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Being at peace with others' pain will help us be supportive of their pain
It can feel so utterly helpless to see a friend or family member in pain. You'd like to do something to help them out, take action, but sometimes, there's simply nothing better you can do than just to be at peace with the pain of others. This will actually help us to be supportive of their Read More...
Millennium development goals helped to lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty
According to the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals have driven “the most successful anti-poverty movement in history.” In the final assessment report of the goals, it became clear that the world has reduced the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day from 1.9 billion Read More...
Colorado drastically cuts teen pregnancies and abortions
Colorado’s teen birth rate plummeted 40 percent between 2009 and 2013. And that's all because the state has provided contraceptive implants or intrauterine devices (IUDs) at low or no cost to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado. The results were startling, not only the Read More...
New, luxurious high-rise in Kuala Lumpur features sustainable construction
This new high-rise in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is more than a fancy, luxurious residential. There's a keen eye for sustainable construction and maintenance practices. Daylighting and natural ventilation systems will be used in all staircases, elevator lobbies, corridors, and restrooms to cut Read More...
The small, electric "Robocab" is coming
We've all heard of electric cars. We've all heard of self-driving cars. And we know about Big Data. Combine all three and the future of transportation looks very different from now. That's the gist from a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, indicating that in years from now, small, Read More...
Want to get rid of traumas? Try playing Tetris!
You may not think of video games as being therapeutic. They have a reputation of sparking anti-social, violent behavior. Yet, they may help block flashbacks of traumatic events. A study at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, showed that manoeuvring the Read More...
Energy storage: the missing link of solar energy adoption
With solar panels on your roof you can generate your own energy. However most of that energy you won’t use yourself. The sun shines during the day when most people are at work. Their solar systems produce energy that’s exported back to the grid. Home energy storage systems allow people to use Read More...
Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will donate all of his wealth of $32 billion to charity
Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is one of the richest people in the world. He surprisingly announced last week that he will donate all of his wealth of $32 billion to charity over the coming years. The money will go to his own organization called Alwaleed Philanthropies. A statement on Read More...
A smokeless cookstove tries to counter millions of annual deaths from cooking with open fire
Throughout the developing world, people cook or heat by openly burning stuff, such as wood, animal dung or charcoal. Breathing in the smoke leads to severe health problems, with 4.3 million people dying a year, which is more than die of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Gathering wood, Read More...
This solar-powered plane just flew across the Pacific, without refueling
The Solar Impulse 2—a very innovative solar-powered airplane—has completed a historic flight from Japan to Hawaii without using one drop of fuel. The aircraft has been in the air for 118 hours, and flew more than 5100 miles. The distance covered and the time spent in the air are records for Read More...