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Electric cars make cities cooler
Electric cars are cool in more than one way. Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered that electric cars emit 20 percent less heat than conventional cars. This will mitigate the so-called “urban heat island effect,” meaning that cities are warmer than the surrounding areas. Read More...
Virgin is working on electric cars, may take on Tesla
Sometimes it seems that Elon Musk and Tesla are already dominating the emerging electric car future. But that may not be for long. Yesterday Richard Branson told Bloomberg that his Virgin Group that covers airlines, mobile phones, spaceships and more, is working on electric cars. Branson spoke with Read More...
Video games are recruiting the best employees for tech companies
Send a cover letter? Show up for an interview? How outdated! Tech companies are now turning to video games to see if they can find the perfect candidate for the new job. Starfighter creates video games that allow players to show the skills needed for a new job. One game may invite you “to break Read More...
Reading problems? Go outdoors. The sun is the answer to short-sightedness
Short-sightedness—myopia—is reaching epidemic proportions. Decades ago education seemed the culprit—too much reading. Then scientists blamed the computer. Reading more or spending more time at the computer should then lead to more myopia. However, studies showed it didn’t. New research Read More...
First US city moves against the car; will pay drivers to use public transit
Many cities in the world are battling congestion problems with charging drivers more money to enter the city at peak travel times. Since ten years, London charges $18 to enter the city on most weekdays. Studies show reduced traffic, pollution, and fewer traffic deaths. In the US—the empire of Read More...
Breastfed babies perform better later in life
People who had been breastfed are more intelligent, spent longer at school, and earn more than those who had not been. The longer they were breastfed as a baby, the better they were doing. Those are the results of a major study from Brazil, studying participants over three decades. The study, of Read More...
Landmark ruling in Connecticut could erase marijuana possession convictions
In the U.S., a conviction for possession of marijuana can follow you for a lifetime. This may change. Earlier this week, Connecticut’s supreme court ruled in favor of 31-year-old Nicholas Menditto who argued that his two marijuana possession convictions should be erased now that less than a Read More...
13 tips to keeping it simple
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated,” Confucius said. So let’s find ways to avoid the energy-draining complexity of daily life. Clear your workspace. Write shorter emails. Show up early for appointments. Breathe. There’re 9 more Read More...
3-D printing in science fiction way works up to 100X faster
Current 3-D printing is, in fact, 2-D printing repeated until a three-dimensional object emerges. As clever as it is, it’s a long and cumbersome process that takes hours. Yesterday at TED 2015 Joseph DeSimone, professor at the University of North Caroline Chapel Hill, and cofounder of Carbon3D, Read More...
Signs of the end of coal in China
We’ve reported before on China’s unexpected reduction of coal in both production and consumption. For a report from the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm, it has now been calculated that since 2010 there have been two coal plants decommissioned or canceled for each coal plant that has been built. Does Read More...