For a long time, I’ve been worried about something I had the power to fix. It is something important — not life & death, but in the next tier. The amazing thing is, I could have made the worry go away any time I wanted.
I’ve ...READ»
In a most extraordinary story, London's Guardian newspaper is reporting that genomics pioneer Craig Venter claims to have created "the first new artificial life form on Earth," as the Guardian puts it.
The Guardian can reveal that a ...READ»
A Friday sampler of innovation and business news from beyond the normal biznews channels.
MIT Wants to Modernize Drug Making
Medicine these days is made much the way Merlin would have — with ingredients and steps batched in a ...READ»
A year ago, I wrote a story about the dramatic improvements that finally made compact fluorescent light bulbs so appealing for home use. The story was keyed to Wal-Mart’s effort to single-handedly double the compact fluorescent ...READ»
A Friday sampler of business news and innovation from beyond the normal biznews channels.
Medical care that comes to you — 7 days a week
A veteran Austin technology entrepreneur has started a service that sends a doctor or ...READ»
If you’re in the gym this weekend, toning up on a weight machine, push a little harder and smile in tribute to the cantankerous fellow who made it possible: Arthur Jones.
It is the rare character who lives with the gusto, the ...READ»
Will you die at work today? Probably not.
For the 120,000 men and women who go down into America’s coal mines every day, well, they just might die. In the last 10 years, 298 coal miners have died in U.S. mines. Forty-seven died ...READ»
Next Wednesday, if everything goes according to plan, NASA will launch a teacher into space. Not just any teacher: the woman who was the backup for Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher headed for space, who was killed in the ...READ»
The No. 1 bottled water in the country, Pepsico’s Aquafina, is re-purified municipal drinking water. Yep: Pepsi bottlers around the country tap into the local tap water supply, put the water through an intensive purification ...READ»
In the tiny town of Marks, Mississippi, they filled the potholes on Cotton Street just before presidential candidate John Edwards showed up this week to talk about poverty in one of the poorest communities in America. That detail was ...READ»
Just reading the headlines online this week about Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, you’d think he had been caught committing a felony, perhaps something particularly debauched.
• The Motley Fool: “Rotten Behavior At Whole ...READ»
One of the things the bottled-water companies do quite well is make appealing bottles, in terms of shape and usability. Fiji Water’s square bottle sits easily in your hand. Poland Spring sells a new flip-top bottle with a tucked ...READ»
In the week since my story about the business of bottled water was posted, I’ve gotten dozens of emails, and more than 250 blogs and websites have posted links and comments about the story.
In all that response, the most amusing ...READ»
A reader of “Message in a Bottle,” my story about bottled water from the new issue of Fast Company, asked a question about the sales and pricing numbers in the story. He didn’t think they added up — if we buy 50 billion ...READ»
It’s hard not to be both amazed and irritated by the career of Atul Gawande. Most of us struggle along in a single profession; Gawande is at the top of three demanding professions at once.
He is best known as a staff writer for ...READ»
A single minute of sunlight striking the earth provides enough energy to meet the needs of everyone on the planet for a year. Which means that a day of sunlight provides 1,440 years of power.
We just don't harvest that power very ...READ»
“If you’re a brand, you’re either right, or you’re gone.”
A story in today’s Los Angeles Times on the growing power and importance of private-label merchandise.
Relaxation, at last, for Harvard students at Christmas
For ...READ»
How many people know how much money you make? Your spouse probably does. Does your significant other? How about your parents? Your children?
More to the point, look to the left and the right in your office space -- do you know, ...READ»
