Education
Great minds lead to great solutions. Our education section features solutions and innovations directed at strengthening educational systems around the world.
Starting the school year off with school supplies for all
Starting today in many communities, school is back in session! For many around the world though, the simplest things, like pencils, notepads, books, and erasers are beyond reach. This nonprofit is doing something that makes perfect sense: donating used school supplies to teachers in need. While Read More...
Why you should reread the classics you read back in high school
Too often, the books that you’re required to read in high school English don’t feel especially relevant. Maybe it’s the way they got taught to you, or the fact that many of them were written so long ago, or maybe you just weren’t in the right headspace to try to figure out what Darl Read More...
A major university just banned beef products from its campus
Goldsmiths, a major University in London, just made a colossal statement after banning the sale of beef in campus food outlets in order to tackle the climate emergency. Under the new ban, beef products will no longer be available in the institution’s cafes and shops when the academic year begins Read More...
Make your home a greener place with this terrarium table
If you want to add more greenery to your home but don’t necessarily have space, we have the perfect solution for you: BloomingTables, which has a new design that serves as both a table and planter. It’s somewhat difficult to explain this new design, but basically, it’s a terrarium that you Read More...
People can get a free stay on this Swedish island to work on their creative ideas
Have you ever dreamed of escaping to an island and throwing yourself into a creative project, uninterrupted and undisturbed by the outside world? Well, your dream could very well come true, thanks to a Swedish man named Fredrik Haren. Haren is the owner of Ideas Island, a 7,000 square meter Read More...
“To Infinity and Beyond” - The Power of Imagination
Science Fiction, Otherworldly Aspirations & Innovative Teamwork By Kristy Jansen July 20, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first small step on another world, and humanity’s symbolic “giant leap” into the future. In the intervening decades, we have learned how to Read More...
Low-income students to get free education at University of Texas-Austin in 2020
Beyond student debts, there’s a massive problem with charging university students up to $65,000 for a year’s worth of college education: by doing so, you exclude talented students from the lower end of the economic spectrum. And while the US is still a long, long distance away from matching the Read More...
Scientists are fighting to liberate the world’s academic research from paywalls
Science has amassed so much valuable knowledge that humanity can use, and yet, a huge chunk of that knowledge is owned by a few corporations who keep it behind paywalls. One of those corporations is Elsevier, which owns around 3,000 academic journals and withholds some 18 percent of all the Read More...
Check out photos from the recent sunset solar eclipse
A solar eclipse happens once in a blue moon. Oh wait, that’s not right. Let’s be more specific: solar eclipses take place approximately every 18 months somewhere on Earth, although they only recur in any given place once every 360 to 410 years. The last solar eclipse happened just last week, Read More...
Doctors in Montreal are prescribing patients with a visit to a fine arts museum
They say art has the power to heal, and in Montreal, doctors are taking this idea very literally. Through a partnership with The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), doctors in Montreal are now able to prescribe patients with a visit to the fine arts museum. The partnership provides doctors with an Read More...