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The 3,000 residents of the western Indian town of Shani Shinganapur follow a Hindu faith that prohibits doors on their homes, as they believe their ruling diety, Lord Shani, protects them and would strike down any thieves. Now UCO Bank has opened the first commercial branch in Shani Shinganapur, and […]

University of Colorado-Boulder student Nic Ramos, in protest for rising tuition costs, paid his entire spring semester tuition of $14,309.51 in dollar bills, dragging a 33-pound duffel bag stuffed with the cash into the bursar’s office Friday. More on the stunt from the NY Times, Gawker, and this WSJ/Fox News report:

Interesting links for today: World Paper Money Gallery – View banknotes from nearly every country in the world The numeric keypads on London ATMs are as bacteria-contaminated as the seats of public restrooms, Cash machines ‘as dirty as toilets’ (Telegraph – Experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on […]

Last night 60 Minutes presented a rare interview with Vegas legend Billy Walters, who’s made hundreds of millions of dollars as a sports gambler. Walters poured some of that profit into Enron, WorldCom and Tyco stock in the 90s and says he “got swindled” out of it when those stocks […]

How bad does America’s 9.4% unemployment look on a current global scale? Bespoke Investment Group charted it out: They add: the reality is that the US ranks pretty poorly compared to the rest of the world. The Eurozone is at similar levels to the US, but when most of the […]

From 5W Infographics, a breakdown of how the bargain basement carriers do it:

GOOD took recently released census data and created this map to show the link between education level and income – click through for larger version: The color combinations tell the story, as Cliff Kuang of FastCo Design explains: If a county is, say, orange… that’s a combination of yellow and […]

It’s a followup to the Wired article Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street.

Walk down the drinks aisle in an American supermarket and you encounter a broad wall stacked high with hundreds of varieties of colorful liquid bearing dozens of brands. So much to choose from! But this seeming diversity is misleading at the business level. Just three companies – Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and […]

Undergraduate yearly tuition at Yale is now $49,800 and at Berkeley it’s $35,000 (out of state), but you can skip that and the keg parties and audit some of these fine institutions’ most interesting courses online for free. Open Culture editor Dan Colman aggregates links to free online university courses […]

Detroit’s economic decline and urban decay are well documented, but here’s a fresh, alternative window to the city, where inspiring young entrepreneurs see a blank canvas to explore new ideas and business. Palladium Boots produced this video (in three parts below) featuring musicians, new restaurant owners, artists, urban farmers and […]

Here’s a November, 2010 talk at MIT from Charles Ferguson, who directed the outstanding film about Wall Street and the credit crisis Inside Job. There’s a long introduction and ongoing tech difficulties at the start – skip to Ferguson’s actual beginning at the 8:00 mark: A pull quote: What occurred […]