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While you’re shopping: ‘giving an experience is better than giving stuff’
When the holiday season comes, what do you give to the person who seems to have everything? How about nothing? Recently, researchers investigated whether it is possible to maintain the satisfaction that we get from gift giving but without actually giving any physical stuff altogether. They Read More...
Why racism has lost its grip in Norway
Norway and its Scandinavian neighbors have been very open to immigration. Muslim women are pursuing in university studies, Afro-Norwegians are taking influential jobs, and one in five Norwegians is foreign-born. Yes, there have been backlashes from opportunist right wing forces. However, the Read More...
Research says this is how to get to 100 years of age
Looking to live to 100? A new study finds that people age better if they have a sense of purpose in life. Purposeful living has already been linked to other aspects of wellbeing, like lower risk of disease, but this one of the first studies that examined how people physically change over Read More...
Older adults' forgetfulness tied to faulty brain rhythms in sleep
Older brains may forget more because they lose their rhythm at night. During deep sleep, older people have less coordination between two brain waves that are important to saving new memories, a team reports in the journal Read More...
Inside the world of a Kenyan cryptocurrency miner
Eugene Mutai is well aware of the risks of mining virtual money. "Sometimes I ask myself: will the bubble pop?" He's right to be -- cryptocurrencies are Read More...
How the aviation industry is lowering its carbon footprint
Imagine how much cleaner the air would be if 3 million cars were taken off the roads in your city. A hint: Banning just half of Beijing’s 3.3 million cars before the 2008 Olympics cleared its skyline within a few Read More...
Billionaire Peter Thiel helped fund plans to build the world's first floating city
Nearly a decade ago, billionaire Peter Thiel cofounded a nonprofit called Seasteading Institute, and contributed seed funding toward what could become the world's first floating city. By 2020, the Institute aims to build a dozen floating Read More...
Giant rats increase their attack on tuberculosis in Tanzania
The use of giant rats to sniff out the potentially deadly disease tuberculosis (TB) in Tanzania is set to nearly double by the end of the year due to successful detection rates, a charity who trains them Read More...
This graph makes it easy to keep track of the clean energy race
Nearly every country in the world is racing to make the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It’s not an easy race to follow, especially with each country using different means to generate energy. On top of that, the terminology can be a bit hard to visualize. Do you know how much a Read More...
How black farmers are fighting discrimination by growing food
Did you know that more than 90 percent of farmers in the U.S. are white? Did you know that African-Americans are also 1.5 times as likely to be obese as white people, and that they eat fewer vegetables than other racial groups? For these reasons, a number of activists have started a movement in Read More...