As events in Cyprus, Greece, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere in recent years have taught us, the euros or real or dollars or yuan in your bank account are only as secure as the bank that holds them. In fact, the lesson is deeper than that: The money in your bank...
Do you know how to make your own plastic recycling machines from scratch? Where to download free designs for your 3D printer? Where to find millions of free artworks, books, movies and other cultural resources? Well you do now. Join James for today’s...
We are programmed to look out for danger and respond to threats. It’s instinctual, and well it should be. We live in a dangerous world and our family line wouldn’t have made it this far if there wasn’t an eternal vigilance against potential perils....
As we’ve discussed before, the peer-to-peer economy is emerging in surprising and empowering ways, with sites like RipeNear.me connecting people to local food sources in ways never before possible. But as the eye of Sauron (aka JP Morgan) alights on this new...
It’s February and it’s a leap year, so that can only mean one thing: it’s time for Americans to become fixated with the four-year sideshow distraction known as the presidential sElection. But as the country dissects the New Hampshire primaries I talk...
