An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can’t afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
Electric Avenue
Photos Of The New Electric DeLorean: Back To The Future Of Cars
It’s no flux capacitor, but the power source for the newest DeLorean are futuristic: batteries. The original model may not have caught on outside of Marty McFly, but perhaps a new electric version will.
Operation Rhino Drop
Photo by: Green Renaissance/WWF
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YouTube U: The Power Of Stanford’s Free Online Education
Written by: EdSurge
Taught by two Googlers and available on YouTube free of charge, the class might be the largest instance of group education in the world, and the students--even around the world--seem to be eating it up.
The Brands That Survive Will Be The Brands That Make Life Better
A new study about consumer engagement finds that companies that aren’t making a difference--to the world and to consumers--aren’t going to be around much longer. Instead of just making your product incrementally better than the competitor, you need to create impact.
Butterfly Effect
The Bacon Uprising: How China’s Top-Secret Strategic Pork Reserve Is Burning Down The Amazon
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: The Chinese middle class is eating more and more meat, and Beijing wants to keep prices low. That means finding a way to feed all those pigs with grain imported from land cut from the Brazilian rainforest, leading to conflict within the BRICs.
