Neuroscientists explain why control freaks are ineffective leaders
The command-and-control approach is out of vogue, and, as it turns out, also detrimental to human nature. Whether you’re an IT manager locking down access and permissions to IT-business collaboration tools, or a micromanager who forces a process on her employees to get work done, you may be Read More...
'I Came By Boat' campaign wants you to look at refugees differently
Advertising is usually created with the intention to sell you products, but a campaign called "I Came By Boat" wants to sell you a change of mind instead. The topic of refugees seeking asylum by boat in Australia is a topic hotly debated nationwide, and one that sees the country receive attention Read More...
How mobile tech is improving global disaster relief
When war or natural disaster causes havoc around the world and millions of people are displaced or rendered homeless, communications and power infrastructures are often damaged or non-existent. Yet people are desperate to let their loved ones know they're safe and to find out what's going on. "The Read More...
The 7 best food items to decrease your risk of heart disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and of all the deaths that occur each year, more than 50% of them could have been prevented. We all know to avoid smoking, but the other four main causes—obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes—can each be eliminated Read More...
African countries pledge to restore the continent's natural forests
A staggering 15% of global carbon emissions results from the loss of tropical forests. That's why it's such good news to hear that more than a dozen African governments pledged at the United Nations climate talks to restore the continent's natural forests, up to 100 million hectares of Read More...
No more drilling at the dentist, how does that sound?
A new study by Australian researchers challenges current dentistry practices, up to the point where they say drilling is old-fashioned. Instead, they say, tooth decay happens so slowly that it can be stopped and reversed before a filling is necessary. According to the researchers, it takes an Read More...
Newly discovered genes might be the key to longer lifespan
It's been quite the obsession of humankind. Throughout history we've been searching high and low for the key to stopping aging processes. Will we ever find the key to eternal youth? It's a grand concept, almost impossible to grasp. But for scientists from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Jena Read More...
A five-step process to avoid overthinking
You’re supposed to think long and hard about the decisions you make, but we often tend to overthink, making us doubt our original ideas and instinct. Decision-making doesn’t purely rely on the information at hand, or on gut-feeling. Rather it takes the right mix of information and intuition to Read More...
The revolutionary technology helping to fight food waste
One of the most profound contradictions of modern America is that more than 45 million Americans don’t have enough to eat, but the country wastes an estimated 40 percent of its food. The forces fueling this paradox are complex: Grocery stores think they’ll assume legal liability in Read More...
"Water-in-salt" battery bodes well for greener, safer grid storage
Scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Army Research Laboratory have used high concentrations of salt in water to create safe, green batteries that could find use in anything from large-scale grid storage to spaceships and pacemakers. Many of today's batteries are designed so that, on Read More...