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2013 Prediction: Crowdfunding Pays Off
Crowdfunding Pays Off Jesse Lenz Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes...
View ArticleThe Haunting Math Of America's War On Drugs [Infographic]
Video By Clarity WayIn 2010, the U.S. spent a whopping $500 per second fighting the War on Drugs, and most people sent to prison for drug-related offenses are there for possession, not selling. The...
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X-Wing Squadron Kickstarter Raises $100K To Strike Back Against Death Star...
X-Wings KickstarterThis Death Star-funding story just became a trilogy. First, the White House shot down a petition to build a Death Star. Then, a team took to Kickstarter to crowdfund a Death Star....
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Interactive Tool Shows You How To Hide Your Millions Offshore
Tax Havens CBCNewsYou probably have a sketchy idea of tax havens--the pillowcases of the super-rich--but might not have an idea of exactly the steps necessary to avoid getting taxed by the government....
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Watch Rich People Earn More Money Than You In Real Time [Infographic]
Sixty Seconds Of Salary Bård Edlund/CNNMoneyCNNMoneyhas published an awesome visualization by artist Bård Edlund showing how much various people make in one minute. On the chart (and quickly moving...
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Cash Raised Through Crowdfunding Tripled In Three Years [Infographic]
Do you remember the moment when crowdfunding became A Thing? Sites like Kickstarter have been around for a few years now, and the amount they've grown in that time is bananas, as this infographic from...
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People Who Beat The Odds Aren't Brilliant, Just Lucky
Money Man 401(K) 2013 via FlickrIf a person made a smart business decision that was counterintuitive, you might look through the bars of his or her gated home as that person backstroked through a pool...
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How The New $100 Bill Will Foil Counterfeiters
The New $100 newmoney.govFor as long as there has been money, there've been people trying to make fake money. In the U.S., the latest effort to stop counterfeiting will arrive October 8, when the next...
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How Stopping Deforestation Would Make Us Richer [Infographic]
Deforestation By The Numbers Jan Willem TulpDeforestation definitely isn't doing nature any favors, but at least there's a financial incentive for it, right? Well, not really, actually, as this...
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Pay For Your Next Meal With Your Face
Facial Recognition Payment System Uniqul's new technology uses military grade algorithms to match your photo to your payment account in the database. UniqulFinland-based company Uniqul is preparing to...
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How Much Will Your Next Hospital Visit Cost? [Infographic]
Chest Pain Pricing Beehive Media It's no secret healthcare procedures often cost way more in the U.S. than they do in other countries. Healthcare costs also vary incredibly across different regions...
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Paying Doctors For A Job Well Done Benefits Patients, New Studies Find
Blood Pressure Check James Gathany, CDC/CDC Connects Some CEOs get paid by how much profit their companies make, and servers in the U.S. get rewarded through customer tips. Should doctors get paid the...
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Is Ouya Getting Scammed On Kickstarter?
Ouya The indie game console Ouya made waves last year for its massively successful Kickstarter campaign, where people ponied up almost $8.6 million (million) in funding. Now, the console is very...
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Anti-Counterfeiting Measures Around The Globe [Infographic]
$100 Bill Courtesy Department of the Treasury The $100 bill is the most widely circulated U.S. denomination abroad and, because it's almost universally accepted, the most counterfeited one outside our...
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Americans Would Pay $4 Billion To Save Monarch Butterflies
Spotty Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man). Used under the GNU Free Documentation LiceThey're certainly the kings of our hearts. Kids learn about them in school. They're the official insect or...
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Washing Dollar Bills With Carbon Dioxide Could Save Billions
Old money Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedia Commons Nothing is better than a crisp, brand new George Washington bill that a vending machine gobbles up. And nothing is more frustrating than trying to...
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A Machine That Sniffs Out American Cash
Dollar Bills iBid, State of Illinois You know that unique smell of money. You're not imagining it, either; it's real, produced from a combination of the paper and ink it's printed with, and it's even...
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Police Departments Are Having Charities Buy Their Surveillance Equipment
NYPD Patrol Car Wikimedia Commons Not everyone is happy that police departments nationwide have branched out to NSA-style surveillance, collecting vast stores of ordinary citizens' digital information...
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Hackett Makes His Own Postapocalyptic Currency [Video]
http://cf.c.ooyala.com/g3ZmszcTqaAXP9Ow7m_lhkaicPXX7dBI/promo237573961 Please enable Javascript to watch this video Money makes the world run—but without a stable government, paper bills will be little...
View ArticlePaying Doctors For A Job Well Done Benefits Patients, New Studies Find
Some CEOs get paid by how much profit their companies make, and servers in the U.S. get rewarded through customer tips. Should doctors get paid the same way? Two new…
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