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Somalis are turning to surfing and yoga to help alleviate mental health issues
When we hear about Somalia, our minds tend to think of the hellacious violence that takes places there instead of the pristine beaches that sit along Africa’s longest coastline. According to the World Health Organisation, one in three people in Somalia suffer from some sort of mental illness due Read More...
Getting emotional about failure can improve your next performance
Researchers in a recent study concluded that our thoughts after a failure usually serve to justify the failure, and so aren’t likely to lead to self-improvement. To let ourselves feel, rather than merely think about failure, is to open ourselves up to a painful experience. And therein lies the Read More...
Your weight loss efforts are contagious
Many of us take the steps to shed those extra pounds because we want to live a healthier life or fit into our favorite outfit again. But could our efforts actually bring health benefits to our loved ones, too? Turns out that we may be natural influencers — at least when it comes to the people we Read More...
This non-profit offers tax help to low-income parents in doctors’ waiting rooms
Why not combine access to vital government benefits with a location that many low-income families frequent: the pediatrician’s office? In 2016, around 93% of children in the U.S. visited a pediatrician’s office. Instead of sending families across town to a tax-filing or benefits consultant, Read More...
Technology and transport companies join forces to make cities more livable
Corporate responsibility usually conjures up visions of volunteering, clean energy investments and supply chain transparency – among other worthy programs that companies feel are important to show they are good corporate citizens and are striving to make local communities stronger. But companies Read More...
Are glass milk bottles making a comeback because people want to avoid plastic?
Milkmen and women in floats used to be a common sight around the UK, delivering their glass bottles to communities up and down the country. Then, in the 1990s, supermarkets switched to cheaper plastic bottles and drove many of them out of business. Recent news reports about a resurgence in demand Read More...
Tesla to team up with companies to build charging stations for its semi-truck
Reuters is reporting that Tesla is collaborating with several companies that have placed large orders of its Semi truck to build on-site charging stations to charge the vehicles when they’re rolled out next year. Details of the partnerships haven’t been disclosed, but they reportedly include Read More...
Hyundai’s fuel-cell cars just drove a record 118 miles without a driver
Although Hyundai doesn’t expect to commercialize fully autonomous vehicles until 2030, that’s not stopping the automaker from bringing their self-driving cars on the roads. Just last week, the South Korean carmaker had a fleet of autonomous hydrogen fuel cell cars drive themselves 118 miles Read More...
Researchers are getting superb results from using immunotherapy on cancer
Immunotherapy is the practice of taking people’s own immune cells (T cells) and genetically engineering them to seek out and destroy cancer cells. In a new study, researchers found that immunotherapies can attack cancer cells in the same way it does bacteria and viruses, and the therapy can lead Read More...
Chile is saying goodbye to coal
Chile currently gets between 35 and 40 percent of its electricity from coal. That’s why environmentalists were thrilled when Chile’s government announced it is phasing out coal. Initially, this announcement means ending the development of new coal plants, but the country’s big energy players Read More...