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COOL AND CULTURAL NEWS. Ruthless Reviews - Comfortable and Furious. PAPERMAG. A Brooklyn Clinic For Freelancers Looks To Change The Insurance Industry. In a brick building in Brooklyn, a new style of health care has come to the cities hordes of freelancers.

The Freelancer’s Union opened the nation’s first state-of-the-art primary care practice for freelancers in New York City last week to serve the rapidly growing independent workforce--everyone from entrepreneurs to nannies--who now account for 1 out of 3 U.S. workers. 6 Must-Read eBooks To Spark Creativity « My Life Scoop. Creativity comes in many forms and offers a myriad of solutions to the practical, mundane problems we’re faced with daily.

However, we’re not always equipped with a constant flow of new and exciting ideas. Often times, we don’t even feel like we have the time to engage in artistic activities. Many people are too busy commuting to their jobs or simply don’t know how to tap into their own potential. Luckily, there are a number of literary resources to guide, engage, and ignite our creativity. It’s especially useful, in this digital age, to have a selection of reading materials conveniently in our e-readers. Crowdfunding: a Guide to What Works and Why by Glenn Fleishman. My book, Crowdfunding: A Guide to What Works and Why, will cover planning a project, carrying it through its funding phase, and fulfilling goals by offering a combination of case studies of successful (and unsuccessful) projects and detailed, specific guidance on each phase.

Accompanying the book will be extensive video interviews with people and groups that figured out the knack of making crowdfunding work for them. You can back the project to get access to video and blog entries as I post them and prepare the book; to get a DRM-free ebook, a softcover print edition, or a limited-edition hardcover print edition; and to have me come and present on-site to a group about the best approach to audience-backed projects. The book should be ready in April 2013 in ebook and print formats.Blog posts and video interviews will start appearing in September 2012.I'll post drafts of some chapters by the end of 2012.I'll answer questions any time.

[Diseño Industrial] Un banco que también es maceta. Este banco tiene también la funcionalidad de ser una maceta que permite que las plantas crezcan a través de sus brazos.

Louise Hederström de Suecia es la autora. Typecasting in the typosphere. Sociopathic Superman comics. The Shock Doctrine. The New French Hacker-Artist Underground. Thirty years ago , in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft.

They met up at a small café near the Eiffel Tower to review their plans—again—before heading out into the dark. How Mark Boyle Lives on $0 a Year. Over at credit.com I reviewed the book Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomics Living, by Mark Boyle [I]n 2008 Mark Boyle decided to try living for a year without money.

His self-imposed rules were simple: he would close his bank account and not spend or receive money (including checks and credit cards). He would live off-grid—that meant he would produce his own energy for illumination, heat, food preparation, and communicating with the outside world. Crowd Investing. The Journey to Legalize Crowdfunding Thanks to the support of people like you, all Americans will soon have the right to invest in startups they believe in.

Congress just passed the CROWDFUND Act, allowing you to invest in what could be the next Facebook or own a piece of your local organic food market. Level up//Automata: engineering for a post oil world – Future-Giraffes. Sup..

Lazy Sunday so we will be sharing you a piece of gold we found on the internet (+) Our fascination with sophisticated technology lies at the core of many of our present-day problems. Yet, it need not be. By definition, technical virtuosity doesn’t need to result in yet another electronic gadget or an even faster accelerating sports car. In New York City, Growing Greens As Art and Local Food - Environment. I was sitting on a desk in Jenna Spevack’s studio for about 20 minutes before I realized it was actually a piece of art.

The Secret to Cheaper, Greener Local Beer - Business. June's GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Make Your Own Meals #30DaysofGOOD - GOOD Projects. Things are easier said than done, or so the old adage goes, and we couldn't agree more.

That's why we do The GOOD 30-Day Challenge (#30DaysofGOOD), a monthly attempt to live better. Our challenge for June? Make your own meals. Little Free Library can help put a library on your corner. I happened upon this mini-library in my neighborhood and am so impressed with the movement that Little Free Library has started that I am getting one together for our street.

Cheapskates love libraries (it's mutual) Libraries aren't just the mark of a civilized society -- assembling, curating and disseminating knowledge to all comers! -- they're also a cheapskate's best friend. Anyone who's interested in saving money probably already knows about the free Internet access, daily newspapers, DVD and audiobook borrowing, and book lending (duh). But local libraries go beyond that -- many host community meetings, book readings for kids, author signings, and workshops, as well as providing free or low-cost meeting spaces. My favorite cheapskate pro-tip for libraries is asking reference librarians really hard, chewy questions. White on Noir. The artist Eve Sussman dissects infrastructure as beauty, Soviet-era aesthetics, Occupy Wall Street, Williamsburg lofts, and her latest film that uses an algorithm to distinguish each screening. With a sample selection. Photograph via Flickr by Cea Whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is a dystopian art film using live editing to ensure that no two audiences see the same film.

Rebranding the Food Movement to Broaden Its Appeal - News. As entrepreneurs and food activists attempt to bring fresh produce to more and more urban food deserts, they're setting their crosshairs on one target in particular: the corner store. Packed to the gills with cigarettes, lotto tickets, liquor, and processed foods, the shops do little to nourish the communities where they operate, and in many urban areas—particularly black, Latino, or low-income neighborhoods—these stores are the only places to buy any food at all.