After being purchased from the clearance section of the Home Depot gardening section by a 20-year-old student named Melissa, Clarence, a small basil plant, was aware of the precarious situation he found himself. “Listen, if Melissa hadn’t rescued me, I’d probably be dead at the bottom of a compost bin months ago”, says Clarence. “That said, I know life in
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Steve Jobs. Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. These are just a few of the wildly successful tech luminaries who dropped out of college to pursue their dreams and build a tech empire. Now you can too, thanks to Lowbar College. Located in Silicon Valley, Lowbar offers an unheard of educational proposition; enroll and drop out. The first educational institute of its
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On the 151st anniversary of President Lincoln’s assassination, the historic Lincoln Memorial has announced plans to add a bar and grill to the national monument, making it the first presidential memorial ever to do so. The bar, which will be arranged by a 40 person congressional committee with a budget of approximately $1 billion dollars, will be named “Abe and
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Despite only making up about 4.5% of the world’s population, the US is one of the largest consumers of clean water in the world, consuming almost 4 trillion gallons of clean water per month. Making matters worse, an estimated 95% of water used in the average household gets wasted. But where does all that water go? Leaky faucets? Burst pipes?
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The Common Friend 