Dartmouth's first class of women graduated in 1976 — a fact Beilock cited when asked what she would do differently if building the institution from scratch.
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Dubner asks Beilock for her read on the current historical moment — is this chaos an interregnum or the beginning of something worse? She is characteristically optimistic but specific about what worries her: misinformation seeping through social media as fact, and the growing perception that a college education is a luxury good rather than a public good. This second point she frames as an existential trust problem: when significant portions of the American population across the political spectrum don't see college as a place for them, the university fails its civic function. Dubner invokes the literature on social trust — that sports teams and the military build it by bringing diverse people together around a common goal — and asks whether the university has failed at the same mission. Beilock concedes the university has stepped away from that function and must reclaim it by being relentlessly clear about its mission.
Dartmouth now offers free tuition for families earning up to $175,000 a year, part of its push to reduce economic barriers to elite education.
By his own account, Giacomo Casanova slept with over 120 women and contracted venereal disease 11 times — a life of extreme aesthetic indulgence that ended in total isolation.
Joel de la Garza noted that the CISO role is a relatively recent invention, with Steve Katz widely credited as the first-ever CISO.
Superficial adoption of electricity gave factories only 6% efficiency gains; fully redesigning factories around it delivered a 3x productivity improvement that powered 20th-century US growth.
Harold Ramis recounted that during Caddyshack filming, storms kept the cast cooped up in a Florida hotel for days, during which they partied and did drugs all day and night.
In the 1820s, China accounted for 25% of global economic output, making it the world's largest economic machine — a historical precedent for its current AI superpower ambitions.
66 Americans held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran were released after 444 days, within hours of Reagan's inauguration.
In the first round of the secret arms deal, 508 TOW missiles were transferred from Israel to Iran in exchange for hostage releases.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran across 8 separate shipments over just over a year.
Despite all the missile sales, only 3 of the 7 American hostages held by Lebanese terrorists were ultimately released.
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