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Medtech giant Medtronic is quite a piece of work. The company started as a Minneapolis repair shop before growing to be one of the world's largest, most profitable - and

For months, I've been following @canadaland's deep dive into We Charity and its bewildering array of both for-profit and charitable subsidiaries and affiliated companies. The picture just keeps getting uglier

Adam, a reader, wrote to me to say, "My wife just bought a medical-treatment device called Exogen. It's not cheap. It purportedly uses ultrasound to promote bone healing.1/ "We're both

In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/

Back in 2016, @thomasfrank_'s "Listen, Liberal!" forcefully explained that "liberals" are not leftists, and that while we on the left might sometimes ally with liberals, we are not on the

When Donald Trump tore up #NAFTA and replaced it with the #USMCA, Canada took it as an occasion to correct errors in its copyright law - defects that undermined free

Shel Silverstein was a hell of a writer. I mean, I thought so even before George RR Martin told me about "Uncle Shelby's ABZs" - a fantastically rude and incredible

A Black Michigan teen with ADHD who was imprisoned for not doing her homework during the lockdown has been ordered released to her mother, after months of incarceration.https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2020/07/31/

You know that thing that companies do when you set up an online account, asking you to name your favorite food and your high-school mascot as a way to recover

In 1972, the Club of Rome published "Limits to Growth," which used pretty straightforward modeling to predict that the world's productive capacity would be exhausted soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth1/ B

If you're into books, you might know that some books are called "trade paperbacks" and others are called "mass market paperbacks." 1/ These distinctions have their origins in the creation

In Olden Days, people who worked for an employer got a pension. The pension would pay $X/month (a percentage of your salary), maybe indexed to inflation. That was a pension