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Researchers get closer to Alzheimer’s cure
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered what causes Alzheimer’s—potentially leading to a cure. The scientists noticed that disease sets in when a particular type of cell in the brain, called microglia, stops working. Microglia clean your brain, they keep out viruses and prevent Read More...
Cost of solar energy dropping in the US
The newest Gold Rush will have us mining for sunshine. The Deutsche Bank, a global banking and financial services company, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the nation’s primary laboratory for research on renewable energy development, have both Read More...
Laughing drives depression away
It might seem like a silly headline, but nitrous oxide—the same laughing gas used to ease pain and anxiety at the dentist—can be used to treat people with clinical depression. A new study had two groups of participants inhale gasses, one inhaled nitrous oxide, the other group inhaled a placebo. Read More...
Crowd-sourced seizure prediction breakthrough
A crowd-sourced online contest for data scientists has come up with a seizure-predicting model that accurately predicts seizures 82 percent of the time. Seizures impact about one percent of the population, and are described as electrical storms that take place in the brain. Earlier models did Read More...
Organic farming can feed the world
One of the main arguments against organic farming is the harvest numbers. It’s a widely held belief that without using chemicals to grow your food there’s no way of keeping bugs from eating at least a portion of your crop, so organic farms must have crop yields substantially lower than chemical Read More...
Amazon uses bike messengers to deliver within the hour in New York
The most daring of Amazon’s distribution dreams is, of course, the drone that flies to your home and drops a package before the front door. That’s still future—and perhaps less “distant” than we now think. In the mean time the online shopping giant tries to speed up her distribution in Read More...
Salt-water greenhouses could lead to desert farming
Sweet water is scarce and the agriculture to produce our food uses most of it. So this is a really helpful innovation: A greenhouse that uses salt water—without the need for desalination. The project is a greenhouse made out of a cardboard-like material that has thousands of tiny holes in it. Read More...
Millennials choose sustainability, change business and the world
The socially responsible business sector is exploding. Some estimates say that businesses that put people and the planet before profits cover over $6 trillion in assets—a 300 percent increase in the last decade. A large factor driving the growth are millennials—those born between 1980 and Read More...
The Transformative Studies Program: Big Impact, Low Risk
The Transformative Studies Program, the next generation of The Intelligent Optimist’s highly successful Course in Spiritual Healing & Transformation, launches in January 2015. With it comes the chance to transform yourself and the world around you. To live fully in possibility. To chart your Read More...
Using the Olympics to teach English to one million Brazilians
Speaking English means access to the world. That’s today’s reality of travel and the Internet. But there are still a lot of places where English is hardly spoken. Brazil is such a place. That’s why English First, and international English teaching school, has partnered with the Brazilian Read More...