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Want to live longer? Have yourself a chat with a stranger
You don’t need to do crossword puzzles and sudoku to keep your mind feeling young. Research finds that getting out and about and talking to strangers is actually a stronger way of engaging the brain as it requires much focus and energy to do so. For other effective ways of improving your chances Read More...
A new wave of blue-collar startups are reviving the American Midwest
After years in the doldrums, the fortunes of Midwest cities like Columbus, Indianapolis, and Kansas City are on the rise. That’s because startups are starting to cluster in these old industrial strongholds. But unlike their coastal cousins, the startups of the Midwest are focusing on jobs that Read More...
These 9 documentaries will completely change the way you think about health
A lot of mainstream medicine is outdated and relies too heavily on treating symptoms rather than preventing illness. If we truly want to be healthy we have to know how to prevent illness before it occurs.The following is a list of the top 9 documentaries that are focused on health and the many Read More...
Forget about recycling, we need to start re-using
With China banning all types of recyclable containers, it’s time for us to take a new path in the use of containers. In fact the word recycle could be replaced with the word reuse and to take our possible change of thinking further, let’s add the word zero to waste so we always refer to zero Read More...
Whenever the market crashes, Warren Buffett turns to a 19th-century poem
When the market throws him for a loop, Warren Buffett looks to poetry. No, really. The chairman and CEO of multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway today explained in his annual letter (pdf) to shareholders that some of the best market advice can be found in the words of 19th-century British Read More...
'Blended burger' allows a simple shift to more sustainable eating
Burgers are possibly the most ubiquitous meal on Americans' dinner plates, but they're also among the most resource-intensive: Beef accounts for nearly half of the land use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the food Americans Read More...
The Bandung tech startup aiming to use mushrooms to help grow houses
A simple farm in the misty hills above the Indonesian city of Bandung is not the place one might expect to find a budding technology startup. This is farming land and it always has been. But the team at Mycotech is growing much more than vegetables. Their dream is to grow Read More...
How blockchain and batteries flipped a power-line developer to microgrids
Ed Krapels is a curious sort of electrical-transmission developer who thinks we don't need to develop more transmission. "We need less transmission in the future, but we need better-located and better-sited transmission,” the founder and CEO of Boston-based Anbaric Development Partners told me Read More...
Scientists are only now "discovering" what the Indigenous have known for years
Traditional or Indigenous knowledge on anything from the medicinal properties of plants to the migration patterns of caribou is valued by scientists when they support or supplement other scientific evience. But when the situation is reversed—when Traditional knowledge is seen to challenge Read More...
World's first all-hours solar fuel reactor could soon lead us to clean hydrogen
In a traditional solar fuel reactor, the process depends upon the solar thermal heat provided by the sun. When the sun disappears at night, so too does its energy. That’s why scientists have developed the world’s first solar fuel reactor that is able to function at night by relying on solar and Read More...