The Case of the Disappearing Bee

Can you imagine breakfast without coffee or life without chocolate? No apples or pears, citrus, watermelon, tomatoes or berries? No grapes for the table or your wine? You may have to because nature’s pollinators are under significant threat of extinction. When most of us think of bees, we think of the honey bee shown above. But the […]

The Road to Hell is Paved, not with Good Intentions, but with Coffee Pods

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. That’s exactly what John Sylvan, inventor of the K-cup of the coffee-in-a-pod system and co-founder of Keurig, did. Or so he thought. He designed the single-serve coffee pod. It makes coffee preparation convenient and fast, with no waste. His invention proved to […]