Avoid the nightmare that is shin splints with these easy stretches
If you’re an avid runner, you’ve probably experienced shin splints at one point or the other.The term "shin splints" refers to lower leg pain below the knee, either on the front part of the leg or on the inside. Shin splints often feel like a casual stabbing pain piercing through your muscles Read More...
To get more people on the bus, we need to look towards Auckland, New Zealand
The city of Auckland in New Zealand has seen their population grow steadily since 2000—at around 2 percent per year. Despite this, transit ridership numbers were stagnating, something that many growing cities have struggled with. Eager to get citizens away from their cars and into public Read More...
Self-care products are hurting the environment. Here are better alternatives
Toilet paper, tampons, cotton swabs, and baby wipes are all personal care staples that, perhaps surprisingly, come with hefty environmental costs. From upstream problems, like logging crucial boreal forests for wood pulp that becomes toilet paper, to post-use issues like the centuries it can take a Read More...
Better battery storage is helping make renewables cheaper than natural gas
Renewables are increasingly becoming more attractive as their costs continue to drop at a stunning pace. Solar and wind plants are now not only significantly cheaper than coal power, as a new report revealed last week, but they're also putting natural gas to shame. New research shows that the cost Read More...
New York to introduce second statewide ban on bags, after California
State action on plastic bags is picking up pace in the US. After California gave plastic bags the boot, New York is set to impose the second statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales, changing a way of life for millions of New Yorkers as lawmakers seek to curb Read More...
Singapore and Australia are drawing news laws to stop spread of fake news
The phenomenon of ‘fake news’ poses a serious threat to democracies all over the world because of its ability to significantly influence political and social trends in our societies. In an attempt to prevent such democratic disruptions, governments in the Asia Pacific region are accelerating Read More...
The way utilities earn money is all wrong. New York City is out to change that
Isn’t it strange that your energy bills keep rising even though the quality of our energy infrastructure is not improving? Yes, it is, especially considering that a staggering $55 billion is invested annually into electric utilities a year. The problem is that money is flowing to old-school Read More...
Unmanned drones are now delivering blood to a hospital in North Carolina
The cargo for the first revenue-generating drone delivery in the United States wasn’t an Amazon package or 7-Eleven Slurpee — it was blood. On Tuesday, UPS launched a new service using drones to transport blood and other medical samples between the various buildings at Read More...
European parliament just voted to ban single-use plastics by 2021
While members of the UN Senate voted to reject the first draft of the Green New Deal this week, members of European Parliament did the world a favor by voting to ban an array of single-use plastics as part of a sweeping law against plastic waste that despoils beaches and pollutes oceans. The ban Read More...
Reclaim your brain from the Internet with a one-day-a-week electronic detox
Imagine it’s the middle of summer and you’re sitting outside with a book you’re trying to read. But there are lots of gnats flying around, landing on your bare arms and neck, buzzing, biting you, and just generally being irritating.They keep interrupting you, diverting your attention, and Read More...