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The Small Inventions That Make a Huge Difference | econlife
October 5, 2025
The Small Inventions That Make a Huge Difference

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August 4, 2025
peanut research
August 4, 2025
How a Better Peanut Was About More Than An M&M

Faced with a taste problem, M&M needed peanut research to develop a new peanut that had a vast array of requisites.

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June 19, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Fast Food AI
June 19, 2024
How Fast Food AI Can Make Us Laugh

While fast food AI can make us laugh through mistaken voice orders, as a part of a bigger innovation process, it also can impress us.

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July 20, 2023
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup and invention
July 20, 2023
The Little Inventions That Had a Big Impact

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June 12, 2023
technology and one click
June 12, 2023
Why We Should Care About “One-Click”

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January 14, 2022
economic news roundup and swab history
January 14, 2022
The Little Cotton Swab That Had a Big Impact

Soon to celebrate its 100th birthday, the cotton swab is a seemingly small innovation that had a massive impact.

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May 21, 2021
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May 21, 2021
Learn With Elaine: Inventing Post-it Notes

An accidental innovation, Post-it Notes had a massive economic impact through the private and social returns that they created.

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May 16, 2021
Post-it Note
May 16, 2021
An Innovation That Stuck

Accidentally inventing the Post-it Note, two scientists and one large corporation demonstrated where an innovation can take us.

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September 25, 2020
Weekly Economic News Roundup and teabag innovation
September 25, 2020
The Trouble That Is Brewing for Tea Drinkers

A small innovation that made a big difference, the teabag has remained pretty much the same for more than a century.

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November 29, 2019
Pentagon Pizza delivery spike
November 29, 2019
The One Way That Apple and Pizza Hut Are Alike

Propelled by Apple and Pizza Hut, new pizza box design could bring us takeout pizza whose taste and temperature weather a journey.

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October 8, 2018
beef prices
October 8, 2018
The New Food Technology That Could Change What We Eat

Whether about cows or chicken nuggets, sometimes seemingly insignificant new food technology can have an unexpectedly massive impact.

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March 14, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and soggy French fries
March 14, 2018
McDonald’s Soggy French Fries Problem

Because of their new delivery partnership with UberEats, McDonald's has a soggy French fries problem that they need to solve.

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