French Homeless Man Becomes Bestselling Author after Writing Book on Being Homeless
After being homeless for nearly three decades, Jean-Marie Roughol’s life is about to change for the better. The 47-year-old’s memoirs about begging on the streets of Paris has become a national bestseller this holiday season, selling nearly 50,000 copies and earning him cult status. The 176-page book, titled Je tape la manche: Une vie dans la […]
Utah Neighborhood Is Using Decoy Packages to Confuse Thieves This Holiday Season
Residents of the Daybreak community, in South Jordan, Utah, have come up with a brilliant strategy to ward off thieves this Christmas. They’ve taken to placing fake Amazon packages filled with junk on their front porches, in order to keep the real stuff safe. According to realtor Kroger Menzer, Daybreak is a tight-knit community of about […]
Vitality Air – A Startup Selling Canned Canadian Fresh Air
A couple of Canadian entrepreneurs are capitalising on the lack of fresh, clean air in polluted cities by shipping out some of theirs. They’ve come up with a way to can fresh air from the Canadian Rocky Mountains and are now selling it all over the world under the brand ‘Vitality Air’. “Essentially, we’re selling air,” […]