Dog-sharing is the new hot thing in the sharing economy
The latest trend in the sharing economy is dog-sharing. No, dogs aren’t being passed around for free, but there is a flurry of startups offering dog-walking, dog-sitting, and other dog-related services. These apps give people the opportunity to become pet owners despite the challenges of modern Read More...
Reviving the Mammoth Steppe and the Wooly Mammoth to reverse global warming
In Eastern Siberia, a father and his son are nurturing an extensive grassland known as the Mammoth Steppe back to life, including the Woolly Mammoths that used to roam it. Their quest to bring back an extinct species is undoubtedly controversial, but their reason for doing so isn’t. With the help Read More...
Practicing gratitude to boost your well-being
Gratitude may seem like a practice you do for others, but it actually has enormous benefits for your own well-being. Studies show expressing more gratitude can help boost happiness and reduce the negative effects of depression. Here’s how you can upgrade your gratitude Read More...
Female-friendly Uber alternative Safr lauches with mission to empower women
Positioning itself as a female-friendly alternative to Uber, Safr, a new Boston ride-hailing service that launched last month, faces an uphill climb to take market share from an industry leader. But with Uber’s seemingly unending stream of bad news this year, and a new report revealing that Read More...
Is neuroscience rediscovering the soul?
The idea that neuroscience is rediscovering the soul is, to most scientists and philosophers, nothing short of outrageous. Of course it is not. But the widespread, adverse, knee-jerk attitude presupposes the old-fashioned definition of the soul — the ethereal, immaterial entity that somehow Read More...
Research: Deep sleep may act as fountain of youth in old age
As we grow old, our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness, bathroom trips and other nuisances as we lose our ability to generate the deep, restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth. But that does not mean the elderly need less sleep, according to Read More...
Guernica: The town that became a symbol for peace
Past the handgun factory that has become an arts centre, behind the rebuilt station with its shiny statue of the first Basque president, there’s a long blackened tunnel with a padlocked door. Begoña unlocks it and we step inside. It smells of weeds. Eighty years ago this month it would Read More...
Are electric airplanes finally ready to take off?
Fasten your seat belts, ensure tables are stowed—and check the batteries for charge. At least, that’s what the preflight checklist might be for a pair of plucky new startups promising to build passenger electric Read More...
The end of coal: EU energy companies pledge no new plants from 2020
Europe’s energy utilities have rung a death knell for coal, with a historic pledge that no new coal-fired plants will be built in the EU after 2020. The surprise announcement was made at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday, 442 years after the continent’s first pit was sunk by Read More...
If Dubai can become a green city, all cities can
Dubai is easily one of the most unsustainable cities in the world. You can ski (indoors) in the desert city! And yet a sustainable city is precisely what Dubai’s government says it aims to create. Here’s a feature of National Geographic describing how Dubai is setting an example for any major Read More...