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· Laura Dang
Twenty-Year-Old Woman Uses Extreme Couponing Skills to Donate $100,000 of Food to Charity
While many smart and savvy shoppers find ways to save money for themselves, one high school student was thinking about how to save money for everyone else. Hannah Steinberg, 20, began watching her favorite reality television show, “Extreme Couponing,” during her junior year in…
· Ryan General
You Can Rent an ‘Elf on a Shelf’ on Craigslist To Creep Out Your Friends For $100/hr
Looking for something creepy to freak out guests at your holiday dinner? This ‘Living Elf” will do just that for $100 per hour. You might want to schedule your request early though, as he’s really getting popular and might miss out on the opportunity. Posted on Boston Craigslist…
· Editorial Staff
This Woman Turns Roadkill into Clothes She Sells For Up To $2,000
If you’re stuck between wanting to wear fur but not wanting to be responsible for an animal’s death, Petite Mort Fur might have the answer. The Boston-based company, founded by Pamela Paquin two years ago, sells fashion made from roadkill, or “accidental fur,” as she calls it,…
· Ryan General
Trader Joe’s Ex-President Launches Grocery Store That Sells Healthy Food at Fast-Food Prices
It looks like your common boutique supermarket, and with its aisles brimming with fresh produce and friendly staff assisting customers, it has nearly everything you would find in your typical suburban food store. But under the Whole Foods facade of carrot crates and egg carton…
· Sarah Lesnar
If You Think This is Just an Ordinary Pencil, You’re About to Have Your Mind Blown
A Danish company wants people to say goodbye to throwing away pencil stubs by using their plantable pencils. Sprout World’s pencils have a biodegradable capsule filled with peat and seeds in place of erasers. Planting the pencil stub produces flowered plants, vegetable plants,…
· Laura Dang
Why A Man Who Sold a $2 Billion Company Now Drives For Uber
Rich people have some rather interesting quirks, as many Redditors will attest to. However, one multi-millionaire has a surprising reason as to why he is picking up passengers as a driver for UberX. Paul English is a co-founder of Kayak, a popular search engine for travel deals,…
· Laura Dang
Seventeen-Year-Old Genius Finally Gets Job at NASA After Getting Rejected For Being Too Young
This teenaged whiz kid might be too young to vote or drink, but he holds two college degrees and works on drone and aircraft surveillance technology for NASA. Moshe Kai Cavalin, 17, graduated from community college at the age of 11 and went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in…
· Editorial Staff
This is Possibly The Most Beautiful Craigslist Missed Connection Ever
Some Craigslist missed connections are funny, while some are just pure creepy. However, the following post on Craigslist Boston a month ago might just take the cake for one of the best missed connections of all time. Read the post below: “I met you in the rain on the last day of…
· Riley Schatzle
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to Open a Private School For Underprivileged Kids
To help educate the overwhelming number of disadvantaged students in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are opening a private school for preschoolers and students from kindergarten through eighth grade. On Thursday, the…
· Laura Dang
Meet the 21-Year-Old Daughter of the Ultra-Millionaire Who Created ‘Seinfeld’
Larry David, the co-creator of hit comedy shows “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has a 21-year-old daughter who has been catching the eye of media outlets for her Rich Kids of Instagram-like posts on the picture-sharing app.
· Laura Dang
App Created by 20-Year-Old College Student Gives Away Free Money
Joshua Javaheri, 20, is making a name for himself in the mobile gaming industry after creating an app that gives away money to users with no strings attached. The app, Lucky Day, has proven to be quite popular with 30,000 downloads and notable mentions by celebrities such as…
· Laura Dang
Apple CEO Offers Internship to Teen Whose Life Was Saved by Apple Watch
Seventeen-year-old Paul Houle is lucky to be alive thanks to his Apple Watch. The high school student from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, knew something was wrong when his Apple Watch said his resting heart beat was 145 beats per minutes.
· Jacob Wagner
A Startup Whose Furniture Takes Only Four Minutes to Assemble is Trying to Destroy IKEA
Furniture that’s both cheaper and easier to assemble than IKEA’s? It’s a dream come true for anyone on a budget looking to stylishly furnish their homes and offices. The team at Greycork built their furniture startup with the goal of providing consumers an alternative to IKEA…
· Editorial Staff
Meet the 28-Year-Old Female Engineer Making Space Exploration Cool Again
Earlier this month, an internet firestorm was set off after Isis Wenger, a 22-year-old San Francisco-based engineer, was criticized online for being too pretty, and thus an unrealistic choice, to portray an engineer in an ad campaign for tech startup OneLogin. The only problem:…
· Laura Dang
Why a Successful Harvard Researcher Left Everything To Live on a Remote Island
Bethany Butzer, 35, left her prestigious job at Harvard University to live in a small cabin near a remote Canadian island accessible only by boat. Butzer earned a PhD in psychology at Western University and landed her dream job at Harvard’s medical school doing research on the…
· Riley Schatzle
Rich Chinese Women Are Now Paying Americans $150,000 to Have Their Babies For Them
Due to restrictive Chinese laws on childbirth, American surrogate mothers are becoming an increasingly popular choice for Chinese citizens who are having problems conceiving. Although there is an underground surrogacy network set up in China, authorities have been strict in…
· Sebastian Dillon
Wall Street Intern Wins $18 Million in Epic Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Hanna Bouveng, a 25-year-old former marketing intern, is now $18 million richer after winning a sexual harassment case against her 43-year-old former boss, Benjamin Wey, the CEO of New York Global Group. Back in 2013, Bouveng, the granddaughter of a Swedish billionaire aluminum…
· Riley Schatzle
Here’s How You Celebrate ‘National Take Your Dog to Work Day’
National bring your single attractive friend to work day has not been established yet, but national bring your dog to work day has been, and it is probably just as good. If your pup is social with other people and likes attention, then this day is yours to celebrate. Bring a…
· Riley Schatzle
Good-Hearted Entrepreneur Feeds 4,279 Homeless With Leftovers From Tech Conference
One of the most needless problems that America faces today is the staggering amount of good and edible food that is wasted when there are so many hungry, homeless and food-insecure people out there.
· Riley Schatzle
Billionaire Sam Adams Founder Explains Why Getting Rich is a Trap
Billionaire brewmaster Jim Koch chooses happiness over wealth. In 1984, Koch founded one of the most widely cherished brewing companies to have ever been established. Although his father, who at the time was also a brewmaster, tried to convince him not to pursue a career in the…