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Redesigning court summons can help keep people out of jail
It’s easy to dismiss people who miss their court date as negligent, but traditional court summons are fairly inscrutable, with the court date and time information buried near the bottom. There’s also no obvious explanation of what happens if you fail to appear, which, by the way, is a warrant Read More...
10 reasons why mindfulness should be a priority in your relationship
Life is full of routine and with routine comes complacency and mindlessness—even when it comes to your partner. Choose to be mindful of your partner, however, and you will experience these 10 Read More...
How Whole Foods uses saltwater to cut costs and boost resilience
Whole Foods Market has been using thermal batteries at five stores in California and Hawaii to reduce its electricity bills and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Now, the grocer is taking a closer look at how these alternative battery storage systems can cut costs and keep food cool in the event of a Read More...
Top colleges are teaching students to prioritize happiness-not money and power
It takes a lot of hard work to get into places like Yale and Stanford. But once students make it to the Ivy League, many find that while they’re ready to tackle Shakespeare and comparative political systems, they’re lost when it comes to building emotionally rich, and balanced lives. To that Read More...
Take a look inside Amazon's new rainforest office space
If you’re feeling mentally stuck, a good way to get your brain innovating again is to step away from your desk, take a walk and get some fresh air and return refreshed and ready to attack whatever project is at hand. A central aesthetic component of Amazon’s brand new headquarters in Seattle Read More...
Could farming rhinos save them from extinction?
Rhino horn is worth more than gold or heroin by weight, so poachers often kill the animals and cut off their horns. It's illegal to sell the horn on the international market, but John Hume, a rhino farmer in South Africa, argues that if it were legal, poachers would breed rhinos rather than kill Read More...
This Southern California city is planting thousands of trees to cool itself down
Temperatures have soared in the Southern California city of Long Beach in recent years, and the average temperatures are expected to keep increasing. This heating trend is partially due to global warming, and partially due to the city’s urban heat islands, which tend to have a lot of cement and Read More...
A more humane economy would help revive rural America
These days, it’s increasingly difficult to succeed in rural America and for more than one reason. Historically rural jobs, like coal mining and manufacturing, are dying out as more of them are automated, outsourced or deemed obsolete. But one reason for America’s struggling rural economy Read More...
How AI is helping solve Asia’s traffic troubles
Traffic in cities across Asia has become dreadful. To solve this congestion of cars, China’s largest online retailer Alibaba is deploying its cloud-computing power to reshape city traffic. The artificial intelligences makes live traffic predictions, optimizes traffic flow, and detects traffic Read More...
Chile just created 10 million acres of protected parkland
Two American philanthropists have completed the world’s largest donation of privately held land when they handed over more than one million acres to the Chilean government. The Chilean government added nine million acres of their own to create five new and three expanded national parks. In total, Read More...