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Saving the world with nonprofits run as startup businesses
Silicon Valley investors are increasingly treating nonprofits as conventional startup companies through accelerators. The number of tech non-profits worldwide is reaching record highs. Nonprofit tech startups differ from conventional charities because software or hardware has to be at the core of Read More...
Birds show aircraft how to avoid mid-air collisions
Birds have always been the inspiration for men when it comes to aviation. The Wright Brothers themselves spent a huge amount of time observing birds before achieving their first flight in 1903. Now researchers have been studying how birds avoid collisions. The birds have a simple rule: They always Read More...
Competition drives the electric car revolution to ever better results
The Paris Auto Show presents capitalism at its best. The fierce competition of the electric car revolution drives innovation. Volkswagen and Renault have been presenting new models that have even longer ranges than the Chevy Bolt that beat the Tesla record just a few weeks Read More...
Crowdfunding helps women to bridge gender gap in investment world
Most investors are men and that’s still a barrier for female entrepreneurs. However, equity crowdfunding is changing that. Equity crowdfunding makes it possible for everyone to invest in startup companies in exchange for equity. The phenomenon is still new in the U.S. In the U.K. equity-based Read More...
Meditation keeps emotional brain in check
Meditation can help tame your emotions even if you're not a mindful person, suggests a new study from Michigan State University. Reporting in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, psychology researchers recorded the brain activity of people looking at disturbing pictures immediately after Read More...
How the Obama administration led an American food movement
He was the first person to successfully cut in line at famous Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, where the wait for brisket runs three hours. Her culinary garden inspired budding green thumbs — young and old — to grow their own produce. Together, their penchant for dining out helped Read More...
Stop Brexit and save the EU
“Never let a crisis go to waste” has always been one of the European Union’s guiding principles. What about five simultaneous crises? Today, the EU faces what Frans Timmermans, the European commission vice-president, describes as a “multi-crisis”: Brexit, refugee Read More...
This coffee cart-on-a-bike franchise cleans the air as it brews
If an old-fashioned food cart makes cities a little dirtier—belching clouds of diesel exhaust as you wait for your tacos—a new mobile coffee cart does the opposite. The cart runs on solar and wind power and moves around the city on bike wheels. And it actually cleans the air directly Read More...
Thailand suspends seahorse trade amid conservation concerns
Seahorses, traded by the millions annually as an ingredient in traditional medicine in parts of Asia, are getting a reprieve from Thailand, the world’s biggest exporter of the animal. A marine biologist who works closely with Thailand on seahorse conservation welcomed the government’s Read More...
Hydrogen fuel cell four-seater passenger plane takes to the air
AircraftA collaboration of aircraft makers, fuel cell developers and university engineers have come a step closer to zero emission passenger flights with the first flight of a hydrogen fuel cell four-seater electric aircraft. The twin-cabin, (relatively) low-noise HY4 took off at 11:15 am (local) Read More...