Mother Nature Network has an interesting interview with worm wrangler Bentley Christie of RedWormComposting. Bentley Christie is a blogger, entrepreneur and composting worm guru. The father of two lives with his wife, children, two cats and “a bazillion” red wiggler worms in Ontario, Canada, where he spends his time running his business Red Worm Composting, […]
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Investor’s Business Daily: One of the first rules of entrepreneurship is identify a profitable niche and gain expertise in that space. Ron Clarke follows that rule to a tee. As chairman and chief executive of FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Clarke attributes the Norcross, Ga.-based firm’s growth to one word: focus. In 2011, its first year as
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Dogs seem drawn to David Feldman, with good reason. He’s an animal lover, and lives with dogs, cats, chickens, horses, and ducks at his little farm in Ipswich. And he said that he has lived a life devoted to animals. The certified small animal massage therapist was perched on a mat at the Gloucester Dog
According to Mashable, there might be an Apple-branded treadmill in the works. At least that’s the thrust of a patent the company applied for, which involves a “sports equipment apparatus†with smart components to let it interface with an iPod or iPhone. The patent application, made public yesterday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
For years the Japanese inventor Masuyuki Naruse has felt that the traditional gas and brake petal were flawed reports the New York Times. The side-by-side pedal arrangement, the inventor says, can cause drivers mistakenly to floor the accelerator instead of the brakes, especially under stress. The solution? A single pedal that accelerates the car when
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What lead to the invention of most safety products? Necessity. Here are two little inventions we shouldn’t live without. Duane Pearsall did not intend to create a smoke detector in 1965 – instead he was trying to measure static electricity in a dark room. He became irritated when the device, which was measuring the concentration
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