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Business
Straight to the Source: The Boba Guys Visit Taiwan
Boba milk tea is still wildly popular in Taiwan, but the country hasn't produced a recognizable brand for the product.
Business
Ask a Lawyer: What's Fair in Fair Use?
In this series, we seek (nonbinding, fully disclaimed) legal opinions from practicing lawyer Kenny Ching on matters relating to the world of GOOD....
Business
Business Breakdown: Following SOPA Protests, Feds Shut Down Megaupload
The UPS of Piracy, or a new model for content distribution? What's behind the latest crackdown on internet file sharing.
Business
Porn Stars Keep Clothes On for Money
"We work hard to entertain you, and arouse you," says Alektra Blue, in a new (clothed) PSA from porn stars hurt by internet piracy.
Culture
Intellectual Property Donors: Sharing Ideas Like Organs
Evan Roth proposes we all become Intellectual Property Donors. By donating our IPs to the public domain, our creativity will live on after we're gone.
Lifestyle
Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future
How to make your own genetically modified seed—and what might happen if you do.
Education
Who Owns the Ideas Taught in Classrooms?
A website started by recent Harvard grad Andrew Magliozzi threatens to reignite a decades-old debate on college campuses: Who owns the...
Culture
Imitate This: Gwenn Seemel on Art and Theft in the Digital Age
Gwenn Seemel believes real art is inimitable, even when appropriation is just a screen grab away.
Lifestyle
This Exemplary Embodiment: The Year in Food Patents
I think that patent applications—where human ingenuity meets dreams of profit, within the straitjacket of line diagrams and legal prose—might be...
