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Tesla enters EU and ramps up production with purchase of German Engineering company
Tesla has added another piece to the puzzle in its quest to bring electric cars to the whole world. The electric carmaker has agreed to buy German’s Grohmann Engineering group, which develops automated manufacturing systems for batteries and fuel cells. The acquisition will help Tesla expand its Read More...
Learn to dance, take the stairs and 8 other ways to train your brain
The world has a bit of an obsession with looking young, but do we think enough about training to keep our brains young? Although a quarter of brain-aging is due to genes, the rest can be attributed to our lifestyle habits. There are many things you can do to train your brain to work at full Read More...
How to be a better forgiver
The past 12 months have seen more than their fair share of tragedy and injustice: violence between citizens and police, terror attacks, divisive elections. With so much pain and suffering caused, the question is: can we change our ways to resolve this anger and trauma? The answer is "yes", but it Read More...
Carnegie Wave Energy is bringing their clean energy and desalination technology to the UK
Australia-based company Carnegie Wave Energy (CWE) will bring their wave power and desalination technology to Wave Hub in Cornwall, England. The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) granted 9.6 million pounds, around $11.8 million, to CWE for the first phase of their Wave Hub project. Read More...
Tesla likely to add solar power roofs to cars
In a Twitter exchange today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will likely add solar charging technology to the roofs of future all-electric cars. "We will probably offer that as an option," Musk wrote in the Twitter exchange with Tesla enthusiasts. In answer to one enthusiast who doubted the Read More...
A Google mindfulness program that makes meditation a lot less frustrating
Over the past few years, I've had an on-again-and-off-again flirtation with meditation. It's on whenever I get jealous hearing someone talk about how their sitting practice has totally changed their life. I could do that, I think. And then I try sitting on my own for a few days and find it Read More...
Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness
Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness This is where awareness lives. Scientists have struggled for millennia to understand human consciousness - the awareness of one's existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don't really know where it comes Read More...
Urban trees can save lives by reducing air pollution and temperature
A new study from The Nature Conservancy finds that an investment in tree planting of just US $4 per resident in some of the world’s largest cities could improve the health of tens of millions of people by reducing air pollution and cooling city streets. Released at the American Public Health Read More...
The amazing benefits of grass-fed beef
I have been fascinated by the permanence and healing power of grassland for 15 years now. If we respect the great original wisdom of the prairies, I’m convinced we can heal the wounds inflicted on the American landscape by industrial agriculture. But in America, the question is always does it Read More...
Look to California to meet Paris climate goals
California’s bipartisan leadership on the environment stretches from the towering influence of John Muir, to tailpipe standards that provided a model for the federal Clean Air Act, to today’s efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions and expand renewable energy. That leadership is especially Read More...