After years of telling consumers that eating too much salt was bad for their health, a new report from the Institute of Medicine at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turns conventional wisdom on it’s head: There [is] no rationale for anyone to aim for sodium levels below 2,300 milligrams a […]
If you want to get on the show Shark Tank, and make a deal with the Shark’s, this excellent guide from Shopify will really be helpful to you: How to Get a Deal on ABC’s Shark Tank
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The Week: “Breaking up is hard to do. And for Craig Dershowitz, it’s getting awfully expensive. The 34-year-old New Yorker’s ex-girlfriend, Sarah Brega, took their dog, Knuckles, when she moved to California after their split, and he’s suing to get the puggle — half pug, half beagle — back. So far, he has spent $60,000
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If you’re a Barefoot Contessa fan like me, you know that she used to a work for the Gerald Ford White House. Ever wondered how she moved one from that to cookbooks and cooking shows? But Garten eventually fled government work for the same reason so many have since: gridlock. “I was working on exciting
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When you think of unmanned aerial vehicles, you probably think of the military uses, right? You might not be considering the true economic impact of the technology. The New Yorker has more: According to a recent report from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (A.U.V.S.I.), a trade group, over ninety per cent of the
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On this day in 1951 trains ran on the world’s first heritage railway. The Talyllyn Railway in Wales was the railway in the world to be operated by volunteers. Heritage railways are usually railway lines which were once run as commercial railways, but were later no longer needed or were closed down, and were taken
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NY Times: Tim Jahnigen has always followed his heart, whether as a carpenter, a chef, a lyricist or now as an entrepreneur. So in 2006, when he saw a documentary about children in Darfur who found solace playing soccer with balls made out of garbage and string, he was inspired to do something about it.
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Since 1953 and the release of the novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, the spy with a license to kill has been inspiring wardrobes, drink orders, and the definition of suave. But James Bond’s savvy doesn’t just end with fancy gadgets. In fact, James Bond is a land-mine of brilliant business strategies. This video from
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Rolling Jubilee is a non-profit that takes donations to buy debt for pennies on the dollar, and then abolishes it. Banks sell debt for pennies on the dollar on a shadowy speculative market of debt buyers who then turn around and try to collect the full amount from debtors. The Rolling Jubilee intervenes by buying
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1861 – Pakistan Railways opens the country’s first railways line, from Karachi to Kotri. 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM. 1958 –
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