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2014 was a great year for the sharing economy
The sharing economy boomed in 2014. By year’s end there were close to 8,000 businesses whose goal was to increase sharing. Additionally, governments and big business are taking a hard look at the sharing economy and seeing a promising future. Finally, controversies over house sharing platform Read More...
Be The Change!
Amidst challenges, setbacks and painful events, many, many more things in our world go right than wrong. Enjoy this compilation. And share it: While we are spreading the better news, we're making it as Read More...
Mosquito nets halve malaria deaths
Malaria is a terrible killer disease that can be easily prevented: Steer clear from mosquitoes. But that’s, of course, much easier said than done. Yet that’s exactly what has brought the deaths caused by malaria down with 50% since 2001. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 4.3 Read More...
Paraplegic man walks again
In a scientific first, cells from a patient’s own body have been used to heal his spinal cord, allowing him to walk again. The procedure was carried out on Darek Fidyka, a 40-year-old Polish man who in 2010 fell victim to a knife attack that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Polish surgeons Read More...
Copper bedrails would reduce hospital infections
When it comes to the risk of nasty infections—paradoxically—hospitals are the worst places to go. It’s estimated that one in 25 patients will receive an infection from the hospital they are going to for treatment. Now a new startup, Copper Biohealth, has found that copper bedrails reduce the Read More...
Device keeps produce fresh without a refrigerator
For small farmers in developing countries up to half of their crops rot before making it to market. The Wakati solves that problem and keeps crops fresh without needing lots of electricity or cold. Basically the Wakati is a tent made of insulated fabric and a small solar powered fan on the side. Read More...
Restoring Alzheimer’s memory loss could be possible
It’s been a long held notion that memories are stored in the synapses of the brain—the parts that connect one area to another. Alzheimer’s degrades the synapses, and thus destroys memories; even if you could regrow the synapses you cannot regrow the memories. A new study from University of Read More...
Madrid is changing all streetlights for energy efficient ones
The city of Madrid has announced the largest energy efficient lighting project in the world. The project will reduce the city’s energy cost 44 percent by replacing old lamps with 225,000 energy efficient bulbs. And according to bulb manufacturer Phillips the project will pay for itself. Read More...
The art of receiving
During a visit to Paris, my mother bought me a gift and dropped it in the mail. I didn’t receive it very well. I tore away the brown paper packaging and, at the first sign of pink, let the package fall to the floor. She had sent me a gray cotton scarf with pink flowers. Pink. When I told my Read More...
Gecko inspired grippers to clean space
There’s human debris floating around the earth, and cleaning it up is posing to be a challenging task. Researchers from NASA’s laboratory in Pasadena, California have come up with a gripping device that could be affixed to robots to clean space. The gripping pads work the same way a gecko Read More...