an American canal at Nicaragua was regarded as a certain thing, irrespective of the fact that one American attempt in Nicaragua—by the Maritime Canal Company, which had been chartered in 1889—had already gone down in defeat. MORE

Doing good and making money is not an easy task, but these B Corps did it successfully. B Lab announced its second Best for the World List today, honoring 67 companies that ranked the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations. MORE

Miraclefeet came to Mike North at Reallocate because it was searching for a product that could treat clubfeet in Nicaragua. The kid in Nicaragua comes in to see the doctor," North told me. The power of cooperation and comedy to make useful products. MORE

He returned to his Central American roots in 1997, when he started Mayorga Coffee, a Rockville, Maryland-based company that imports coffee mainly from small, eco-friendly farms in places such as Honduras and Nicaragua. I began importing cigars from Nicaragua when I was a student at Georgetown. MORE

As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent [article] on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana. MORE

A lot of these people will do bike rides across states or go surfing in Nicaragua, all these crazy things, but if they're lost, everything is new. What do hyper-creatives, emergency room nurses, and CEOs have in common? Dr. Aaron Blackledge has identified a particular neuro-chemical pattern. MORE

But better data would show that one of us just came back from Nicaragua, which is having one of the worst outbreaks of malaria in recent history." Greylock Partners' data czar DJ Patil takes a look into the future of data--and what it means for you. MORE

And it covered everything from the productive, the great railway medias of the 1830’s and 40’s that built the British Railways to silver mines in Nicaragua. Bill Janeway, Founder of Warburg Pincus’ High Tech Investment team and investor founder of such companies as BEA Systems and Veritas Software is also a Cambridge academic who has analysed the economics of stock market bubbles over the years. Are investment bubbles a good or a bad thing? The answer may surprise you. MORE

Russia alone can prove to be a lucrative enough market to conquer and countries like Nicaragua, Peru and India seem to have some brotherly solidarity towards an eastern made touchscreen device. MORE

for the past 54 years, other countries like the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua have stepped up to serve a $13 billion premium cigar market. While Cuba was cut off from the U.S. MORE

michaelanschel @ christine Check out @ NicaGuide a woman owned startup based in MN that does guided eco tours to Nicaragua www.tourstonicaragua.com. I haven't been a heavy user of the Twitter shout-out before, but I had such great response and feedback yesterday that I wanted to share. MORE

Google Maps triggers military dispute between Costa Rica & Nicaragua – [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. MORE