They Haven’t Built A Better Mousetrap

Via Business Insider: Since William Hooker of Abingdon, Ill. invented the spring-loaded mousetrap in 1894, more than 4,400 patents for new mousetraps have been filed in the U.S. But has anyone really improved on the spring trap? A recent protracted and methodical...

They Haven’t Built A Better Mousetrap

Via Business Insider: Since William Hooker of Abingdon, Ill. invented the spring-loaded mousetrap in 1894, more than 4,400 patents for new mousetraps have been filed in the U.S. But has anyone really improved on the spring trap? A recent protracted and methodical...

Confessions Of A New York City Doorman

Via Business Insider: In the half hour we talked to Pablo he greeted at least 20 residents and five workmen coming and going  (in English and Spanish); made at least ten calls upstairs to announce visitors; helped someone who had the wrong address; answered a...

Confessions Of A New York City Doorman

Via Business Insider: In the half hour we talked to Pablo he greeted at least 20 residents and five workmen coming and going  (in English and Spanish); made at least ten calls upstairs to announce visitors; helped someone who had the wrong address; answered a...

GiveDirectly Gives Poor Kenyan Families $1000

Via Business Insider: Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye, Rohit Wanchoo, and Jeremy Shapiro came up with a radically simple plan shaped by their own academic research. They would give poor families in rural Kenya $1,000 over the course of 10 months, and let them do whatever...