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"How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and a...

There is currently a huge bun-fight going on at the WHO over who has the "rights" to "own" key genomic information about...

A number of sites have noted this interesting study of a particular kind of con-trick, known as "The pigeon drop". What really c...

In the present climate, with growing distrust and disgust at the antics of greedy, global mega-corporations, I don't think this kind of ...

Haven't banks learned * anything *? In 2006, the Bank of Communications Beijing Branch began offering loans to Chinese SMEs secured agai...

Although apparently a small matter, I think this story about restaurants refusing to provide tap water for free could have quite wide ramif...

I'm a big fan of Amazon - actually, make that a big addict. But when it starts throwing its weight around, I can't help thinking it...

The smiley is a defining icon of the online generation. But as this article points out, it is also likely to go down as yet another enclos...

I'm all in favour of openness, but maybe this is taking things a little too far.... More seriously, it does show the tension between op...