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Watch This Insanely Slippery Non-Stick Coating Get Every Last Bit Out Of Bottles

Consumers expend a remarkable amount of energy (and muscle) interacting with household goods. We're constantly shaking bottles of mustard or salad dressing, praying the condiments will eventually ...

Jan 20

Mall rats: Brazilian flash mob forces closure of luxury shopping center

Protests by Brazil's poor against the rich have taken a new turn. Local black youths are taking to shopping malls usually visited by the wealthy, cooking barbecues and dancing. The seemingly ...

Jan 20

I set up Parasite Street to balance the benefits debate

Yes, the show focuses on relatively minor parts of the benefits system (benefit fraud) whilst ignoring other, more widespread phenomena (in-work poverty). But the show has started a national ...

Jan 19

Jan 19

America's Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead

Edward Snowden has made some dangerous enemies. As the American intelligence community struggles to contain the public damage done by the former National Security Agency contractor's revelations of

Jan 19

More Than Half of Kenya's Electricity Will Come From Solar Power by 2016

Kenya recently laid out an ambitious plans to construct nine solar power plants at a cost of $1.2 billion, with the hope that they will provide more than half the country's electricity by 2016. The

Jan 19

12 Year Old Girl Tells The SHEEPLE the Truth about ROTHSCHILD CORRUPT BANKERS and ECONOMY When Ron Paul stands up in front of a crowd and explains the fictional-reserve banking system's unreality ...

Jan 19

Ron Paul: Iceland Dismantles Corrupt Gov't Then Arrests All Rothschild

Jan 19

Civic Consumption Puts the "We" in the Sharing Economy

Civic Consumption is "the leveraging of shared buying power for dynamic social change to strengthen communities and reward enterprises doing the greatest good."

Jan 18

The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs (in 2 Graphs)

These post-recession years have not been gentle on young college grads, and by now, you've heard plenty of stories about students matriculating from campus to life as a barista. But how many B.A.'s