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Be accepting to help your friends lose weight
I love all of my friends just the way they are, but sadly, not everyone does. Often people are critical of their friend’s body image, negatively impacting them. A new study found that for women who were concerned about their weight, those that had accepting friends maintained the same weight, and Read More...
Curing disease will save more lives than fighting terrorism
Check any major news source and you’ll undoubtedly see stories about the most recent bomb blast or terrorist attack. But deaths from terrorist attacks make cause only a fraction of worldwide deaths annually—it’s about one ten-thousandth. Meanwhile deaths related to kidney disease, suicides, Read More...
Young east-coasters are making farming cool again
For the past three decades the average age of a US farmer has been rising and now is about 60. For generations farming was looked at as “uncool” but now 20-and-30-somethings are rethinking this old stigmatism, and trading laptops for corn crops. In Maine, young east coasters are taking up land Read More...
2015: The year of the hybrid car
There is an overwhelming sense that we, as a global society, are on the brink of a few great things, namely clean transportation for the masses. The Prius has reigned supreme in the world of hybrid cars, and Tesla’s Model S is a kind of posh version, but there has never been a wide selection of Read More...
Drones used to protect wildlife
So far drones have been used to ferry tuberculosis tests around Papua New Guinea, and track deforestation in Sumatra. Now drones are being used to keep track of wildlife from the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the shores of British Columbia (BC). The drones are watching hippos Read More...
Animals help kids with autism
Family pets have a multitude of benefits for every member of the family. But a recent study has found that children with autism benefit even more from furry friends. The study looked at families with children between the ages of eight and 18 who had a pet. Researchers discovered that children who Read More...
Sweden is close to nearly zero road deaths per year
In the 70s road deaths in Sweden were prevalent—58 children under-seven died in a road related accidents in 1970 alone. Now, Sweden has one of the lowest road related mortality rates of any country, just three per 100,000—compared to 5.5 in the European Union, or 11.4 in the US. So how did they Read More...
Algae used to clean old mines
Old mines are full of exposed chemicals like arsenic and cadmium. Mines are also often close to water sources, and cleaning the surrounding water from toxic contamination can seem like an insurmountable task. Now British researchers are testing a way to clean heavy metals from the water by using Read More...
Americans calling for solar and wind
Americans by large prefer alternative fuels like wind and solar instead of coal, oil, or nuclear energy—natural gas lands somewhere in between, with pros and cons. The findings were the results of a recently published study conducted over the past 12 years by Harvard researchers. Around 80 Read More...
New York crime rates hit record lows
In New York City crime rates in just about every category are declining substantially—particularly murder rates. 2014 saw murder rates at the lowest number in more than 50 years—since accurate figures started being recorded. This last year capped a two-decade fall in the Big Apple’s crime Read More...