Miscellaneous
The Plan to Unite Bitcoin With All Other Online Currencies
Bitcoin isn’t the only way of sending digital money across the Internet. There’s also Ripple. And Stellar. And Litecoin. And Ethereum. And so many others. Bitcoin is by far the most popular. But every so often, some developers or an entrepreneur or a company will decide we need Read More...
Organic wine industry matures nicely
The organic wine industry, once a cottage industry run by and targeting a handful of mavericks, is now big business. Organic wine grape production in Australia increased 120 per cent between 2011 and 2014 alone, with those grapes reaching a value of $117m. Three South Australian organic winemakers Read More...
Moby's new vegan restaurant is giving all its profits to animal welfare groups
Moby has a new vegan restaurant called Little Pine in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood and he plans to give all its profits to various animal welfare programs. According Eater, reps for Little Pine say it was all Moby's idea. "Opening little pine was never meant to be a conventional Read More...
Sacré bleu! Restaurants in France now have to give out doggy bags
French restaurateurs have expressed consternation after a new law has made le doggy bag - long considered a dining faux pas in France - a legal requirement. The new law came into force on New Year's Day, and dining establishments serving more than 150 covers a day are now required to provide doggy Read More...
Mike Tyson is launching his own Bitcoin wallet brand
Mike Tyson’s Bitcoin ambitions don’t stop with a branded ATM. Now, the former boxer is launching a Bitcoin wallet in collaboration with Bitcoin Direct, the company behind his ATM. Users will be able to buy and sell Bitcoin from the branded wallet by going through the Gildera exchange Read More...
World's first 'vegan butcher' is set to open this month
Apparently it’s possible to have such a thing as a ‘vegan butcher’, and the first shop of its kind is going to be opening this year. Herbivorous Butcher plans to open in Minneapolis later this month, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, and will sell a range of plant-based Read More...
New law means French supermarkets will donate unused food to those in need
Large French supermarkets will soon donate unused food to charity instead of throwing it in a dumpster, after the country’s parliament voted unanimously to cut down on food waste. As the world’s media gathered in Paris last week to cover climate news, French MPs quietly led the Read More...
How eating insects could help climate change
As the global climate change talks in Paris come to an end, one issue that has been raised - most notably by Arnold Schwarzenegger - is the amount of meat people eat. The body-builder-turned-politician said people should go vegetarian for a couple of days a week to reduce the damage farming does to Read More...
Make science more reliable, win cash prizes
Some scientific prizes reward people for their skills as mentors, or for the quality of their scientific discoveries. But the new Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science, awarded today for the first time, honor a different kind of achievement: keeping science itself honest. Created by the Read More...
The revolutionary technology helping to fight food waste
One of the most profound contradictions of modern America is that more than 45 million Americans don’t have enough to eat, but the country wastes an estimated 40 percent of its food. The forces fueling this paradox are complex: Grocery stores think they’ll assume legal liability in Read More...