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Getting Old
“I’m trying to save the lives of 100,000 people a day” Call him crazy, but Aubrey de Grey believes that people can live for hundreds of years: it’s just a technological leap we haven’t made yet. We hate to bring this up, but the odds are that you’ll get old and sick one day and then Read More...
Health Aging
Kris Verburgh knows how you can age well and lose weight, but don’t call him a diet guru. Many pages into writing his new book, Kris Verburgh realized the truth. Darn it, he was writing a diet book! This from someone who dislikes diet books. “I don’t believe in diets,” he says. “I’m not Read More...
Turn up the stress
Even as we anxiously try to avoid and suppress it, more and more research shows that stress is actually beneficial. It results in better performance, keeps us alert and is even good for our health. One morning in 2007, Arianna Huffington awoke in a pool of blood on the floor of her office. She had Read More...
Anti-corruption stance of Nigeria’s president-elect causes regional ripple effect
Corruption has long been regarded as a crime against development, and rightly so. Sub-Saharan African nations are overly represented among the worst affected. In Nigeria, rich oil reserves and prolonged armed conflicts have made the country a hotbed for corruption. This week’s pledge by Read More...
Hyundai’s hydrogen-powered SUV to run on sewage in South California
For all the recent advance on the electric car market, it is good to see that other alternatives to fossil fuel transportation are also making progress. Low-emission-car pioneer Hyundai is soon to introduce a fuel cell version of its 2015 Tucson in Orange County that will run on biogas produced Read More...
US solar firms invest to power more than 200.000 homes in rural Kenya
Decentralized solar holds huge potential to meet electricity demand in regions of the world where no centralized power grid is available. California-based Powerhive and First Solar plan to reach more than 200,000 homes and businesses with solar-powered micro-grids. The project will address some Read More...
Scientists in China show organic farm can store more carbon than it emits
Agriculture is a driving factor of global greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock alone contributes 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The good news is that healthy soil is a carbon sink. The main technology required is affordable, readily Read More...
Lift the leaden lid off a stagnant job hunt
A fruitless job search in soul numbing, at best. And depressing, often. If you’re feeling stuck and at the end of your wits, or know someone who is, you may enjoy this heartening pep talk. Nothing like some sound advice from a kind stranger who has walked in one’s shoes to shake off the leaden Read More...
Smartphones help alleviate depression in rural India
India has among the highest rates of depression in the world and only one psychiatrist for more than 300,000 people on average. Rural areas fare the worst, with a higher rate of suicides among farmers than the rest of the population. A program launched by the government’s National Rural Health Read More...
Uganda to use new data app to prevent corruption in public works
Nowhere is corruption as endemic as in public works, according to Transparency International. One major enabler is the absence of accurate, reliable data. M-App, an app developed by two students from the New School in New York, aims to change that. It recently won joint first prize at the social Read More...