Editor’s note:  Adam Rifkin is co-founder and CEO of PandaWhale , an online network of interesting things and people. He has never owned Facebook or Zynga shares.

It’s not often you get to interview a nuclear engineer and a physician who run a tiny vaporizer factory out of an oversized garage outside of San Francisco so today is your lucky day. Two weeks ago we spent some time with the guys from Themovape , a homegrown, self-funded hardware company that just happens to produce some of the coolest and most effective vaporizers I’ve seen

Just as the tech press was busy talking about the first academic paper on acqui-hires , another acqui-hire deal closed, with online ad company AppNexus acquiring fantasy sports startup Fantuition .

Editor’s note: Paul Pfleiderer is the C.O.G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and co-founder of Quantal International

Keeping things spicy in the bedroom can be tricky. Maybe you exhausted all your tricks early on in the game, or perhaps the sheer exhaustion that comes with balancing kids, a home and your work has taken its toll.

Doc Searls captures something valuable on the occasion of his 40th birthday. No, he’s not 40.

Ecco Pro , a much beloved outliner and personal information management application for Windows was discontinued about 15 years ago.

Editor’s note: Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures where he focuses on early stage mobile and consumer opportunities.

It’s a potential “ doomsday machine .” It’s “ quite literally out of control .” Hedge fund managers and Nobel winners say it should be banned. Others insist it should at least be regulated . Its practitioners are “ parasites .” Mark Cuban says they are “ the ultimate hackers ,” who “scared the hell out of me.” Last week they wiped out $440 million of Knight Capital’s capital.

Editor’s note:  John Greathouse is a general partner at  Rincon Venture Partners  and has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, including Computer Motion, Citrix Online and CallWave which collectively created in excess of $350M in shareholder value.