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Toyota gives away fuel cell patents
Last year Tesla gave away the patents for their sleek electric car. Now Toyota followed suite and has released some 5,680 patents related to their hydrogen, and fuel cell technology. The idea is that innovators working together to find a solution is better than hoarding intellectual property for a Read More...
Growbot makes urban agriculture viable
Urban agriculture projects are nice community exercises, but they aren’t commercially viable, and really aren’t that safe—one study found hazardous levels of lead in half of the root vegetables grown in New York City’s community gardens. Growbot is a modular planter box that solves all Read More...
Talking to your children will make them smarter
Many studies have found that the more you talk to your baby, the faster they will develop vocabulary and even have a noticeably higher IQ. Studies have also found that lower income parents talk to their children less than rich parents. Now government backed initiatives are teaching new parents to Read More...
Obama saves Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay, Alaska is the most northeastern part of the Bering Sea, home to the largest salmon population in the world, and accounts for 40 percent of the seafood caught in the US—worth about $2 billion annually. Bristol Bay is also rich in oil and gas deposits, sitting deep below the beautiful Read More...
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...