Colossal Fissure In Africa Will Pave The Path For A New Ocean
It seems like the world's second biggest continent is starting to create conditions for the world's sixth ocean!
The two tectonic plates beneath the continent of Africa are slowly but surely moving away from each other. The tectonic movement has created a crack in the desert that could house a new ocean in the future. The fissure, located in Ethiopia, has reached lengths of 60 kilometers in recent years and sealed itself with 2.5 cubic kilometers of molten rock, as volcanoes are coming alive and erupt on the surface. This volcanic activity is identical to what happens at the bottom of the oceans. It will eventually create a basin for a new ocean.
The only eruption of the Dabbahu volcano in recorded history occurred on September 26, 2005. The eruption began 5 kilometers northeast of the summit, while ash from the eruption darkened the area surrounding the volcano for nearly 3 days. It was this eruption that formed the 37 mile long fissure. The tectonic plates are moving apart at a rate of 2 centimeters each year, so when the fissure completes itself, it will span from from the <a href="https://rumble.com/v4x9y3-dolphins-in-the-red-sea-photographed-by-meni-meller.html" target="_blank">Red Sea</a> in the north, taking water from the Gulf of Aden, all the way down to the Horn of Africa, separating it from the rest of the continent. From a crack in the desert to the world’s sixth ocean.
Even though the new ocean splitting the African continent is only growing about as fast as a fingernail, scientists are monitoring the changes with bated breath. After all, the ability to witness a process that is typically inaccessible has the makings of a once-in-a-career opportunity. How long will you have to wait until you can dip your toes in this new ocean? We guess that you could make an arrangement in about a million years or so. Don’t grab your <a href="https://rumble.com/v49x87-surfer-rides-monster-wave-off-the-coast-of-portugal.html" target="_blank">surfboard</a> yet, you still have time to get ready.
The Earth is an ever-changing planet, even though in some respects change might be almost unnoticeable to us. Plate tectonics is a good example of this. But every now and again something dramatic happens and leads to renewed questions about the African continent splitting in two. The Earth’s lithosphere (formed by the crust and the upper part of the mantle) is broken up into a number of tectonic plates. These plates are not static, but move relative to each other at varying speeds, “gliding” over a viscous asthenosphere. Exactly what mechanism or mechanisms are behind their movement is still debated, but are likely to include convection currents within the asthenosphere and the forces generated at the boundaries between plates.
These forces do not simply move the plates around, they can also cause plates to rupture, forming a rift and potentially leading to the creation of new plate boundaries. The East African Rift system is an example of where this is currently happening. When the lithosphere is subject to a horizontal extensional force it will stretch, becoming thinner. Eventually, it will rupture, leading to the formation of a rift valley.
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Considered Extinct For 80 Years, This Giant Insect Makes an Unlikely Comeback
When it comes to extinctions, it is as serious an issue as any. The end of a species as a very grave concern. There's talk about the return of the wool mammoth for some time now, but here we will tell you about something else that came out of extinction – the noble tree lobster.
It isn't an actual lobster, you see, so don't expect to see it on the menu at your local lobster place. Also known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect (a mouthful, we know), they were nocturnal stick insects that made excellent fishing bait. They couldn't fly though, as they were the largest insects on the planet, but they could sure run fast!
The noble tree lobster met his demise in 1918, when a supply ship called SS Makambo ran aground off the coast of Lord Howe island. By the time the ship was refloated, the black rats from the ship escaped and populated the island, which caused an ecological disaster. Apparently, the rodents found the stick insects a true delight and munched them into extinction.
By the 1960s, these insects were thought extinct, as not a single individual has been seen since the 1920s. What scientists didn't know is that 20 kilometers off the coast of Lord Howe lies Ball's pyramid, a 1844 feet high and 3600 feet long volcanic stack in the middle of the ocean. In 2001 explorers found feces under a bush – the only one of the rock formation – and went to search for the long lost bug.
Out of the 20-30 individual population that was discovered to the delight of the explorers,two couples were removed for breeding purposes. Today there are hundreds of live adult and thousands of eggs ready to go back home, to Lord Howe Island.
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The Woman Who Survived a 10,000 Foot Fall
When a 17-year old girl celebrated Christmas by falling 10,000 feet from a plane she proved Santa might not need to be packing a parachute.
As far as holiday airport mayhem goes, chances are the 92 occupants (86 passengers and 6 crew) of the propeller powered LANSA Flight 508 flying between the Peruvian cities of Lima and Pucallpa had probably all seen worse.
For some of them, the seven hour wait in the busy airport a day before Christmas might have been the most frustrating thing. Two of said passengers were Juliane Koepcke and her mother Maria, traveling home to meet her father.
At the 40 minute mark of what was supposed to be an hour long flight, Flight 508 hit a thunderstorm in a pitch black sky. As the plane continued further into the storm, its body began to shake violently.
Juliane was in the midst of a 10.000 foot free fall, when she fell unconscious. When she did come around, she was on the ground in dense rain forest, with with a severe concussion and a broken collarbone, a scrape on one arm and a deep gash on her leg, the rest of the plane scattered across almost 6 square miles
Despite being heavily injured and unsuitably dressed for the jungle, the 17-year-old set out to find her mother. With a bag of sweets she found in the wreckage as her only source of food, she struggled to get out of the wreckage. Eventually she stumbled across a group of lumbermen, maggots falling from her open wounds. The men took her to a nearby village, where a pilot flew her to a hospital in a town called Pucallpa, where she was finally reunited with her father.
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The Biggest Mass Shooting In U.S. History Happened 100 Years Ago
The largest mass shooting in the U.S. took place in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was encouraged in part by the police.
Greenwood, a segregated area of Tulsa was thriving thanks to a local oil boom and the district earned itself the nickname “Black Wall Street”. The white population was resentful of the success of the African-Americans.
Tensions boiled over when a black man was suspected of assaulting a white woman. An angry mob gathered at the courthouse where the man was detained. <a href="https://rumble.com/v3rhg3-surviving-a-mass-shooting.html" target="_blank">Gunshots were fired</a> between blacks and whites.
The next day, a white mob descended on Greenwood and burned it to the ground. Police deputized 500 whites as Special Deputies. Up to 300 black people were murdered, mostly by gunfire. Some of them by the deputized whites who were also torching the neighborhood. More than 1,200 homes were looted and burned, 9,000 people were left homeless. <a href="https://rumble.com/v3rnw1-las-vegas-mass-shooting-deadliest-in-us-history.html" target="_blank">Lest we forget</a>!
The phrase "Lest we forget" is commonly used in war remembrance services and commemorative occasions in English speaking countries, in particular Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day. Before the term was used in reference to soldiers and war, it was first used in a 1897 Christian poem written by Rudyard Kipling called "Recessional".
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10 Human Emotions You Didn’t Know Had Names
People experience a plethora of emotions throughout there life. Some are more common than others such as; sadness, happiness, anger and fear. There are even more emotions however and we bet that there are some that you have experienced but never knew the names of. Here are the "10 Human Emotions You Didn’t Know Had Names!"
Some of these emotions are truly unique. Most of us didn't even realize that these feelings talked about in this video were their own emotions. We just usually group these feeling with other major emotions like happy, sad, scared, etc. It is good to know that some of those feeling you felt are recognized and have their own emotions. Now you do not have to feel so weird if you experience them! Who knew that some of these emotions even existed? What we do know is that this is one entertaining and interesting video that no one should miss!
Have you ever experienced any of these emotions before? Have you experienced some emotions that you just don't know the name of? Let us know down in the comments section! Please share this video with your family and friends as it will surely interest them!
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10 Notable Women of History in Science
Let’s be honest: we take science and technology for granted. Just be glad that these women didn’t, because they changed our world forever with their efforts.
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The Forgotten Fighters of the AIDS Epidemic
AIDS and its legacy have devastated millions of people around the globe since the 1980s. While hard-fought progress has been made, every day lives from every section of society are still being lost to the condition. Until HIV and AIDS are wiped out, the fight must carry on.
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The Christmas Island Miracle: The Migration of the Bright Red Crab
There are an estimated 40 to 50 million Red Crabs on Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. When “wet season” comes, the island experiences “rivers of red”, as the Red Crabs begin their migration towards the ocean.
Their migration is in sync with the lunar cycle. Why, you might ask? Well, because these red crabs go near the ocean to begin their mating rituals! Sounds quite romantic, doesn’t it, full moon and the ocean?
Islanders have accepted their rituals and support them so much, that they have built fences on the sides of the roads, underpasses and bridges to help the crabs travel safely towards their ultimate spawning destination.
There, the males will dig burrows, where they will inseminate their chosen females. The female Red Crabs can produce up to 100,000 eggs in a season and she will stay with them in the burrow for the next 12 days. At the 12th day mark, the females exit the burrows just before dawn, when the outgoing tide is perfect for hatching the eggs upon impact.
Most if the juvenile crabs will get eaten by the predators in the ocean, but those who do survive will come back and begin the next chapter of The Christmas Island Miracle!
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The High-Diving Horses That Risked Death Every Day to Entertain People
Making a horse jump 60 feet into a pool of water used to be considered fun. For the people watching, not necessarily the horse.
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Los Angeles’ Forgotten Hollywood Subway
When you think of Los Angeles, the first thing that comes to mind has to be the movie stars and the glamour. Like one of the gems that keep reappearing in those Hollywood movies, Los Angeles has a darker side – it's terrible traffic.
Traffic in LA has been terrible even a century ago, which prompted railway magnate E.H. Harriman to hatch a plan to bring the underground railways system to Los Angeles in 1907. It wasn't until LA's dependency on cars balooned 15 years later that the construction plants were finally in place.
It was supposed to be crown jewel to the city's already existing Pacific Electric Railway, considered to be one of the country's leading public transit systems. It was only the second electric-powered subway, after New York City. It took commuters mere 15 to 20 minutes to cross the city for mere 6 cents.
Then, 30 years later, “evil” enterprises come in, destroy all public mass-transit and start building freeways up and down Los Angeles, so that citizens may drive their cars, again. National City Lines, financed by General Motors, The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and Philips Petroleum bought PER and dismantled everything associated with it, ALLEGEDLY so that LA's commuters would again be forced to rely on the gas-powered GM buses and car in general.
The Belmont Tunnel was closed off and the Subway Terminal Building, which could service up to 50.000 commuters in it's prime days, was turned into condos.
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10 Inventors Who Lived to Regret Their Inventions
You know their creations, but these inventors aren't proud of their handiwork.
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The Secret Nuclear City Under Greenland’s Ice Cap
It seemed innocent enough at the time-build an underground polar research station to study ice core samples. What people didn't know about was the covert plan to set up a nuclear launch pad capable of firing off hundreds of missiles at Russia.
The U.S. Army has left a ticking time bomb in Greenland—but it doesn’t take the form that you might think…this powder keg is environmental in nature.
In 1959, the Army Corps of Engineers commenced “Project Iceworm”, an effort to build secret nuclear missile launch sites under the ice of Greenland. A base called Camp Century was established, and an underground city of sorts was created. The official cover for the base was as a research station, investigating ice construction techniques.
When they discovered that the constantly moving ice is unstable for future construction, Camp Century was abandoned, leaving a small city complete with a theater, a chapel and it’s very own nuclear reactor.
The reactor was removed in 1967, but a great deal of toxic waste is still left behind, and what with global warming taking its toll on the ice caps, that waste leaking into the world’s ocean is just a matter of a century or two.
“Out of sight” doesn’t always mean “Out of mind” too.
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The Art of The Human Brain
Self Reflected’ is being called the most complex and detailed artistic depiction of our brain ever. The artwork was designed so everyone can marvel at the wonder of human consciousness. Here are the incredible results. #awesome
Dr. Greg Dunn and Dr. Brian Edwards have built the most realistic visualization of the human brain ever constructed. They entitled it “Self Reflected”, because it is your own brain perceiving itself.
Current brain scan technology doesn't have the capability to scan the neurons of the brain, so the scientists used deep research and algorithmic simulations, along with hand drawings and photolithography, to illustrate the brain in detail.
The resulting image contains circuitry of 500.000 neurons! They made 25 etched plates in a similar fashion as computer chips are made. Every neuron was modeled by blowing ink along paper and scanning it into a computer and each one was then used as a building block to “paint” the entire brain slice.
The visualization was made so that everyone can marvel in the wonder that is human consciousness. The human brain cells in action share a passing resemblance to the cosmic web.
Dr. Greg Dunn has said for Caters News: “Our shared privilege of having one of these magnificent machines in our skulls can help to remind us to use it wisely and compassionately.”
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Brace Yourselves For A Journey Through America's Lost Medieval City
It’s a puzzle that might have enticed Indiana Jones. Let’s say there was a metropolis from ancient times hidden in North America. Where would it be?
This city was bigger than Paris or London at the time it existed, and it housed approximately 30,000 people. That’s about the size of Juneau Alaska today (if you include the surrounding boroughs). If this estimate is correct, it was the largest city in the United States until the 1780s, when the population of Philadelphia finally surpassed it. So where was this lost historic capital?
The city was called Cahokia. It hit its peak population in the year 1050, and then it was abandoned by the year 1400. We don’t even know the name of the people who lived there. The city is named after the Cahokia tribe which lived in the area, but for the record, the Cahokia tribe claimed no connection with the city; it was the European explorers who named it.
The whole area was designated as a state historical site about 40 years ago, and made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. It is always comforting to see history receive the recognition it so richly deserves, but this ancient metropolis also has a lesson for all of us in modern times: the greatest cities of mankind are often very dependent on specific environmental circumstances, and if those circumstances change they can have a very dramatic impact on the people who live in and around them. (source: www.interestingshit.com)
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Photographer Visits Buran, Russia's Mothballed Space Shuttle
Here we have quite the adventure where couple of guys form Interesting Shit group have decided to visit a long forgotten Soviet Shuttle Station that is located somewhere in the middle of the dessert.
They have quite the journey that takes them travelling by plane, a car and on foot to reach their destination. These guys travel over 1600 kilometers in the hope to discover a long abandoned space station.
On their travel they face a couple of minor barriers which ends up making the trip double the fun.
Once they reach their destination it proves to be quite the mysterious sort of place. Its a huge garage looking place with massively giant iron doors. The kind of security you would invest in if you wanted to be isolated basically from everything and everyone else.
The story takes a even more interesting turn once they get inside. Their jaws drops once they feast their eyes on all the wonders inside this massive building. Must see and find out the whats and whose is waiting for these guys on the inside.
Quite the story we have on our hands here!
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Narco Subs Are the Wave of the Future in Cocaine Smuggling
If you think the Navy is the only one using submarines, then think again!
Built by hand from marine-grade plywood and fiberglass, the Columbian drug cartels pack these single-use semi-submersibles to the gills with enough coke to make the hardest junkies throw the nirvana od parties! Woohooo!
Cocaine smuggling is constant because the people who do business with it makes sweet, sweet money, plain and simple. To put into perspective, the U.S. Coast Guard has seized $1.8 million dollars worth of powder from both boats and subs before the fall of 2015, which is more than the previous three years put together. They estimate that only one in four vessels are intercepted.
But how do they get past unnoticed? With the improvements in technologies, like the self-propelled semi-submersibles, these vessels are very low profile and can only go a few feet underwater, while traveling at about 11 miles per hour, leaving virtually no wake and making them undetectable by radar and sonar.
How ingenious did they get? In November of 2006 the Coast Guard captured a semi-submersible developed with such ingenuity, that would leave the A-Team in shame. The engineer behind that sub, or rather the high school graduate, was a guy named Mauner Mahecha. His sub was made from Kevlar and fiberglass, measuring 74 feet in length and painted camo blue and could go ten days without refueling at depths of 60 feet.
Pablo Escobar would be proud!
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Port Royal: The Sunken Pirate City in Jamaica
The greatest pirate story in history isn't the newest Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It happened almost three centuries ago in the city of Port Royal, Jamaica.
Port Royal had a world wide reputation as being “The most wicked and sinful city in the world”. Back in the 17th century, Jamaica was a British colony and part of the Caribbean trading routes. Since it was economically the most important port in all of the English colonies, the Governor of the settlement enlisted the “services” of a pirate group called “Brethren of the Coast”, which included names like Blackbeard and Captain Henry Morgan (sound familiar?). Their job was to protect the bounty which made Port Royal the richest colony of the British empire.
How did they do that? By attacking the Spanish ships, as the Spanish shipping interests were considered to be a threat to the growth of the town.
All privateers were sanctioned by the British crown with an official letter (a Pirate license), which obligated them to pay a portion of all booty to the town government. But even with this tax that they had to pay, privateers could spend up to two to three times the annual wage of a plantation worker's wage in a single night, because money was not something they were short on. Even though the city had a cathedral and several churches, about a quarter of it was bars and brothels, so you can probably guess where they spent all that gold.
What was once the second biggest city in the New World, after Boston came to a crash on the faithful day June 7th. A massive earthquake struck the city, followed by a tsunami. The local clergy referred to the natural even as “God's punishment”, with the death of over 2000 people.
The ruins are listed as a UNESCO world heritage site are still vastly unexplored to this day.
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Las Vegas Keeps The Neon Lights On And The Homeless Underground
Vegas is a tale of two cities. There’s fun Vegas: the one that last year welcomed over 42 million visitors to its oasis-in-the-desert location, enticing them with its promise of booze fueled never-ending good times and the possibility of winning big bucks on a slot machine or blackjack table.
Then there’s not-so-fun Vegas, the Vegas where the city’s laser-like focus on tourism has trumped the need to provide adequate care on its social services front. Many of the flood tunnel dwellers are examples of the city’s inability to properly address the fallout of an economy that’s based primarily on activities that stoke the fires of addiction.
Welcome to the 300 or so miles of flood tunnels inhabited by approximately 1,000 homeless people fighting to survive under America’s original city of sin.
That flooding is a constant threat for the occupants, some of whom have built semi-permanent elevated living spaces on top of discarded boxes and crates that keep what possessions they have out of the standing mix of water and sewage but aren’t structurally sound enough to withstand floodwaters.
A Las Vegas-based author Matthew O’Brien founded Shine a Light, an organization which works in tandem with HELP of Southern Nevada to supply basic day-to-day necessities as well as addiction counselling and medical services to those living in the tunnels. He’s also started a Crowdrise fundraiser, the proceeds from which are immediately put to use giving support to those who now have to call the tunnels ‘home’. (source:www.interestingshit.com)
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8 Worst Jobs Kids Used to do
Most adults today have a story about a horrible job they held as a kid, but as bad as they thought it might have been the odds are overwhelming it wasn't nearly as awful (or lethal) as what children were expected to do in the past.
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The Great Boat Lift of 9/11
During the 9/11 attacks if it floated, it was needed. Half a million New Yorkers rescued by a Coast Guard-led fleet of tugboats and yachts.
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Glacier Girl: The Story of the Impossible Plane
It seems that Captain America wasn't the only one who got buried under tons of ice during World War 2 and got successfully recommissioned 50 years later.
During WW2, America made a squadron of airplanes to be flown across the Atlantic in the fight against the Nazis. In 1945, 6 of the airplanes had to make an emergency landing on Greenland due to the bad weather. The pilots were all rescued, but the airplanes had to be left behind and unrecovered for decades.
Fast forward 50 years into the future, a group of aviation enthusiasts went back to the Greenland in an attempt to recover the aircrafts. Time has made the airplanes drift a mile and were now buried under 27 stories of ice.
The team invented a machine they called Super Gopher, which pumped superheated water to drill a hole through the ice and reach the airplanes. The one plane they found most intact got dismantled and brought up back to the surface. They called her Glacier Girl. Each piece of the craft traveled 20 minuted up to the surface along the narrow shaft. The last and heaviest piece, weighing 3 tonnes, saw the first light of day of 50 years on August 1st, 1992.
in 2002, Glacier Girl was completely reconstructed and able to lift off the ground once more.
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HeroRats Are Saving Human Lives With Their Noses
They're smart & have a sense of smell that rivals that of the family canine. These rats hunt out landmines & disease faster than humans ever could.
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1816: The Year Without Summer
In 1816 folks had a good excuse to complain about the weather, thanks to a huge volcanic eruption from Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year, making it the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Worldwide famine, floods & disease - all thanks to enough toxic ash in the sky to turn summer into winter.
Exactly 200 years ago, we had a year that is actually known as “the year without a summer”. In 1815, Mount Tambora (located in Indonesia) blew its top. But just how large was this event? Volcano eruptions are measured on a scale called the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), measuring explosivity, volume of ash and the height ash reaches into the atmosphere. For comparison,the eruptions of Mount St. Helens and Vesuvius were only ranked as 5’s on the index. The eruption of
Mount Tambora was a 7, making it the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. While the immediate area surrounding the volcano was burned and crops further away were covered in ash, the eruption caused a disruption in monsoon season in south-east Asia. In other parts of the world, the cloud caused a sudden and prolonged drop in temperatures, which led to perfect condition for the outbreak of cholera.
Not everything was as black and white, though. While the volcano was “throwing shade”, we started paving the road towards modern medicine, we got fantastic literature and Baron Karl Drais invented what is now known as the predecessor of the bicycle. See, something good can come out of bad things.
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Ota Benga: The Man Who Was Kept in a New York Zoo
1906. The Bronx Zoo stuck an African pygmy in a cage, told the masses he was a cannibal, & watched the zoo’s attendance double as a result.
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Larry Brilliant, The Hippie Doctor That Helped Cure Smallpox
This is the story of the hippie doctor that helped cure smallpox. Dr. Lawrence ‘Larry’ Brilliant was a former doctor for the Grateful Dead, who showed that spirituality and compassion can be key to medical breakthroughs.
He attended one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s lectures in 1962 and it changed a teenage Brilliant’s life forever. King’s lecture inspired Brilliant to do everything he could to assist those in need of help all around the world. It was a moment that led to the future doctor’s focus on global activism and awareness.
Larry Brilliant marched in civil rights rallies. He protested alongside the Native Americans on Alcatraz island.
While on a pilgrimage across the Himalayas in 1972, one Hindu guru told Brilliant his destiny: to find the cure for one of worst pandemics the human race has ever encountered - smallpox. This inspired the young 27-year-old doctor to leave for New Delhi and join the World Health Organization. A few years later, Brilliant would lead a WHO team that will be key in the eradication of the disease.
Today, his own SEVA foundation has helped 4 million blind people see again. “Seva” means “service to others” in Sanskrit.
He has been the executive director of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. He also chaired the Skoll Global Threats fund, continuing his fight against global pandemics.
In essence, Dr. Larry Brilliant is proof that caring for people can make the world a better place.
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