WeGrow: A New School To Help 5-Year-Olds Pursue Their Life’s Purpose
"WeWork’s vast network of creatives and entrepreneurs, Neumann hopes, can help WeGrow students cultivate their passions."
Governments Will Soon Be Powerless to Stop You From Manufacturing Anything You Want
"From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world."
American marijuana companies turn to Canadian stock exchange to raise capital
"U.S. marijuana companies are not allowed to list on the Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange due to federal restrictions, leaving a nascent yet booming market to be traded in Canada."
Country Time Lemonade to help pay fines, permit fees for kids’ lemonade stands
"The company is launching 'Legal-Ade,' a team of people who will help lemonade stands deal with permit issues. If a child gets fined for running a lemonade stand, Legal-Ade will reimburse the cost of the fine or permit up to $300."
Making Heart Surgery Accessible to the Poor, by Embracing Mass Production
"Instead of looking to government to fix our health care system, we should be looking to innovators like Dr. Devi Shetty."
U.S. Customs seizes American nurse’s $42,000 earmarked for Nigerian clinic
"More than six months later, Customs and Border Protection still has not given back her money. This, despite the fact that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of Texas did not bring a civil asset forfeiture case against her or charge her with any crime."
Open Borders: Trade, Migration, Entrepreneurship, And Prosperity
"Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the 'import' of labor — the in-migration of human beings."
Investors Storm Oregon’s Cannabis Market To Build ‘Starbucks of Weed’
"There's every sign consolidation of the industry will continue, particularly given that the drop in the price of cannabis has threatened the profit margins of dispensaries."
Why So Many Cambodians Own Donut Shops
"The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing."
It’s Crazy Until It’s Not: 3D-Printing Homes For the World’s Poor
"The exciting result is 'the Vulcan,' a 3D Home Printer designed to print a home for less than $4,000 in less than 24 hours."