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May 08 2012
Learn From Unconventional Entrepreneurs: Help Others And Do What You Love

Learn From Unconventional Entrepreneurs: Help Others And Do What You Love

Chris Guillebeau’s new book, "The $100 Startup," traces the stories of successful entrepreneurs around the world who grew their businesses with no business background. The keys to making it are simpler than you think.

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Eating Yogurt Gives Mice Big Balls (You Should Try It!)

Eating Yogurt Gives Mice Big Balls (You Should Try It!)

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Besides generally making you healthy, a new study found that eating yogurt has some surprising benefits (at least in mice) including making their testicles, er, quite impressive.

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The Neighborhood Visualizer Maps The Resource Intensity Of Your City

The Neighborhood Visualizer Maps The Resource Intensity Of Your City

How much material did it take to build your house? How much energy did it use? This new interactive map tells you exactly how much you and your neighbors are using.

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Unreasonables, Episode 11: Using The Power Of Business To End Poverty

Unreasonables, Episode 11: Using The Power Of Business To End Poverty

What many of Brazil’s poorest people lack isn’t skills, but a marketplace. What if they had access to the shelves of the country’s biggest stores to sell what they make? It turns out, they can turn a tidy profit.

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Better Than An Igloo: Affordable, Efficient Homes In One Of The World’s Harshest Environments
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Better Than An Igloo: Affordable, Efficient Homes In One Of The World’s Harshest Environments

Image: Living Aleutian Home Design Competition

Building incredibly efficient buildings is hard enough, but it gets a lot harder when you have to make them be able to work in the freezing conditions of rural Alaska. These buildings do it, and cheaply, too.

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Brilliant Solar Ads Say Screw The Environment, It’s About Paying Less

Brilliant Solar Ads Say Screw The Environment, It’s About Paying Less

SunRun’s new ad campaign focuses on the financial realities of solar power: In many places it’s really cheap and the company will install your panels for free. It’s a new attitude for clean power marketing.

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The Future Of Collaboration

Can Online Video Usher In A New Age Of Empathy?

Can Online Video Usher In A New Age Of Empathy?

Written by: Hunter Walk

The power of the moving image to bring people together is having a global effect that’s never been seen before. Now that we all have access to the same media, can it connect us more strongly?

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