As two enormous, golden doors part, sunlight pours into an atrium filled with babies and puppies. Everyone is smiling. The air smells of freshly mown mint. Ripe avocados rain from the sky. (Somehow, they always miss the babies.) This is Harvard University’s new Center for Health … [Read more...] about Harvard just launched a center for happiness
Archives for April 2017
Reinventing capitalism with this new book on a clean money revolution
These times call for courageous new thinking. Money is perhaps our biggest blind spot. We look at it very myopically. We ignore noticing what it is doing on behalf of us. We let it do things we would never see ourselves doing. We must find new eyes to examine our personal … [Read more...] about Reinventing capitalism with this new book on a clean money revolution
Engaging in these 8 mindfulness practices decreased HIV patients’ viral loads
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in East Asia for thousands of years. In the 1960s and 70s, interest in it brought this Zen staple to the US and Europe. It was common within the counterculture movement and continued over the decades among “crunchy granola” … [Read more...] about Engaging in these 8 mindfulness practices decreased HIV patients’ viral loads
This advance brings us a lot closer to a “hydrogen economy”
Hydrogen is currently used to upgrade crude oil and synthesize ammonia, a critical building block of the fertilizers applied in modern agriculture. It also could be valuable as a feedstock for generating green electricity and as an ingredient in environmentally friendly fuel … [Read more...] about This advance brings us a lot closer to a “hydrogen economy”
London to spend £18m on preparing the city for new electric black cabs
Transport for London is spending £18m on upgrading the capital’s power grids to charge the first generation of battery-powered black cabs. From 1 January 2018, all new black cabs will have to be battery-powered electric models by law as part of TfL’s effort to … [Read more...] about London to spend £18m on preparing the city for new electric black cabs