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Managing lunch costs to save for trip to Rome
The big idea: How can executives (or any of us, for that matter) use what we know about inventory management to make better choices about personal consumption — and improve our lives by working toward new goals with the money … Continue reading
Buffett charity lunch auctioned for $3.46 mln
June 9 (Reuters) – A typical lunch at a high-end Manhattan steakhouse for nine people might run $ 1,000 or so, but when Warren Buffett is the guest of honor the price can rise to $ 3.46 million.
Lunch break: Solar eclipse, chromosphere edition
A look at Sunday’s solar eclipse as seen through a telescope that “has a very narrow bandpass allowing you to see the chromosphere and not the much brighter photosphere below it.” That’s technical speak for: “Here’s a really cool solar … Continue reading
Lunch break: Flashmob visits young boy’s DIY arcade
Caine Monroy, age 9, spent months building an elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store. A flashmob decided to pay his arcade in east L.A. a surprise visit: (h/t BoingBoing) Read full article >>
Lunch break: Jim Yong Kim, a World Bank nominee who can rap
Before he was President Obama’s choice to head the World Bank, Dartmouth University president Jim Yong Kim showed off his rap skills at “Dartmouth Idol 2011.” He shows up about two minutes into this clip with a pretty inspired version … Continue reading
Lunch break: Keyboard Corgi
An update on the Internet classic for our age: Bonus corgis here. (h/t Oh have you seen this) Read full article >>
Obama, Republican leaders call election truce to have lunch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders briefly put aside their election-year attacks on each other on Wednesday for a rare working lunch that the White House billed as an effort to find common ground on strengthening … Continue reading
Lunch break: Explaining Leap Day
A handy video lays out why Feb. 29 comes around every four years, for those still wondering: Read full article >>
Lunch Break: Tracking your trash
MIT’s Trash Track project is tagging more than 3,000 items of waste and watches where they go after disposal. Here, for instance, a cell phone and ink cartridge discarded in Seattle make stops in Florida and Mexico: Read full article … Continue reading
Stern Advice: Free lunch 2.0
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It’s a cherished and long-held belief in the personal finance world that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The catechism goes like this: if a service is “free” that just…