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New UK guidelines say homebirths are safer
Along with feeling more comfortable, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), an arm of the UK’s department of health, has said that home births are safer. The group says that women who give birth at home are 5 times less likely to need a cesarean section, 4 times less likely Read More...
Biowaste toilets solves stinky problem for Kenyan school
Last year the Maseno School in western Kenya completed a substantial renovation. A major part was a brand new 720-student dormitory, but what the renovation lacked was a new sanitation system; the current one is stinky and is polluting a nearby stream that provides drinking water to a community. Read More...
The car of the future could drive on air without ever needing fuelling
The clean car story gets better and better. Current electric car still need batteries that require not so nice chemicals and time for recharging. The hydrogen fuel cell car is the next step with the fuel cell powering the electric engine. The first such cars will enter the roads of Japan and Read More...
Teachers re-think the benefits of video games
Videogames pose extreme competition to schools. Games are fun; class is dull. That’s why video games have all but been banned from classrooms, but that tide may be changing as teachers discover that fun may stimulate learning… Minecraft is a videogame where you can build anything you want in a Read More...
Flexibility and independence makes workers happier and more productive
The rat race is a drag, fighting the rush hour is a headache, and sitting in a drab cubicle all day can be life draining. More and more firms are going virtual, allowing their workers to work from home full time, or come into the office only a few times a month. It makes sense. Workers are happier Read More...
Harnessing the power of waves with an floating hydraulic squid
Harnessing wave power in the seas around Scotland, a new hydraulic energy-capturing device shows promise. The floating squid-like mechanism is made of a central ballast shaft and three attached arms. As the arms move along an X,Y, and Z axis the hydraulic connecting points harness the energy as the Read More...
A classroom without teachers that comes to remote places
In Nigeria an estimated 10 million children don’t go to school. A new approach to education called the Hello Hub uses the latest technology to bring a classroom to remote villages. The Hello Hub is a solar powered kiosk that has a computer filled with educational games and Internet connectivity. Read More...
100 ways to be 100: sources
1 Your healthy diet The Metabolic Typing Diet, William Wolcott : New York: Doubleday, 2000 4 Cook from scratch The carcinogenic bisphenol A: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222978/ Phthalate: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801170/ 5 Eat a “power Read More...
A magic wand saves energy while making tea
We boil too much water for the cups of tea we drink. And as the leading tea-drinkers in the western world, the British are in the right position to figure that out. They have calculated that the collective extra energy used to bring a whole kettle to boil when you only need a cup’s worth of water Read More...
Aerodynamic trucks would save billions of gallons of diesel
Energy saving is good business. Take the trucks that carry the majority of freight around the United States. Two million tractor-trailer trucks burn about 36 billion gallons of diesel per year. Researchers have discovered that if 18-wheelers retrofit trailer skirts along the bottom sides of trucks, Read More...