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Vacations are good for workers—and for businesses
The majority of Americans work during their vacation, and most only take half of their allotted vacation time, according to a recent study. While you might think that working during your downtime is a selfless sacrifice for your beloved employer, it might be that taking a real vacation—as in not Read More...
More efficient use of cropland could feed 3 billion more people
This is a major part of the favorite doom scenario’s of future pessimists: There’s not enough food to feed a growing world population. However a new study published in Science by researchers at the University of Minnesota found that more efficient agricultural practices could feed 3 billion Read More...
Practicing meditation will make you wiser
Meditation is becoming more and more popular in business. And that makes sense. Research conducted by business schools INSEAD and The Wharton School has found that short meditation sessions—of about 15 minutes a day, will allow you to make smarter decisions. Meditation limits “sunk–cost Read More...
American cars are finally becoming more fuel-efficient
American cars guzzle some 9 million barrels of oil per day. And the American car industry has been notoriously late with implementing fuel-efficiency standards. But faced with a US EPA and Department of Transportation mandate that cars must have an average fuel–efficiency of 54.5 MPG by 2025 the Read More...
Value of new digital currency is determined by reputation
Internet currencies as Bitcoin turn money into something completely virtual. Values are determined by rules of mathematics and programmers and freed from banks and government. But entrepreneur J. Chris Anderson wants to reform money even further. His Document Coin is less about replacing dollars Read More...
Message from fish: Two thinking heads are better than one
We call a group of fish a school. And there maybe a good reason for that. Researchers found that when 2 fish swim together, they make better decisions than when 2 fish are swimming alone. While the cause for fish’s strength in numbers is not completely understood, humans benefit from group Read More...
Four simple steps to add 10 years to your life
Researchers estimate that a healthy lifestyle can add a whole decade to your life—and they hope this information will be a motivator for people to change their behavior before it’s too late. The World Health Organization has identified four factors that have the biggest impact on promoting Read More...
Apartment design that encourages relationship building
One day I encountered my upstairs neighbor in the hallway of my apartment building. We both had been living there already for a couple of years, but never met her before. It turned out we had a lot in common and we became good friends, and we always wondered why we didn’t meet earlier, living Read More...
New implants enable mice to “see sound”
Cochlear hearing implants transmit sounds from an external microphone to neurons in the brain through small electrodes, the implant will give deaf the ability to hear, but the sound is very poor and distorted. Researchers from Germany, Japan, South Korea and Singapore worked together to come up Read More...
Can ants reverse global warming?
When minerals break down they capture CO2. In the past 65 million years—before recent global warming—the dissolution of calcium and magnesium is cited as a main reason for the gradual reduction in atmospheric CO2. But breaking down minerals is not an easy or cheap process. However a study Read More...