Montreal’s Streets Continue to be Focused on People
Walking the streets of Montreal already provides a pleasant experience – and it’s about to get better. The city has dedicated an additional $1.7 million to what it already spends…
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You can Learn to be Luckier in Life
Are you lucky? Do you want to be? Because you can increase your luck skills by practicing – seriously! Christine Carter demystifies how luck works at the Greater Good Science…
Practicing Meditation Changes Your Brain and Sense of Self
Achieving mindfulness through mediation can help you relax and even assist you in achieving a more fulfilling life. Recent fMRI studies have shown that this can be proven by looking…
It’s Fine to not Check Your Email
Stop compulsively checking your email. Frequent checking of one’s inbox will lead to stress for a few reasons so it’s best to schedule your email checking to every couple of…
How Early Video Games Expressed Environmentalism
It can be fun to tune out and just play some games, and that’s a good thing. There are games that are obviously educational like Math Blaster and there are…
The Quick and Powerful Response by the ACLU
Image via Reddit. Over the weekend President Trump enacted what has come to be known as the Muslim Ban. Immediately protestors took to their nearby airports in act of solidarity…
What It’s Like to Use the Internet in Cuba
The internet is a great resource for connecting people to people and connecting people to services and new ideas. Cuba, like other developing nations, has had a hard time connecting…
Over 100 Golf Courses Closing in China
I make games for a living and I love seeing people have fun – but I really don’t like golf courses. Golf takes up a lot of land and consumes…
How to be an Activist
Many people are troubled with the state of global politics and maybe you’re one of those bothered people. What are you going to do about it? Over at Grist they…
6 Hour Workdays Work Fine
The eight hour work week that has become standard in the developed world is a result of the industrial revolution and the efforts of unions for reasonable working conditions (without…
Teen Substance Abuse Decreases When They Have Fun
Being a teenager is hard with all the chaos that is finding one’s identity and dealing with the incoming stresses of life. In many places around the world, teens react…
Visualizing Bold Climate Action
There’s so much talk about taking action around climate change that it can be hard to remember what real action looks like. Climate action can take on many different forms…
Reusing Renewable Power Pieces
Despite being more efficient and better than other forms of generating electricity renewable power generation does cause waste. The waste isn’t in the form of smog or tailing ponds or…
Use of Coal Power to Shrink Regardless of Politics
Coal producers can’t keep up. Coal used to be the cheapest form of energy, but that was before cheap renewable technology and more efficient gas plants came along. What’s more…
Work for Your Future Self
If you have trouble motivating yourself to start a new project or change something about yourself, change your perspective from now to the future. By thinking about what will benefit…
Busting Urban Planning Myths
There’s a lot of misconceptions about how to make cities a better place to live that need to be cleared up. A popular belief is that adding more lanes for…
A Little Exercise Goes a Long Way
At the start of the year people tend to make resolutions that they don’t hold – like regularly going to the gym. The good news is that you can break…
Trees are Great for Cities
Cleaning the air and keeping areas cool are what trees do best. A new study has looked into how best to use trees from a purely utilitarian standpoint. Essentially they…
Obama and Canada Bans New Coastal Oil and Gas Drilling
Obama is leaving office and he’s clearly worried that the next president will ignore climate change and its effects on humanity. In order to stymie any damage that president Trump…
Spent Grains From Beer Used to Grow Mushrooms
An enterprising student went on a brewery tour and discovered a lot of food waste. Grain is used when making beer in a similar way that tea is steeped, after…