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I was accepted to Caltech, MIT, and several other cool schools. I only put down the stuff that Caltech and MIT saw when they admit

Long's Digest   Top Stories For You   To those who were admitted to Harvard, MIT or Caltech, what were your profile, grades and extracurriculars? Sarah, Caltech Class of 2020 • Answered July 30, 2016 I was accepted to Caltech, MIT, and several other cool schools. I only put down the stuff that Caltech and MIT saw when they admitted me, because that's probably all that's... Read More » 302.6K 956 14   During ancient times, how did people know if a piece of something was edible? Shigeyuki • Answered April 20 There is an interesting episode in Jared Diamond's book (Guns, Germs, and Steel). The scholar Jared has been in the field of biology for 33 years in New Guinea. Jared often ... Read More » 120.5K 4.7K 79   Why are Myanmar's neighbors not supporting the US-led Western criticism of Myanmar over the military coup? Huijian Wu, CTO (2005-present) • Answered April 2 If I use an answer that the West likes, it is that none of these neighbouring countries like Western democracy. In fact, Burma is surrounded by a complex situation, from cou... Read More » 15.6K 195 28   Why do many Chinese people think that China would be worse off with a Western-style liberal democracy? Feifei Wang, lives in San Diego, CA (2016-present) • Answered January 26 So during the 80s (that's before Tiananmen Square Protest), China was really on this trajectory of being a democratic capitalist country. Deng Xiao Ping started this whole ... Read More » 18.8K 535   Why wasn't Gaul the breadbasket of Rome instead of Egypt? Gaul was mostly made of vast fertile plains while Egypt only had fertile land near the Nile, mostly being desert. Dimitris Almyrantis, Lover of stories the world has forgotten (2016-present) • Answered September 4 Both Egypt and Africa-Tunisia (easily accessible to Rome by ship) were "breadbaskets" of the Roman period. Gaul was anything but "fertile plains". The great river basins of... Read More » 95.7K 3.0K 11 Read More in Your Feed

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