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How New York can use self-driving cars to unclog its streets
While most estimates suggest that it will still take decades before autonomous vehicles will be adopted, manufacturers like Ford and Tesla, alongside tech giants like Google and Uber, are neck-and-neck in the race to bring self-driving cars into the mainstream. Simply put, self-driving cars will be Read More...
Why have so few women been awarded Nobel Prizes?
This is an important question. And the answer of the Nobel Prize committee is sincere but not satisfying. Since the Nobel Peace Prize was founded in 1901, women have only won 49 out of the 923 prizes; that is about one in every 20. See here what the committee had to Read More...
Save yourself from a lifetime of clutter with ‘Swedish death cleaning’
No, the term Swedish death cleaning is not about scouring your entire home from top to bottom to the point of physical collapse. What it really refers to is the act of slowly and steadily decluttering your home as the years go by, ideally beginning in your fifties (or at any point in life) and Read More...
Vanuatu now accepts bitcoin as payment for citizenship status
Ever wish you could be like those spies in the movies with multiple passports? Or, perhaps your escape to Canada hasn’t worked out quite the way you planned? A tiny island nation in the South Pacific has you covered, for a Read More...
Old prison complex to be transformed into a buzzing eco-forward neighborhood
OMA is in the business of turning trash into treasure by redeveloping an old prison complex and turning it into an eco-city neighborhood. OMA will be redeveloping the Bijlmerbajes prison in Amsterdam into a neighborhood called the Bajes Kwartier in Read More...
GM advances stealthily into disaster relief zones with autonomous fuel cell concept
With hurricanes and disaster relief top of mind for the US government, General Motors is this week presenting military leaders with a platform design it hopes can one day help. The multi-vehicle Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS) uses a fuel cell powertrain and autonomous Read More...
7 TED talks to help you give thanks
These TED Talks will help you conjure up massive amounts of gratitude. TED Talks are free thanks to Read More...
How to practice lagom, the Swedish secret to a balanced life
Fourteen years ago, Niki Brantmark was invited to spend her summer vacation with a friend on Sweden's West Coast. "It was the perfect setting for the beginnings of a love affair—not only with my Swedish husband but also with the Swedish way of Read More...
Italy’s high-rise forests take root around the world
Cities currently produce about three quarters of CO2 present in the atmosphere. To fight such pollution, more and more cities around the world are taking of note of the Bosco Verticales (Vertical Forests) in Milan, two apartment towers adorned with more than 20,000 trees and planets. Not only does Read More...
Electric vehicles made up nearly half of all new cars sales in Norway last month
California is often touted as the capital of electric cars, but a new report indicates that title belongs to Norway. In the month of September, the Scandinavian country reported 6,524 new registrations of plug-in electric cars, taking a record 48.4 percent of the market share. The big surprise Read More...