From wallpaper cleaner to toy box legend
In the early 1950s, a Cincinnati company called Rainbow Crafts made a compound designed to strip coal soot from wallpaper. It was a grayish, pliable putty…
Category: Business
Is AI a magic wand that creates good — or evil?
With AI surging through the business world, the question of how the technology will affect work, and the people who do the work, is unknown. But the…
Impossible to replace: The pool guy
You cannot Zoom into a green pool. You cannot outsource a pump replacement to Mumbai. And you definitely cannot train an algorithm to diagnose why the…
Made in America: Why it’s a 20-year project, not a one-year fix
Every time someone questions whether tariffs are working, the same counterargument surfaces: give it time. There is actually some evidence to support that…
How one question is changing farming
A simple, What if’ question, combined with the convergence of gene-editing technology and AI, has advanced humanity’s most ancient (and first) technology:…
Could a seed revolution bring down your grocery bill?
A California biotech firm called Ohalo has developed a breakthrough plant-breeding technology that could quietly reshape what you pay for food. The…
How PAAS conquered Easter
If you dye eggs every Easter, you’re probably a PAAS customer. So were your parents and their parents, and unless an unlikely challenger with a…
Saks collapses, but luxury retail lives on
Saks Fifth Avenue was once — and to some, perhaps still is — an iconic luxury department store, but the actual Fifth Avenue part of the business may not…
Amazon exits brick-and-mortar — for now
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos said in 2012 that the giant online retailer would open physical stores, if they could find a truly different idea. As of 2026, Amazon…
Free $1,000 Trump accounts lure 1 million
If your child is born between 2025 and 2028, The government will put $1,000 in a retirement account for the child. You have to enroll your child in the…