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Storytelling is the most powerful tool you have
More often than not, the typical workplace presentation fails to capture the imagination. Even if the idea is a good one, getting people to go from nodding their heads to creating real change is a rarity. That’s because such presentations deliver a chronological series of events that do nothing Read More...
Why forests are the best 'technology' to stop climate change
The warning from the world's top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a due and dire recognition of the great task in front of Read More...
Uber is going to triple its Uber Eats staff across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
The company has said it plans to add an additional 600 Uber Eats staff across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in an attempt to better take on rival food delivery services such as Just Eat and Deliveroo, reports Bloomberg. A tripling of its staff would mean that Uber will employ 900 people in Read More...
Agriculture destroyed monarch butterfly habitats–now it’s trying to save them
Over the past couple of decades, monarch butterflies, one of the most recognizable (and important) visitors to gardens across North America, have been declining in number–as much as 95 percent of the population has disappeared since the 1980s. The reasons are numerous: Mexico, where the Read More...
Nikola Motor unveils a new hydrogen semi-truck designed for Europe
Nikola Motor has started taking reservations for Tre, the startup’s first hydrogen-electric truck built for the European market. Nikola Motor, which less than a year ago announced plans to build a $1 billion hydrogen-electric semi truck factory in a suburb of Phoenix, said it’s in the Read More...
How the humble lamp-post could help power our cities
As more than two-thirds of us will be living in cities by 2050, scientists and tech firms are looking at new ways to harness renewable energy within the built environment. But at what cost? One day, your office windows will be harvesting energy from the sun, while the lamp-post down in the street Read More...
Archaeologists are one step closer to uncovering how the pyramids were built
The question of how the great pyramids were built is one of the greatest mysteries of time. Now archaeologists are one step closer to solving the puzzle after making a chance discovery in an ancient Egyptian quarry. Have a look here to see what they found, and how it might explain how those huge Read More...
A startup in New Delhi wants to build a smog-eating tower in the city center
New Delhi is choking from smog as pollution levels reach new hazardous heights. That’s why a startup wants to build a 40-feet tall purifier in the middle of the capital that uses 48 fans and nine stages of filtration to pump out 1.3 million cubic meters of fresh air per hour—enough to provide Read More...
Swedish scientists may have found the answer to solar energy storage
Scientists have developed a specialized fluid that can help the solar industry overcome the issue of energy storage. The fluid, which has been called a solar thermal fuel, can store energy from the sun for well over a decade by trapping the solar heat between its chemical bonds. When the energy is Read More...
The nationalist sentiment didn’t exist in the Middle Ages
Nowadays borders are a prevalent subject on the political agenda that’s kept alive by people who feel the need to belong within a certain defined area, secluded from external factors. But this wasn’t always the case. In the Middle Ages, borders didn’t exist and people like merchants, pilgrims Read More...