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Few things destroy the reputation of a high-class hotel faster than bed bugs. They can drink seven times their own weight in blood in a night. A new trap aims to get rid of the bloodsuckers http://econ.st/xIihdP
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4 shares - Dave Wang, Edward Carbajal, Irina Tcherednichenko, and Kyaw Zaw
Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring, yet government regulation of baby names is common around the world http://econ.st/xbGaDc
LUCIFER, V8, Anal, Christ: these are among the baby names rejected by New Zealand’s department of internal affairs, who recently released a comprehensive list of those disallowed by registrars in the ...
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12 shares - Cameron Brown, Elliott Richards, Gary Myers, Jody C., Lize Hong and 7 more
5 comments - John Mitchell, Arnar Mar Thorsteinsson, John Karl Nuttall, LuciO Morales, and Ryan Batts
John Mitchell - My friend to name their daughter Quim but didn't know what it meant. Pity it never made I would have a good laugh if they did.
A licensed marine biologist faces up to 20 years in prison for filming killer whales eating grey whale blubber http://econ.st/zjcJMl
ONE of the unforgettable experiences to be had in California is to go whale watching in Monterey Bay.
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10 shares - Anne-Marie Clark, Aurelian Muntean, Eran Bair, Ivaylo Popov, Jennifer Vaughn and 5 more
8 comments - Pía Fontecilla, Jeanne Busch, Richard Koffler, Colin Rosen, Brian Denton and 1 more
This week’s KAL's cartoon http://econ.st/yqLBaj
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5 shares - George Palmer, Karim Younes, Kyaw Zaw, Thompson Souza, and k.c Baynes
2 comments - Mark Rondot and George Palmer
As it happens, civet cats are coffee connoisseurs. Their digestive enzymes ferment coffee beans and break down the proteins. These beans, harvested from the faeces, then create a coffee that tastes rich and slightly smoky with hints of chocolate. The beverage is known in Vietnamese as ca phe chon, or civet-cat coffee, and is also commonly produced in Indonesia and the Philippines http://econ.st/zb4BYV
IN A humid outdoor café surrounded by palm trees, Hung Pham Ngoc launches an attack on his coffee, pushing aside a cup of pungent black java for a Coke.
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17 shares - Conchi Mengíbar, David Tribe, Glenn Paradis, Jayme Ercambrack, Jon Pennycook and 12 more
8 comments - pol rosenthal, Hüma Özay, Roudy Romulus, Gary Myers, john edwards and 1 more
pol rosenthal - I received a bag of this as a gift about a year ago. We had a cupping party and everyone agreed that even without adding any sweeteners or creams that civet beans made a fine cup of coffee. Not at all bitter and a bit on the 'creamy' (in flavor) side.
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Maestro Alan Gilbert was so infuriated at a recent performance by a persistent musical tootle from a mobile that he halted his musicians. The audience backed Mr Gilbert, heckling the ring offender, who silenced the phone in embarrassment http://econ.st/yYxfKM
MOST films or performances Babbage has attended in the past decade or so were spoiled by somebody's mobile-phone ringtone. Readers everywhere must have had plenty of similar experiences.
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3 shares - Jayme Ercambrack, Praveen Kallakuri, and Vinko Vrsalovic
Brett McGuire - Still, the incidence of cell phones interrupting concerts must be pretty low. Here in mobile-mad Indonesia I rarely hear a phone go off in the cinema. Surely it is not significant enough a problem to warrant spending money on technology, or (God forbid) frisking people. A well placed reminder to turn off your mobile phone should be enough, no?
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately to the digital age, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? http://econ.st/xX7QSD
LENIN is said to have sneered that a capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him. The quote may be spurious, but it contains a grain of truth.
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28 shares - Andrew Kovacs, Ankit Jain, Cosmin Panaete, Francis Ho, Jordan B and 23 more
5 comments - Mahesh RS, Ravi Mahendrakar, LuciO Morales, Augustin Boustoure, and gayle noble
Mahesh RS - You always have 20/20 vision in hindsight.
Good report though. With minor mods, this should be ideal for biz-school case study, no?
Good report though. With minor mods, this should be ideal for biz-school case study, no?
Are you smart enough to work at Google? William Poundstone poses this question as the title of his latest book http://econ.st/yUcGw2
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? By William Poundstone. Little, Brown; 290 pages; $19.99. Buy from Amazon.com
WHOM to hire is one of the great problems organisation-man faces.
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7 shares - Fabrice Caillette, Gwynne Monahan, Jordan B, Marcus Foster, Matt Godbolt and 2 more
7 comments - John Mitchell, Mike Pinkerton, Elliot Glaysher, Philip Gross, Bob Rosenberg and 1 more
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) feels right at home amid the blazing neon excess of Las Vegas. Consumer electronics' appetite for electricity is expected to double over the next decade. In this year's show, several companies have launched products labelled as having "infinite power". Buy one of these gizmos, the theory goes, and you need never connect it to a wall socket http://econ.st/y8sts7
THE annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) feels right at home amid the blazing neon excess of Las Vegas. For four days each January, thousands of companies gather to showcase their flashiest technolo...
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3 shares - Brett McGuire, Hüma Özay, and Ray Ryan
3 comments - Hüma Özay and Jonathan Neufeld
Hüma Özay - Thank you for your sharing... REEs is a good point about sustainable technology development. Though, nowadays some leading companies are focusing on recycling rare earths and developing alternative materials. Another hand recycling rare earths cost exremely high for sustainability :) I think we can resolve the problems of using rare materials in the upcoming years.
However, sustainability has got not only REEs point but also various points withinside technology. I approach about energy efficiency and environmental issues. Despite our technological achievements, achieving sustainability requires that we understand human beings as ecological entities. The technological development is unthinkable without the human being :)
Expand this comment »However, sustainability has got not only REEs point but also various points withinside technology. I approach about energy efficiency and environmental issues. Despite our technological achievements, achieving sustainability requires that we understand human beings as ecological entities. The technological development is unthinkable without the human being :)
Burgernomics shows Switzerland has the most overvalued currency http://econ.st/yBGoQm
Burgernomics shows Switzerland has the most overvalued currencyTHE ECONOMIST's Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity: in the long run, exchange rates should adjust to equal ...
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34 shares - Brett McGuire, Cassidy Campbell, Dave Rush, Fernando Bergamini, Hüma Özay and 29 more
9 comments - Angélica Garcia-Boiteux, Colin Sullivan, Geir Alstad, DODDFRANKS ABZ, Oraj Bodur and 1 more
Angélica Garcia-Boiteux - In DC the price is upper $3 not including tax. Get a Value Meal for $5 and then they have you at the waistline. You lose, they win.
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