Minnie Ingersoll, co-founder of the fast-growing car marketplace Shift, just became a VC in LA

Minnie Ingersoll has already had an enviable career. After 12 years at Google, working as product manager and later principal with Google.org, she co-founded the venture-backed online car marketplace Shift in 2013, then she left to join the nonprofit Code for America, where she learned […]

periodic table: Word of the day for March 6, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

periodic table , n : (chemistry) A tabular chart of the chemical elements according to their atomic numbers so that elements with similar properties are in the same group (column). On this day 150 years ago in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first […]

Wikipedia article of the day for March 6, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

The Wikipedia article of the day for March 6, 2019 is Al-Mu’tasim. Al-Mu’tasim (796–842) was the eighth Abbasid caliph. A younger son of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, he rose to prominence as a key lieutenant of his brother Caliph al-Ma’mun after forming a private army composed […]