Last week the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation made what was quite a startling announcement: it is donating $287 million to AIDS research, but only to those who leave their work open for sharing and collaboration. The Wall Street Journal reported that:

Frustrated that over two decades of research have failed to produce an AIDS vaccine, [...]

In my voyages abroad, I have often frequented late night food establishments, be it prata shops in Singapore, the Turkish bakeries in Berlin, 24/7 brasseries in Paris, or juice bars in Rio. Round-the-clock food, in my experience, has a universal appeal. I still do think, however, that the good ol’ 24 hour diner concept is [...]

Okay, I think I may have had a slight change of heart on this one. Pronounced Bon-ge doh Hole-e, this group of cute, rich Brazilian white kids might better be characterized as Funk Light (Lie-ch in Portuguese). They can’t play in the favelas, they’re not the “real” (baile) funk, but they do make party music [...]

Apparently CBS is set to infiltrate American homes with advertising for their fall TV lineup. What’s the strategy? Egg-vertising. You got it. Basically they’ll use lasers to etch engravings into 35 million egg shells that consumers will view each time they open their egg carton—all the way until they actually crack that egg open.

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