When George Osborne announced the official 2014 budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday 20th March, the much-anticipated plan cemented Britain’s economic outlook for the coming year. In a time when the country is still on the fragile upswing from years of recent fiscal woes, it was met with a predictable mixture of praise […]
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Americans get riled up about climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods; it’s all pseudoscience — so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others? The Daily Beast: I’m talking, of course, about Whole Foods Market. From the probiotics aisle to the vaguely ridiculous Organic Integrity outreach
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View a larger version here. If you like coffee and enjoyed this infograhic, you’ll probably like the book Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in Abyssinia to its role in intrigue in the American colonies to
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When I was young, and single, I used to visit bookstores. Not just because I loved to read, but also because I thought it might have been a good place to meet girls. (It wasn’t.) You can tell a lot about a person by the kinds of books they read. What reader hasn’t made a
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There is no other field of human activity—including entertainment, sports, high fashion, or politics—which is so riddled by fads as business. Every day there is a newspaper headline, every week there is a magazine story, and perhaps with the Internet we will soon be saying every hour there is yet another “guru†that touts a
I don’t recommend this “business opportunity,” but Rolling Stone has up an interesting profile about two pot-smoking teenagers who became millionaires from the War on Terror. The e-mail confirmed it: everything was finally back on schedule after weeks of maddening, inexplicable delay. A 747 cargo plane had just lifted off from an airport in Hungary
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The following is a guest post. If you’re interested in expanding your online portfolio and venturing into the world of stocks, shares and forex then you need to be fully aware of what’s affecting the markets. People who invest in forex and have a stock portfolio can generate large amounts of profit but, the risks
Need something to do this weekend? Extreme Kidnapping is a company that will kidnap you ta gunpoint, tie you up and hold you for ransom. Being abducted, gagged and bound is all part of the game. A GQ reporter recently tested out their service: I had to fly all the way to Detroit to get
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Yesterday, residents of Puerto Rico, an American territory, couldn’t vote for President but they could and did vote for something else even more historic: statehood! For the first time, a majority of Puerto Ricans voted in favor of statehood. Puerto Ricans were asked about their desires in two parts. First, by a 54% to 46%
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According to The Franchise King, Joel Libava, and author of Become a Franchise Owner! no matter what you think about Chil-fil-a’s politics, their franchise model is one of the most bizarre he’s ever seen: Potential franchisees only pay a $5,000 “Franchise Fee†Franchise owners don’t own a thing Franchisees maintain no equity in “their†business
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