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World's most breathtaking greenhouses
"The yearning for nature is really strong, and particularly if you're a city dweller, it's even more important." Jim Eyre, one of the founding directors of WilkinsonEyre, speaks as an architect who can attest to the power of nature within an urban environment. He is part of the team responsible for Read More...
Is the Library of Things an answer to our peak stuff problem?
The carpet is filthy. Guests are about to arrive. You have several choices: buy a carpet cleaning machine (around £130 upwards), pay for a professional cleaning company (about £40), or rent a machine from a private hire firm (around £29 for two days). Or, if you live in West Read More...
Kimbal Musk's new accelerator in Brooklyn will train vertical farmers
When it opens this fall in Brooklyn, a new urban farm will grow a new crop: farmers. The Square Roots campus, co-founded by entrepreneurs Kimbal Musk and Tobias Peggs, will train new vertical farmers in a year-long accelerator program. "Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with Read More...
Denmark has figured out how to teach kids empathy and make them happier adults
Empathy, or the ability to read another person’s emotions, is a critical life skill. Many fear children are losing it—and that they’ll be less happy as adults as a result. A University of Michigan study of nearly 14,000 college students found that students today have about 40% Read More...
Building computers with nanowires made from bacteria
You know the nanowires used in computers? Well, researchers from the U.S Navy have found a way to craft them from a genetically modified bacteria found just about anywhere on Earth. The team of researchers altered the bacteria so that it would be 2,000 times better at conducting electricity at the Read More...
Aussie scientists set solar efficiency record
Scientists from the land down under have set a world record in efficiency for a solar thermal dish generating steam used to create electricity. The Australian scientists redesigned their concentrating solar thermal system and found that 97% of sunlight was converted into steam. It’s the best Read More...
Welsh charity donates funds to protect a large swath of the Amazon rainforest
The Size of Wales charity has raised enough donations to protect an area of the Amazon rainforest the size of, you guessed it, Wales. Together with the charity’s work in Guyana, some two million hectares of rainforest will be spared from loggers and protected by locals backed with Welsh funding. Read More...
Germany's plans for the successful integration of refugees
As one prominent Canadian journalist put it, cities that have experienced a large influx of refugees can be “where the new creative and commercial class will be born, or where the next wave of tension and violence will erupt.” Germany wants to make sure it’s not the latter. In a new Read More...
What to do when you don't feel satisfied after completing goals
The arrival fallacy: The moment where you succeed in reaching a goal, only to realize it wasn’t everything you thought it would be. We live in a goal-oriented society where motivation is driven by the objectives set forth, but what if life doesn’t really look or feel any different? Such a Read More...
Paris is redesigning its major intersections for pedestrians, not cars
Right now, the Place de la Bastille in Paris is basically a traffic island: A huge memorial sits in the middle of a road packed with cars. There's no way to easily cross the street on foot. But that will soon change. The square is one of seven major sites that Paris is redesigning for pedestrians Read More...