Damn Those Dams
Dams were a popular way (and still are in some places) to manipulate water reserves for people and as a way to generate energy. The problem with this naturally flowing…
Adam Clare
Lessons on Happiness From the Happiest Man Alive
What’s the key to happiness? Not thinking about yourself. Matthieu Ricard is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been deemed the world’s happiest man. Researchers scanned his brain to prove…
What You Study Changes Your Personality
There are stereotypes around who studies what and what those people turn out to be when they’re done their education. One example of this is that MBA students tend to…
Using Art to Critique Government Spying of Citizens
Thanks to the efforts of Edward Snowden we know that illegal, immoral, and downright creepy spying by governments has been going on for years. It turns out that democratic governments…
Teaching ADHD Kids Outside
Students with ADHD have a hard time focusing in a standard classroom which leads to a difficult learning environment. It doesn’t have to be this way though. In Finland outdoor…
Putting CO2 Emissions on a Map
In the fight to curb CO2 emissions and hold back the rate of increasing climate change, researches have mapped out where the emissions are coming from. Unsurprisingly, they have found…
Working Hard Isn’t All There Is
We are often told that the key to success is all in working hard, but that isn’t the case according to new studies. Hard work may get only so far.…
Preparing Suburbia for Disasters
The suburbs are not resilient places when it comes to disasters or having to quickly change to accommodate new realities. At Nautilus they have dedicated their recent issue to the…
GyroGlove Helps Parkinson’s Patients with Hand Tremors
Parkinson’s is a neurological condition that interferes with a person’s ability to control fine muscle movements. This means that hand tremors, or other visible forms of shaking, cannot be finely…
Why We (Still) Need To Change The Suburbs
The suburbs are massive urban design problem because they have a large footprint. The footprint is evident in the energy inefficiencies present in suburban design from sprawl to increased costs.…
In Stockholm You May Get Paid To Ride A Bike
Stockholm was plagued with horrible traffic congestion that limited the ability of anything to really happen in the city. Cities designed for cars tend to have these traffic problems. As…
Taxing Sugary Water Works
Beverages infused with copies amounts of sugar like Pepsi or Coke aren’t good for you health. When an entire nation consumes too much then public health suffers greatly. This has…
Increase Your Happiness by Prioritizing Time Over Money
Modern capitalism as informed us that greed is good and we should only work for money. However, if your goal is to live life then working might not be the…
Pets Can Improve Patient Care
Having pets around is already a pretty fun idea, and now it can also be healthy idea! It’s known that pets can help kids by lowering the chances of them…
International Year of Yum
2016 is the year of the pulse. Pulses are the edible seeds of plants in the legume family and they are delicious! Pulses are super easy to cook with and…
Germany Opens Its First Bike Highway
Germany knows that their autobahns, which are famous for not having a speed limit, can only handle so much traffic. To alleviate pressure put on their highways they have built…
Floating Dam to Capture Waste in the North Sea
The world’s oceans are polluted with massive amounts of waste plastics, so much so that we’ve had to name a grouping of plastic waste because it’s so large. There are…
The Web Makes You Humble, Not Stupid
In the early years of the internet people worried that it would make people stupid and people would sit around not contributing to society. It turns out that the internet…
Meningitis Outbreak in Africa Will Not Happen
Meningitis has killed a lot of people, most of them in Africa in what is referred to as “the meningitis belt”. Every couple of years a meningitis outbreak flares up…
Environmentally Friendly Condoms
Condoms are great for your health but unfortunately aren’t so great for the environment. Condoms are made out of rubber which can be sourced from sketchy places, and now a…