December 2011
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An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry. →
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When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn’t dream of. He wore one himself—for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat’s blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women’s underwear, occasionally squeezing the...
The greasy fist of Big Butter strikes again. →
Norway ran out of butter this month. There’s none in the stores. People are selling it for inflated prices online. A guy just got caught trying to smuggle 200 pounds across the border from Sweden. People are panicking about the holiday baking season.
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It turns out, the country has prohibitively high tariffs on imported butter — 26 kroner per kilo, or roughly $2 per pound,...
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You may not realize it, but the LGBT community is gaining significant support from professional hockey. Brian Burke, one of the gruffest and most prominent leaders in the hockey world, is a staunch supporter of LGBT rights.
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