This beautifully designed 'dumb phone' can only make calls and send texts
The Brooklyn-based startup Light has set an impossible goal of getting people to put down their smartphones. Light launched in 2014 and a year later debuted its first product, the Light Phone. It could only make calls and tell the time, and the company described it as "quite a smart 'dumb' Read More...
How one US state saved $240 million in health care spending
Investment in primary care results in savings in overall health care spending. This has been empirically proven in the state of Oregon. Current innovation in Oregon provides a real world example that can be studied by policy makers, insurers, health care organizations, and consumers for reform and Read More...
Americans keep using less electricity
Economic growth picked up a little in the U.S. in 2017. But electricity use fell, according to data released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration. It's now been basically flat for more than a Read More...
This 18-mile stretch of Georgia highway is a living laboratory for clean energy
It’s not often that captains of industry have epiphanies about climate change. So it was remarkable when, after reading The Ecology of Commerce in 1994, carpet manufacturer Ray Anderson set out to clean up his petroleum-intensive operation and succeeded in cutting net carbon emissions by more Read More...
Daffodils could be holding the key to killing cancerous tumorous
Researchers have found a compound extracted from daffodils that can serve as a potential cancer killer. As it turns out, the compound can help shut down the “nanomachines” that tumors exploit to grow out of control. Not only was this compound shown to slow cancer’s growth, but it also Read More...
Levi’s is using lasers to make more sustainable jeans
At Levi’s, a brand that talks about trying to be as sustainable and humane to workers as possible, the ugly reality of what it takes to make jean—especially when you are selling $4.6 billion worth of them a year—isn’t something that is brushed under the table. That’s why Levi’s has Read More...
California to start allowing self-driving cars to drive without humans
The California DMV has received approval for a plan to put self-driving cars on the road with no safety driver. That means starting April 2, Google, Ford, Nvidia, and other companies can own and operate driving around the Golden State without anybody inside. The permit to put cars on the road Read More...
Estonia is making the first visa for digital nomads
Visas can be a bane for the fluid-lifestyles of the digital nomad. That’s why the Estonian government is developing a digital nomad visa after noticing that the main barrier to entry workers wanting to work abroad was attaining a proper visa. So how will it work in practice? Though the visa is Read More...
Stop ignoring your emotions and let them out. It’s good for your health
What we learn in our society is not how to work with our emotions, but how to block and avoid them. We do it quite well: Between alcohol use, prescription drug use and screen time, there is a multitude of ways to avoid our feelings. And while this can provide short-term relief, thwarting emotions Read More...
They're here to fix climate change! They’re college Republicans
Consider the life of a current college sophomore, a 20-year-old. She was born in 1998, at the time the warmest year ever measured, when a monster El Niño pattern spawned floods and droughts around the world. Seven years later, as she started first grade, Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans, Read More...