Written by Ari CohenIn the mid 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton and Edmund Haley dissected a dolphin, for the sole purpose of entertaining an audience. Both men had the reputation of being at the top of the scientific community, and this experiment took place in...
Written by Ari CohenIn 1968 the United Nations tried to protect farmers' profits by limiting the amount of coffee that countries could buy so that the price would remain high. Then in 1984 the Fair Trade Certification was introduced to artificially raise coffee prices in...
Written by Ari Cohen Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Gold, Wheat… and Coffee? Although strange, all these things have a major thing in common: they’re the world’s most traded commodities. In fact, Coffee is the world’s second most traded commodity, after Crude Oil. It is an essential...
Written by Ari Cohen According to Legend, coffee was first discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia when a goat herder named Kaldi noticed that his goats could not sleep after eating the berries from a certain tree. Kaldi then went to his local monastery, who was...