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"Locavesting": Investing In Main Street Instead Of Wall Street

What if you didn't send your money to a faceless investment bank, but instead gave it to a local business? We spoke to author Amy Cortese about local investing, where people keep their capital within 50 miles of where they live. "The crazy thing is it’s easier for most people to invest in a company halfway across the world than in their own backyard," says Amy Cortese, author of the recently published Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It.

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Innovating on the Edge

What's new with reverse innovation? Small businesses that master local, niche, or extreme markets are becoming the go-to for ideas that can be applied on a global scale.

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Project Noah

Help researchers build the go-to platform for documenting all the world's organisms [More]

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Don’t call us, we’ll call you

Castrodale: Star hasn't won a tournament in nearly two years, so why should the world continue to care so much about his faltering career?

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Home: Outer Limits

When Dedon debuted its 2011 outdoor furniture collections earlier this year, the German company went global: Transporting its handmade designs to some of the world’s most exotic destinations, Dedon created lavish alfresco living spaces in unlikely locations—from a lakefront setting surrounded by elephants in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to the wintry ...

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Bloomberg, Saudi Prince To Launch News Channel

Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could both shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch. Al Jazeera might have some new competition. Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch

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How Eating Frog Legs Is Causing Frog Extinctions

Frog legs are still an amazingly popular food item around the world, including here in the U.S. According to a new report, an average of 2,280 metric tons of frog legs are imported into this country each year--that's the equivalent of somewhere between 450 million and 1.1 billion frogs.

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Preschool Kids Spontaneously Employ the Scientific Method

By Chloe McIvor of Nature magazine Preschool children spontaneously invent experiments in their play, according to research published this month in Cognition. The findings suggest that basic scientific principles help very young brains to learn about the world. Psychologists have been drawing a comparison between cognitive development and science for years -- an idea referred to as 'the child as scientist'

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Video: Popular drugs in line to go generic

In the next 14 months, seven of the world's 20 best-selling drugs will be available in generic form. Jeff Glor reports on the expiration of drug patents and what it means for consumers

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Video: Popular drugs go generic

In the next 14 months, 7 of the world's 20 best selling drugs will be available in generic form, dramatically slashing the cost for patients but also decimating sales for the drug companies that created them. Ben Tracy reports

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Hint of Higgs Particle Seen in Large Hadron Collider, But Little More

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine GRENOBLE, FRANCE When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional dimensions and perhaps even a small black hole or two. [More]

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Physicists closing in on ‘God particle’ (Update)

Experiments at the world's biggest atom smasher have yielded tantalising hints that a long-sought sub-atomic particle truly exists, with final proof likely by late 2012, physicists said Monday.

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