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Robots’ duality in question: Technology saves lives despite potential for evil
The potential for robots to cause evil is a stark reality. At the same time, researchers and companies around the world are already demonstrating the power of robotics and AI technologies to save lives, including in the operating room and in areas hit by natural disasters. There, in a nutshell, are Read More...
Summer reading suggestion: The Monk and the Philosopher
Some books are worth bringing up time and time again. This thoughtful essay about The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life provides us with a great opportunity to revisit what remains a most compelling, intelligent—some would say enlightening—dialogue about Read More...
Graphene-based supercapacitors point to breakthrough for electric cars
Better batteries are seemingly the only missing link between today’s fossil-fuel intensive transportation and the expected advent of the electric car. Batteries need to be cheaper, quickly rechargeable, provide better range, while demonstrating a sustainable lifecycle. A supercapacitor developed Read More...
Putting learning before grades to prevent cheating among students
Cheating is endemic among students, and is sometimes rampant even among teachers. Two decades of research show that this behavior is very dependent on goals. Short-term extrinsic goals such as getting good grades to avoid punishment or to obtain a reward provide a breeding ground for cheating. Read More...
How architects mitigate the Ecological Footprint of a growing population
It is a well-established fact that mankind consumes more than 1.5 as much renewable natural resources as the planet can generate. In fact, if everyone lived like the average American, we would need the equivalent of five planets. With already more than half of the world’s population living in Read More...
Growing food security in Argentina, one school garden at the time
Up to 35 percent of children in Argentina live in households with “unmet basic needs.” Only 53 percent receive of those receive food assistance. Here is the inspiring story of the Huerta Niño Foundation, an organization founded in 1999 to build agroecological school gardens in low-income areas Read More...
The power of thought shapes our physical world, including our bodies
Water constitutes about three quarters of the human body mass. Science shows that water is significantly impacted by thoughts, as observed in the varying shapes of frozen water crystals. The idea that science will soon be able to demonstrate that our bodies are deeply affected by our state of mind Read More...
Hacking the human biofield
A shaman’s advice to get on the fast road to enlightenment. Nature invests in the continuance of the species by programming us to procreate—to have sex. As enjoyable as that may be, many of us are equally interested in our longevity, which is of little use to nature. Once our reproductive years Read More...
Free your voice, free yourself
Singing allows us to tap the very core of our being. Jan Kortie draws on the power of song in a form of therapy he calls voice liberation. Tune in to the sound of the soul. Cut out that caterwauling,” my brother and sister used to say when I walked through the house as a kid, singing at the top Read More...
Polluting is stealing
Lawyer and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains why fighting climate change starts with a better-functioning democracy. We’ve been talking for five minutes about subjects like sustainable energy, climate change and environmental pollution when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 60, brings up Read More...