Space, Sea, and the Nudge That Saved His Life

Travel Tales by AFAR by Afar

Jul 17, 202551:18Society & Culture

Jim Kitchen, professor of entrepreneurship at UNC Chapel Hill, has visited all 193 countries, rocketed 66 miles into space with Blue Origin, and descended seven miles to the ocean's deepest point—but his most important j...

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