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Pin point your favorite wine with the Plonk App
There are so many varieties of wine it can be hard—and also fun—deciding which is your favorite. Now an application called Plonk will help you decide where to start as a novice sommelier. The app has a wine dictionary, a run down of varieties by country, gives you food pairings, and will Read More...
New York bans Styrofoam
Single-use Styrofoam containers are horrible, they don’t biodegrade so they pile up in landfills. Now New York City has joined a few others across the US and has announced a ban on single-use Styrofoam, set to go into law July 1 this year. While some are worried about the impact this new law will Read More...
Ghana, Togo pact brings drinking water to 4 million
Water sources in Togo are scarce, and their groundwater is quickly drying up. Now an agreement of understanding has recently been signed by Ghana and Togo that will bring fresh drinking water from the Volta River in Ghana to the coastal city of Lomé, Togo. The new water source will benefit some 4 Read More...
Germany covers stretches of highway with parks
The A7 bisects the northern German city of Hamburg. The A7 is also one of the largest and longest freeways in German and keeps getting busier and louder. It’s becoming so loud that its breaching national noise pollution levels and a new idea to make the highway quieter will soon be reunifying Read More...
Mind matters when it comes to muscle strength
“If you can see it, you can do it,” an old cliché that describes envisioning your goals. A new study conducted at Ohio University has taken that saying to the next level, and found that mental visions of exercise possibly play as critical of a roll in muscle growth as actually exercising. The Read More...
Spend more time outside, even in the cold
In the cold winter months sitting cozily on the couch wrapped up in a blanket is much more appealing than going outside in the wet, cold, maybe even snowy day. But it’s important to force yourself to bundle up, and get outside even when the temperature drops to somewhere around freezing. Studies Read More...
Why satire is so important
In the wake of the horrible massacre at Charlie Hebdo we have to remember the importance of satire and why it is so vital to save. Satire is meant to show the world, in a funny way, that there are problems everywhere, with everyone, and that even those we hold on such high regard put their pants on Read More...
Waste-to-water system is a sanitation miracle
Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from contaminated water. But a new device developed with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has found a solution that solves the problem of sanitation and finding potable drinking water. The device is called an Omniprocessor and Read More...
Polar bears go with the flow for climate change
The climate is changing, and though legislation and individual’s taking action will limit how bad climate change will get, it is the most pressing issue we face as a global community. Polar bears seem to be adapting to climate change rather well, and though researchers were initially worried Read More...
Germany’s new energy plan is proving successful
Germany is undergoing what they call ‘Energiewende,’ English for ‘energy transition’. The German state is undergoing a serious shift from fossil fuel dominated energy sources to one that’s full of renewables. Critics of the new energy plan said that the mere shift would cause an increase Read More...