good morning robin yeah this is a great story a fun one women entrepreneurs and founders business leaders they are moguls they are creating businesses they are disrupting industries and Rihanna is among them she can now add billionaire to the top of her titles list here in the united states we'll often hear stories like these it's no secret that Americans love to hear about billionaires you'll find them everywhere they're on the news have their own tv shows movies and even make their way into elected office specifically we consistently give massive audiences to self-made billionaires the people who unlike the aristocrats and monarchs of yore didn't simply inherit their wealth in this episode we're talking about the obsession with so-called self-made billionaires how misleading that term can be and everything wrong with the myth of the self-made person at the heart of every favorable depiction of a billionaire is this idea that they have earned their success and their wealth the most compelling stories are those of billionaires who through sheer hard work and grit so we're told have conquered the American dream and made a better life for themselves those around them and our society as a whole but there are a number of reasons this is simply incorrect we'll get to exactly how this idea is wrong in a second but first we should talk about why the myth of self-made billionaires is such a problem for starters vanishingly few people ever become billionaires in the United States it's around 600 people or 0.0002 percent of the population perversely .
By Timothy Mwiti8 days ago in Chapters
Be amazed
- [Narrator] Remember when you used to draw animals as a kid using whatever crayons you had to hand? You probably created ridiculous things like purple polar bears, bright-yellow parrots, white lions and pink grasshoppers, but what if I told you all those things aren't as made-up as you might think? The animal kingdom is far more than you know, and coming up are some of the world's rarest creatures that definitely won the genetic lottery. (bright upbeat music) Melanistic Fox. When you think of the world's most beautiful wild animals, foxes probably don't spring to mind, but have you ever seen one like this before? This is the incredibly rare and majestic cross fox, which was once abundant in America until they were largely killed off in the late 19th century thanks to high demand for their unique fur. Cross foxes are almost identical to red foxes, but they have a larger, bushier tail with more wool under their feet. The cross fox was given its name thanks to the long, dark stripe running down its back, intersecting another stripe to form a cross over the shoulders. Their incredibly unique coat is the result of a partially-melanistic variant. Melanistic is basically the opposite of albinism, meaning that an abundance of dark- pigment is produced under the skin. Although melanistic foxes make up about 30% of the Canadian fox population, they're still a very rare sight to see, but there's an even more elusive kind; the silver fox. These mysterious foxes are a fully melanistic version of the cross fox created through years of breeding. As you can see, they have a glossy black undercoat with a topcoat that looks like they've been dusted with silver, as well as some white on the tip of their tails! One thing's for sure: you'd be incredibly lucky to see one of these foxes raiding your bins! King Cheetah. Notice anything out of the ordinary about this cheetah? Take a closer look at that magnificent coat when compared with its run-of-the-mill counterpart, and you'll see what makes them to behave as they does.
By Timothy Mwiti9 days ago in Chapters
The hidden means in nature
In 1917, Toribio Mejía Xesspe, a Peruvian archeologist, was flying over the Nazca Plateau, when he noticed something incredible. Massive line drawings — known as geoglyphs — stretching 175 square miles. Turns out these artworks, which depicted a monkey, a spider, plants, and more, were created around 500 BCE. What had compelled people thousands of years ago to work so hard to create images of the natural world? Some believe it may have been part of a spiritual practice, while others think it was functional — showing the locations of water sources. But whatever the purpose, this much is clear: human depictions of nature reveal as much about the people and the societies who made them, as they do about nature itself. Hi! I'm Sarah Green, and this is Crash Course Art History. [THEME MUSIC] We often think of art about nature as sort of…unbiased. A reflection of what is. Often beautiful. Sometimes, clichéd. But not political, usually, or deep, or containing hidden meanings. And yet, representations of the natural world are just that: re-presentations. Somebody had to pick which part of nature to include: what to highlight or exaggerate, and what to leave out. And usually those choices reveal something about the artist— both personally, and in the cultural context they’re coming from. Like, let’s look at some art from the Chinese landscape tradition. These two artworks display many of the same details. This visual repetition has served as a sort of code that let people read the works across centuries almost like you’d read a poem. And even the colors themselves were part of the code. Since as early as the 400s C.E., soft blue and green color palettes have been associated with dreamlike, magical environments, where humans live in balance with nature. An aspirational state in the religion of Chinese Daoism. Over time, Chinese painters built on this tradition, using the blue/green color palette to create natural landscapes that, while not magical, do invoke a sense of tranquility that can feel just as dreamlike.
By Timothy Mwiti9 days ago in Art
Richest man in world. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
If someone asked you who the richest people in history were, who would you name? Perhaps a billionaire banker or corporate mogul, like Bill Gates or John D. Rockefeller. How about African King Musa Keita I? Ruling the Mali Empire in the 14th century CE, Mansa Musa, or the King of Kings, amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived. But his vast wealth was only one piece of his rich legacy. When Mansa Musa came to power in 1312, much of Europe was racked by famine and civil wars. But many African kingdoms and the Islamic world were flourishing, and Mansa Musa played a great role in bringing the fruits of this flourishing to his own realm. By strategically annexing the city of Timbuktu, and reestablishing power over the city of Gao, he gained control over important trade routes between the Mediterranean and the West African Coast, continuing a period of expansion, which dramatically increased Mali's size. The territory of the Mali Empire was rich in natural resources, such as gold and salt. The world first witnessed the extent of Mansa Musa's wealth in 1324 when he took his pilgrimage to Mecca. Not one to travel on a budget, he brought a caravan stretching as far as the eye could see. Accounts of this journey are mostly based on an oral testimony and differing written records, so it's difficult to determine the exact details. But what most agree on is the extravagant scale of the excursion. Chroniclers describe an entourage of tens of thousands of soldiers, civilians, and slaves, 500 heralds bearing gold staffs and dressed in fine silks, and many camels and horses bearing an abundance of gold bars. Stopping in cities such as Cairo, Mansa Musa is said to have spent massive quantities of gold, giving to the poor, buying souvenirs, and even having mosques built along the way. In fact, his spending may have destabilized the regional economy, causing mass inflation. This journey reportedly took over a year, and by the time Mansa Musa returned, tales of h
By Timothy Mwiti9 days ago in Chapters
APPLE JUICE. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
apple cider vinegar I think is something that's been around for I think quite a while in the wellness space I myself as a registered nutritionist encounter it probably every week if I'm being honest in terms of the amount of people that come in having heard claims about weight loss about insulin sensitivity and there is a new study that came out in 2024 so it's a randomized control trial it's got good data behind it but we still need in my opinion a larger sample size when it comes to weight loss and the claims that apple cider vinegar has around it it's almost got what I call a health Halo [Music] impact a health Halo food is what we tend to call in the nutrition industry an item that is perceived as Superior to others so you probably heard the term a while ago superfoods for once it was protein you know protein was on every single packet on even chocolate bars and therefore people seem to think it's better for their health I feel like apple cider vinegar is one of those items now that people kind of have an idea that it's Associated or linked to health benefits therefore they are more likely to consume it for that reason the mechanisms are still not fully understood we've got rodent trials we have a very small amount of human trials and in fact the most recent study was conducted on overweight people and obese individuals there's also a confusion around links with diabetes so it may potentially be beneficial for type two diabetes that's a very different issue for people with type one which is [Music] autoimmune I would honestly say for people that are going to suddenly take a shot of apple cider vinegar please consult with your care professional and do it in the right way because it can cause all sorts of digestive discomfort if you haven't diluted it to the correct ratio for some people it can flare up digestive systems that are already underlying we're looking at very on the edge science I would say some that isn't quite robust enough for me to say on a public health level everyone should be taking .
By Timothy Mwiti9 days ago in Chapters
What's inside this crater in Madagascar. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
diverse places in the world. Almost all of its plants and animals aren’t found anywhere else on Earth. And when we looked at it from space, we saw a spot. A massive dark circle, almost perfectly round, over thirteen kilometers in diameter, and big enough that roads are diverted on either side of it. Looking at it from the side, we could see it was a mountain. And if you zoomed all the way in, you could see a village nestled in the crater at its center. 8 kilometers from the closest labeled town on Google Maps. Isolated in a remote part of a remote region of a geographically isolated country. It looked like it could have been there for generations. But if you looked backward through time … … each year … … it gets smaller and smaller … … and before 2008, there was no one there at all. I wanted to try to answer one question: Why did these people move to such an incredibly isolated place? I was really starting from zero here. I didn't know anyone in Madagascar. I didn't know that much about Madagascar. But the question was: could we get in touch with the people living here just by using the internet? The closest location tags were on the edges of the mountain: a butcher shop, a playground, and a historical landmark. But none of them were real — they all seemed to be random references to the popular Japanese manga and anime series Attack on Titan, written in Russian. The ones that did look real — churches, hospitals, schools — didn’t have much of a presence on the internet. So we looked at content that had been geotagged nearby. First on Twitter: using the coordinates of the village, and a search radius. Until finally at 12 kilometers away … … we found someone. A nonprofit worker who had posted from a nearby village in 2014. We asked if he knew about the village on the mountain. But he never got back to us. On Instagram, we looked for pictures tagged in the nearest town, and found an aid organization that had posted pictures t
By Timothy Mwiti9 days ago in Art