🌋 Amazing footage of a drone flying right through an erupting volcano in Iceland
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Watch this amazing footage of a drone flying right through an erupting volcano in Iceland. Last Friday, the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik began erupting for the first time in 800 years after the island nation was hit by thousands of small earthquakes. Thankfully, the eruption was small and has not put anyone in danger. (James Vincent via The Verge)
These undergraduates left university to build Flux, a payments startup now in YC. In the 170 years since Western Union was founded, no company has managed to solve two basic problems that continue to bedevil the remittance business — exorbitant fees and slow deposit times. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
Secret India-Pakistan Peace Roadmap Brokered by Top UAE Royals. About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world last month with a rare joint commitment to respect a 2003 cease-fire agreement, the top diplomat of the United Arab Emirates popped over to New Delhi for a quick one-day visit.(Sudhi Ranjan Sen via Bloomberg)
High-Income Tax Avoidance Far Larger Than Thought, New Paper Estimates. The top sliver of high-income Americans dodge significantly more in income taxes than the Internal Revenue Service’s methods had previously assumed, according to forthcoming estimates from IRS researchers and academic economists. (Richard Rubin via Wall Street Journal)
Why Obamacare Survived. Adapted from The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, St. Martin's Press 2021. The Affordable Care Act, the health-care law also known as Obamacare, turns 11 years old this week. (Jonathan Cohn via The Atlantic)
Krispy Kreme will offer free doughnuts—all year long—to people with COVID-19 vaccination cards.The chain says it will offer a free original glazed doughnut to anyone who shows their vaccination card for the rest of 2021, starting today. And the offer is not a one-time deal. (Chris Morris via Fortune)
Design For Human Beings Not Cars, New U.S. Transport Secretary Says. “In the 50s the mentality around roads was that they existed for one purpose and that was to move as many cars as you could as fast as you could,” the new U.S. transport secretary has told a conference. (Carlton Reid via Forbes)
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