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The World's Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - 0 views

  • The tallest of the tall is 379 feet 4 inches, 10 feet taller than the Giant. It's now called
  • "Hyperion
  • "its mass is equivalent to 15 adult blue whales, the largest animal on earth. Each year, this tree produces enough new wood to make a 90-foot-tall tree with a trunk 12 inches in diameter. If all of Del Norte Titan were cut into boards one foot wide, 12 feet long and one inch thick, the line of planks laid end to end would stretch over a hundred miles and could build 120 average-sized houses."
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  • This video, which comes with dramatic music in all the right places, is, to use a much overused word, but I'll use it anyway..."awesome":
Innovation Blues

Success Story: Larry Ellison Founder of Oracle - 0 views

  • Success Story
  • Founder of Oracle
  • rags-to-riches tale
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  • Ellison became a bright student, but was not apparently committed to an existence in academia; quitting the University of Chicago after one term, and moving to North California to work for the Amdahl Corporation.
  • Not bad for an adoptee from the Bronx who never met his father.
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