Miscellaneous
Is Kickstarter becoming a research and development tool for big business?
The next time a cool new music player or drone catches the public’s imagination, there’s a good chance it won’t be an Apple or an Amazon product. Instead, it could be the result of thousands of small donations funneled to a tiny company, and built from the ground up through a Read More...
Investors in emerging markets 'more engaged' on sustainability concerns
London is currently hosting an important conference for the entire corporate and investor world that includes ‘re-defining fiduciary duty for the 21st century’ via the Principles For Responsible Investment (PRI).On its last day today,it reveals that retail investors in some emerging Read More...
Bitcoin's Shared Ledger Technology: Money's New Operating System
On July 31, 2014 Adam Ludwin, Devon Gundry and Ryan Smith–no-names in the world of finance–walked into a windowless conference room in a Los Angeles office building near LAX and sat down on black leather executive chairs at a mahogany table that could seat 12. A dual-screen Read More...
Greetings From Bitcoin Island
The Isle of Man is a strange place. Home to four-horned sheep, cats without tails, and perfectly preserved Victorian-era steam locomotives, this rock in the middle of the Irish Sea is perhaps best known for hosting the world’s most dangerous motorcycle race, the Manx TT. Read More...
Has Bitcoin Already Been Co-opted by Wall Street?
"People were telling the libertarians to shut up," says New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper, "but they were the only ones willing to put their money on the line and keep Bitcoin alive." Popper's new book, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Read More...
Is school for everyone? Some say ‘no’
Several years ago, few people who knew Hannah Noblewolf would have thought that she would turn out to be an outgoing, articulate, self-assured young woman who has successfully completed her first year at her top-choice college. For years, she struggled with social anxiety, depression and, as a Read More...
Interest in home schooling surges as California parents look to sidestep vaccine law
With the passage of a new law this summer mandating vaccines for schoolkids in California, home school advocates and organizations say they are seeing surging interest in off-campus education options that would exempt them from the requirement. “The word on the streets is that, yes, people Read More...
More students are crowdfunding college tuition
When the desire to go to college exceeds your ability to pay for it, you need to get creative. For a growing number of students, that means asking others for help through crowdfunding. Educational funding is one of the most popular categories on the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe. So far this Read More...
Melbourne school uses neuroscience to boost grades and improve wellbeing of students
A Melbourne school is using an Australian-first approach based on neuroscience to revolutionise its learning and boost its students' grades. Broadmeadows Primary School in Melbourne's north-west is in the lowest 12th percentile for socio-economic disadvantage. But the school's NAPLAN results are Read More...
Barclays to become first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin
Published: 14:08 EST, 30 August 2015 | Updated: 14:17 EST, 30 August 2015 Barclays will be the first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin later this year, the company has announced. It plans to allow people to make charity donations using the virtual currency by going into partnership Read More...