Steve Cohen's $3.4 Billion Payday Tops Hedge Fund Ranks
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-19 17:39
The New York Mets had a brutal season, but their owner, he just had a $3.4% billion year. While fans were watching losses pile up in Cityfield, Steve Cohen was quietly topping Bloomberg's list of highest earning hedge fund managers. Cohen earned about $3.4% billion from his 72 last year.That's more than $9 million a day. Enough to cover the annual salaries of roughly 67 Juantos or buy about a million hot dogs every day for a year. Not bad for someone whose previous firm SACE Capital pleaded guilty to inside ...
If Life Were A Mathematical Problem, What Score Would You Get? | Kate Zhu | TEDxSCIE Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 17:37
So hello everyone. Um thank you for the host introduction. Um when I look back myself at the age of 16 and 20 when I first got into Oxford that young lady there um I would never imagine now I standing on a stage of TED talk and you know giving a sharing for you. Um if I look back At the age of 20, I am a single threaded high achiever in a hierarchical meritocracy structure.So all I think about is getting a grade A, getting the first place, joining a big company like JP Morgan and Goldman, earning millions e ...
Explaining the unique rink size for men's hockey that's caused a stir at the Olympics
NBC News· 2026-02-19 17:37
All right, for the first time in more than a decade, there's going to be NHL players back at the Olympics. Sochi 2014 was the last time we saw them. And things have changed for the NHL players at these Olympics.The biggest change involving the rink itself. So, this is an NHL rink right here. And this is what is normally used for a rink in international competition.You can see the NHL rink. It's narrower, much narrower, more than 13 feet than the international rink. And it is a little bit longer.Now, let me ...
Smoke that codes: Women in tech, AI, & evolution of power | Krystal Trashawn Morris | TEDxChinotimba
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 17:34
How many of you have ever thought who teaches the machines to think right so who teaches the machines to think well as artificial intelligence learns from our languages our data and our everyday decisions it's also learning who we are but what is the story it's learning is missing half of humanity voice that for the women from this and that is the foundation of my talk today. I have over 20 years of experience in education. I have taught robotics, science and math and I have built STEM programs for our yout ...
How virtual reality cures your fear of public speaking | Dr Chris Macdonald | TEDxSurreyUniversity
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 17:32
create the most effective treatment for the fear of public speaking and makement instantly and freely available to everyone. That was a goal that I had set in my lab in Cambridge. And I'm happy to say that I believe that I ended up achieving that goal.And the journey itself led to multiple surprising breakthroughs that may well shape the future of skills acquisition, education, and healthcare. So why was I interested in the fear of public speaking. Glossophobia or the fear of public speaking is widely cited ...
Family of Virginia Giuffre reacts to news of former Prince Andrew's arrest
NBC News· 2026-02-19 17:31
I'm not sure that has fully hit us yet. I think um it feels like this surreal moment uh a piece of justice that like Virginia has been fighting for this entire time. And um I think we're just so proud. We're so proud. We're so freaking proud of our sister right now.You know, the thing that keeps resonating in my head is is when my sister, you know, she famously said, and I I'm just going to paraphrase this now, but like they know what happened. We know what happened, and only one of us is telling the truth, ...
Rewriting the story of birth | Marleen Temmerman & Stephan Balzer | TEDxBerlin Salon
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 17:30
So when we prepared if you um try to understand what you have achieved it's really difficult because you need so much time to put it all together. You've been in education. You've been a you've been a ginologist yourself. You've been in public health. You've been an elected senator in Belgium as well against your will.You just told me. You didn't know this, right. You actually didn't want to do it and then they said you have to do it.You've been in academia. Um you published more than 600 books. You've supe ...
Empowering high school students to think big | Tyler Tang | TEDxManhattanBeach
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 17:30
Hi there. It's my pleasure today to introduce to you Tyler Tang. As a proud MBUSD graduate, Tyler started his journey at Robinson Elementary, continued on at Manhattan Beach Middle School to also excel at Mira Costa High School, where he led the student body as student body president his senior year, was a student athlete and really engaged in the student community.Now a student at UC Irvine, Tyler is majoring in cognitive science with a minor in biological sciences. And he continues to lead with purpose as ...
In not understanding: Finding ourselves through contemporary music | Xiaoyu Lin | TEDxSCIE Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 17:30
Thank you so much for being here. So before my talk, I do have a few question for you all. So do any of you enjoy visiting our gallery in your leisure time.Please raise your hand if that is for you. Yay. Yay.So are there any enthusiast of contemporary art. any. Yes.So for those who have encountered contemporary arts, have you ever found it difficult to comprehend. Right. So you're in the right place.Great. In the autumn of 2022, I held my first solo recital featuring entirely contemporary works in Shenzhen ...
One of @PhoebeGates original ideas, before startup Phia, was smart tampons.
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-19 17:30
It doesn't just happen overnight, right. It's not like I woke up one day and was like, "Oh, let's go raise $43 million." It started with, you know, 14 different ideas that were absolute failures that me and Sophia tried. There are a lot of really interesting things we looked into.One of our original ideas was literally a smart tampon. Electric cruise ships are really exciting. For a lot of those ideas, it was like, "Okay, yes, this can be a viable business, and yes, maybe society definitely does need electr ...