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— By Simon Webster Jasmin Herro’s first taste of entrepreneurial success came in the form of mandarins. Aged nine, and trying to raise cash to visit the Cairns Show, she set up a stand outside her father’s north Queensland service station and sold fruit from the family’s backyard trees. She made $27. “I went on rides, bought a dozen showbags, vomited on fairy floss… I was king!” she says. “I thought, what else can I sell?” Almost four decades later, in 2012, $27 was the number again, as Herro experienced another groundbreaking moment. It was $27.50, to be precise: the...

From serving as a home entertainment hub to being a valuable business tool, portable pocket-sized projectors have really come into their own the last few years. But while manufacturers have packed more power and more capability into these mini marvels, they’re still usually too delicate or too dangerous for a child to use safely. The Cinemood 360 is not only the first portable projector that supports playing 360-degree videos, but it also distinguishes itself for its kid-friendly engineering, created for kids as young as 2 or 3 to use and enjoy safely. For the adults, the unit is light, portable,...

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If you like political theory, you'll want to sink your teeth into this piece by editor emeritus of Dissent, Michael Walzer, who tries to set the record straight in a thick read that's good for the college classroom.  The words, “liberal" and "liberalism," are concepts that we use casually often while assuming that others know what we mean when we use them.Walzer's article demands that we step back to consider, in particular, illuminates in detail the complexity of the concepts, “liberal" and "liberalism," while conceptually sorting out its various strands. I like his view that the word, "liberal," is best understood as a "pluralizing adjective," a...