• A bikini that can charge your iPod! iDrink swimwear.
• The carbon footprint of a burger: “At 2.85-3.1 kg of CO2 (equiv) per burger, then, that’s 428-465 kg of greenhouse gas per year for an average American’s burger consumption.” That’s not including the bun, produce, condiments, napkins, or wrappers.



• Smart kids’re more likely to be vegetarians. “The connection between high IQ and vegetarianism continued to be statistically significant after controlling for social class and better education. The researchers also suggest that this higher chance of vegetarianism may help explain why people with higher IQs tend to have better cardiac health.”
• What do Boston Coffee Exchange, Reality Coffee, and Deaf Dog Coffee have in common? They’ve all lost to Starbucks. How? Starbucks deliberately oversaturates areas to force indies out, offers 2-3 times the going lease rate to landowners to drive out the indie shops already in that spot, etc. etc.

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