by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Issues.Innovation, Issues.Progress
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...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Issues.Innovation, Issues.Progress
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...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Call.Capability.SPINE.Skills.Career, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Community, Individual.Elements.Competence.PUSH.Human relationships, Issues.Employment
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...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Call.Capability.SPINE.Skills.Career, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Community, Individual.Elements.Competence.PUSH.Human relationships, Issues.Employment
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...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Competence.Assets.Treasure, Issues.Economic development
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...
