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Britain raises speed limit for trucks to save lives
The relationship between speed and traffic accidents is clearly established. So it’s counterintuitive that Britain is raising the speed limit for trucks in an attempt to reduce the number of fatal car accidents. You know the situation: you’re on a two-lane highway and get stuck behind a slow Read More...
Google’s cars test for gas leaks minimizing unknown greenhouse gas emissions
The Google Streetview cars you see driving around your neighborhood are taking more than just pictures. Google has affixed sensors to their cars that detect natural gas leaks that are more common in the US than you might think—the cars picked up a leak every few blocks while driving through Read More...
Yes, you can create your own reality
Research shows that our thoughts are packets of energy. Einstein calculated that all energy can be transformed in mass, in matter. So our thoughts can become matter. And thus we can create our own reality. Despite the scientific logic, the concept may be hard to accept or even to test. But here’s Read More...
How do you learn to visualize?
Think of something you would like. For this exercise choose something simple, something you can easily imagine receiving. It can be something you want to have, an experience you would like, a situation you’d like to find yourself in, or a circumstance in your life you’d like to improve. Get Read More...
The power of positive thinking
The power of positive thinking is a ubiquitous notion in the American mind, but that was not always so. While its antecedents date back to Hermeticism, an ancient Greco-Egyptian philosophy for achieving esoteric powers, in today’s parlance “The Secret” had to be rediscovered after centuries Read More...
Rainforests are best protected by local communities
All the bad things that have ever happened to a forest—wildfires, slashing and burning, deforestation, etc. have come from humans. Yet a new study—Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change—from the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Resources and Rights Initiative (RRI) learned that the Read More...
Cable-less fiber optic design creates connections out of thin air
Radio waves work without cables. So do cell phones and wifi. However we still need wires to transmit light or electricity. That may change. The first experiments with wireless power transmission are being done and now researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a fiber optic laser that Read More...
Protecting your eyes from the negative effects of staring at your screen
Most of us spend a lot of time every day in front of one screen or another. But the blue light emitted by your device’s screen can actually do damage to your eyes. Thankfully there are precautionary measures you can take to limit, if not prevent, any lasting damage to your sight caused by device Read More...
Monks start brewing beer to support aging elders
Monks have been brewing beer for centuries, and a monastery in central Massachusetts is the not just the newest to take on this centuries old practice, but the only monastery outside of Europe that brews certified Trappist Ale. The clergy at St. Joseph's Abbey is growing old, the average age is 70, Read More...
In Paris you can order a romantic picnic anywhere anytime
The weather is nice outside and at the last minute you decide you want to have a picnic after work. This would usually mean a race to the store for snacks and drinks, costing valuable minutes of sunlight, or going hungry and thirsty and enjoying the time you have outside. Paris Picnic is a service Read More...