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How to move forward after making a mistake
Making mistakes is a natural part of life. It’s how you respond to those mistakes that will determine how you move forward after a failure. Here are four simple tips you must keep in mind when handling Read More...
The people fighting pollution with plastic-free periods
Talking about periods openly can be difficult, and discussing menstrual waste can be even harder. While the fight against single-use plastics like straws and shopping bags has become a mainstream issue, activists and environmental groups say disposable menstrual products are part of the problem Read More...
Music may help restore cognitive functions in dementia patients
Plato said music "gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything." Two and a half millennia later, a study by researchers at the University of Utah is suggesting that music-based treatments may indeed provide significant help in Read More...
Harvard scientists say doing this can lower your blood pressure
You know that fight-or-flight feeling: tense muscles, pounding heart, rapid breathing and sky-high blood pressure. We're a nation of stressed-out workers tackling too many tasks, and an endless supply of office scenarios can trigger that Read More...
How to assess new solar technologies
Which is a better deal: an established, off-the-shelf type of solar panel or a cutting-edge type that delivers more power for a given area but costs more? It turns out that’s far from a simple question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best Read More...
Bad habits you must immediately break to improve your life in the next 100 days
Habits define us. And nothing sabotages your creativity and productive life quite like bad habits. In the words of Samuel Johnson “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be Read More...
This liberal arts school prepares students for the jobs of tomorrow
Colleges have always been about getting students prepared for a career, but all too often, the education given at liberal-arts schools isn’t so useful for getting and maintaining a career. A small college in Maine is trying to change that by embedding the idea of “purposeful work”—broadly Read More...
The EU is banning this widely-used bee-killing insecticide
Insecticides are killing bee populations in Europe at an alarming rate. To save our beleaguered pollinators, the European Union has moved to ban the most widely used insecticides for use in fields. Recent research showed these insecticides were not only killing insects rapidly, but were also Read More...
Electric busses can solve some of America’s biggest transportation problems
Personal vehicles are probably the most challenging vehicles to electrify cost-effectively. (Dragging one or two passengers around over long distances in a 2-ton vehicles takes a lot of energy.) Electric busses, on the other hand, are the ideal candidates for electrification as they can transport Read More...
Natural antibiotics can help us beat drug-resistant viruses
Superbugs is the name given to the strains of bacteria that are nowadays resistant or immune to most of the antibiotics. They can fight back the effects of the antibiotics, making their use equal to useless. However, there is a solution: natural antibiotics. Take a look here to see everything you Read More...