Inside the lucrative world of falcon racing: The fastest birds can win millions at prestigious events in the Middle East. The birds are remarkable hunters and some species can reach speeds of more than 200mph as they swoop on their prey. Bedouins are skilled at training the raptors to catch game such as smaller birds, reptiles, and hares in the harsh desert conditions. The photographer Kiki Streitberger captured the prized raptors and their owners.
The Times
Beatles on the brink: How Peter Jackson pieced together the Fab Four’s last days: The director’s new documentary weaves together hours of unseen footage to dispel many myths about the band’s final months. John Harris, who was involved in the project, tells the inside story.
Guardian
Forget COP26 boasts — decarbonizing takes thousands of tiny, boring steps: Truly green companies redesign their products rather than buying offsets or planting trees.
Brooke Masters
Can entrepreneurship be taught in a classroom? As the pandemic reshapes entire industries, the need for agile entrepreneurs has never been more urgent. But traditional business education isn’t always optimized for preparing the next generation of leaders for an uncertain, rapidly changing world. Nevertheless, some business schools have pioneered new teaching models designed to teach entrepreneurship more effectively by focusing on “effectuation,” or leveraging existing resources to take action. New research sheds light on two new models for entrepreneurship education: Rotman’s operating theater classroom, in which startups are interrogated in front of an audience of students, and Darden’s rewiring approach, in which students are encouraged to embrace an action-oriented, collaborative mindset.
HBR
How Pappy Van Winkle became a wildly expensive, impossible-to-find unicorn: The fact of the matter is, there wasn’t just one thing that turned Pappy Van Winkle into an impossible-to-find unicorn. As more people started to talk about it, Pappy became famous for being famous.
Wine Enthusiast
Five Brigadoon Weekend Reads
