Posts by Freethink:
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Why don’t we like to talk about money?
Posted on: 27 Jul 2022
If you think about all your closest friends and family, how many of their salaries do you know? Of these people — the ones who know your secrets, who’ve seen you in your darkest hour — how many of them know how much you earn? Only one-third of American married couples can accurately report what […]
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This portable wind turbine folds up and fits in your backpack
Posted on: 19 Jul 2022
Wind is a big industry. In the U.S., wind is responsible for producing more than 9% of all electricity, and it’s doing so at rates more than 20% cheaper compared to 2010. The natural energy source is big business in physical terms, too: On sprawling wind farms across the nation, turbines tower more than 280 […]
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The startup bridging the digital divide
Posted on: 13 Jul 2022
When it comes to scholastic success, intelligence and industriousness are distributed equally across different groups of schoolchildren in the U.S. But access to technology is not. A 2021 Pew Research Center survey found that about 43% of U.S. households with incomes below $30,000 don’t have access to broadband internet or to a desktop or […]
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How a 6 a.m. sober rave became a global business
Posted on: 07 Jul 2022
You walk past a club at 7 a.m. and hear house music blaring. Odds are you’d think that the people dancing inside had been up all night partying. Not at Daybreaker. Since 2013, the company has been throwing morning dance parties that feature yoga and fitness followed by a couple hours of “dance with […]
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How one deaf entrepreneur turned rejection into a profit
Posted on: 30 Jun 2022
Melody Stein always knew that she wanted to own her own business. As the daughter of San Francisco restaurateurs, building a restaurant from the ground up seemed like a natural choice when she was in her late teenage years. So she applied for work at a local restaurant, aiming to get the kitchen experience […]
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The story of Toybox: Designing a 3D printer so simple, a kid could use it
Posted on: 22 Jun 2022
Toybox aims to bring an almost magically simple experience to kids: With the press of a button, a small machine will print nearly any toy imaginable, all in their own home. But to the founders of the company, building and selling such an easy-to-use 3D printer was anything but simple. The team did start off […]
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Why growing food indoors is the future of farming
Posted on: 17 Jun 2022
When Clayton Mooney and Danen Pool founded the indoor farming company Nebullam in 2017, they knew that growing crops indoors would be the future of farming. At the time, however, indoor farming technology was far from futuristic. “We saw that indoor farming was very antiquated, where you have a bunch of growing equipment that’s all […]
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How this school went from the brink of closure to a 95% graduation rate
Posted on: 01 Mar 2022
Every morning as students enter Paul Robeson High School in Philadelphia, Principal Richard Gordon is there to greet them with a hug, a handshake, or a dap. And when addressing the school over the PA, he refers to the students and faculty as his family. The school’s humanistic approach to education has helped […]
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Living with parents to pay off 105k of debt? This family did it.
Posted on: 22 Feb 2022
Tae and Monica Kim began their marriage with over $100,000 dollars in student debt. It’s an albatross around the necks of many young Americans: how to pay down debt, create savings, afford to start a family — childcare, food, clothing — and own a house? “We couldn’t afford a house,” says Tae, who works as […]
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This family ditched the suburbs for an RV — and have no regrets
Posted on: 15 Feb 2022
Nathan and Marissa Moss were living the American dream in Cookeville, Tennessee — or so they thought. Four-bedroom home? Check. Steady paychecks? Check. Two young kids? Check. But one morning, before Marissa left for a 13-hour shift, she realized that she would miss her young daughter waking up — and would return home after she […]
