Search
Total number of posts: 23916
Pigeons with backpacks have started monitoring air pollution in London
A team of sensor-equipped pigeons has taken to the skies over London in order to monitor the capital's notoriously high pollution levels. Pigeon Air Patrol, as the project is known, was created by Plume Labs, a startup currently crowdfunding the Plume sensor, a personal air quality Read More...
Return of the Bicycle Kingdom? How pavement cycling is transforming Taipei
A swarm of scooters forms at the head of a queue of traffic waiting for the lights to change. Visors down, engines revving, they jockey for position ahead of the cars, trucks and buses on a specially marked patch of tarmac reserved for cyclists in many parts of the world. The buzz rises to a Read More...
The future of progressive business is companies that are good, not just doing good
These days, we have high expectations of what companies should be. It’s not enough that they make good products. They also need to be good citizens. We expect them to minimize their social and environmental harm, to report their "impacts," and to give money to charity. And we expect them to Read More...
Prefab homes for $150,000 that don't need any energy from the grid
Homes in the U.S are responsible for 13 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Building net-zero homes would help bring that number down. But, so far, building such energy efficient homes is expensive. One home-building company is changing this. Deltec homes is designing prefab Read More...
Research shows that gut bacteria control cancer
Scientists are discovering a new potential ally in the fight against cancer: The trillions of bacteria that live in the human body. According to a recent study bacteria found in the gastrointestinal tract were as effective as an immunotherapy in controlling the growth of skin cancer. Scientists in Read More...
Hospital introduces acupuncture in the emergency room with promising results
A hospital in Minneapolis is reporting success using acupuncture in its emergency room to treat conditions ranging from car accident injuries to migraines to kidney stones. The hospital was the first in the U.S. to staff its ER with an acupuncturist two years ago. After tracking 182 patients, it Read More...
Companies do good because “it’s the right thing to do”, study says
Why do companies launch social-responsibility programs (CSR)? Is it a genuine effort? Or is it merely window dressing? A study of 4,500 American firms, executed over a 19-year span, aims to explain the rise of CSR. The outcome generates a sense of hope and optimism. The researchers found that many Read More...
One simple investment in your health: Eat more vegetables
We all know how important veggies are for our health, and yet a whopping 87 percent of the U.S population doesn’t reach the recommended minimum goal of 2 to 3 cups of vegetables a day. Vegetables give your skin a “natural glow” and help ward off signs of aging by improving blood flow to the Read More...
After 80 years of being banned, hemp takes root in American soil again
It has been eight decades since U.S. drug laws made growing hemp in American soil illegal. Today barely 1% of Americans are farming hemp. Before it was prohibited in 1937, that number was 30% and our hemp was considered among the best in the world. Hemp is finally beginning to make a comeback after Read More...
Why more high tech professionals are thinking low tech
I thought about starting the busy week ahead by reflecting on how the fight between Apple and the FBI has become nastier than the audience at a Donald Trump rally. I also considered trying to convince you of the merits of the lowest-tech experience you can imagine: attending Major League Read More...