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US and India will fight climate change together
President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have hashed out a new agreement to attack the changing climate together. In a recent announcement both leaders pledged to combat climate change with actionable results, India will add 100 gigawatts of solar power by 2022, and the US will help Read More...
Obama proposes to protect Artic from drilling
Yesterday President Obama proposed legislation that would designate12.3 million acres of Alaskan forest as a wildlife refuge, the highest of protected status. Obama’s measure would ban all oil production in the protected area, keeping some 10 billion barrels underfoot. The bill is already under Read More...
Ebola vaccines arrive in Liberia
The Ebola outbreak that started a year ago is the worst in human history. Thankfully late last week Liberia received the first shipments of British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental Ebola vaccine. The first large scale Ebola vaccination is currently underway with 300 vaccines being Read More...
Video based intervention reduces signs of autism
Child developmental therapy cannot cure autism in children diagnosed with the disorder, but a new study has found that video intervention could help. Researchers discovered that parents who watched video lessons that showed them how develop their baby’s attention span, communication abilities, Read More...
Electric vehicle charging for apartment dwellers
Electric vehicles (EVs) are the cars of the future, they’re environmentally friendly, and pretty easy to charge—just plug it in over night. But what if you’re one of the millions of Americans that live in an apartment without your own garage? A new company called Powertree aims to solve that Read More...
Friends improve your heart’s health
Loneliness has been linked to higher mortality rates for some time now. A study done in the late 70s found that over a 9 year study period individuals with the least number of social ties died at a rate twice that of those with the most social ties. Now a new study conducted by Canadian researchers Read More...
Bill and Melinda gates see big changes coming in the next 15 years
Every year for the past five years Bill and Melinda Gates have written an open letter talking about their foundation, and the work that it’s doing. In this year’s letter the Gates spoke at great length about the improvements that will be coming over the next 15 years for people in developing Read More...
Amazon builds giant wind farm
More and more tech companies are trying to go green, and Amazon is no exception. The web services company announced that it is constructing a 150-megawatt wind farm in Indiana. 150 megawatts provides enough power to serve around 46,000 US homes, however this giant wind facility will be used to Read More...
App lets you lend your eyes to the blind
Blind people are as independent and able as any seeing person. But I could imagine there are times when it would be helpful to be able to “borrow” someone’s eyes. A new app called Be My Eyes lets you do that, not literally of course. The way it works is Be My Eyes connects blind people to Read More...
Eat walnuts for better memory
Just a handful of walnuts per day, or less, can noticeably improve your memory, according to a new study. The study had thousands of study participants consisting of over 20 year olds living in the US and found that those who ate more walnuts performed better on cognitive tests they were Read More...