Miscellaneous
Ride-sharing is good for the economy
If you haven’t tried Uber or Lyft, you really should. Drivers are nice, the service is quick, and unlike a taxi, everything from hailing to tipping is done easily through your phone. While taxi unions are crying foul at regulators for slashing fares and upping driver numbers, economists want to Read More...
Q&A with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
As a Tibetan Buddhist Sakyon Mipham Rinpoche leads the Shambhala: a worldwide network of meditation and retreat-centres. Shambhala-teaching is based on the principle that everybody is born with an enormous amount of goodness. His name, Sakyong, means ‘king’ or ‘protector of earth’. Rinpoche Read More...
EMDR spells healing
If you’ve experienced trauma that continues to affect your life, you’ll want to know about eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), which is making headlines for healing memories of abuse that have proved resistant to standard therapy. EMDR is an eight-stage treatment in which the Read More...
Solar panel ‘gigafactory’ breaks ground in upstate New York
A gigantic solar panel factory is being built in upstate New York, creating thousands of jobs. The factory called SolarCity will create nearly 1,500 manufacturing jobs, and will employ over 2,000 additional workers in New York to provide solar services in the coming years. SolarCity will cost Read More...
App that lets deaf people make phone calls
A new app called RogerVoice allows those hard of hearing to read what people are saying on a phone call instead of trying to hear the other person’s voice. They can then text their responses into RogerVoice instead of speaking it. What they text is then spoken to the person on the other end of Read More...
Constant connections are ending absence
Absence is ending—but don’t worry, it’s not a bad thing. That’s what Michael Harris explains in his most recent book The End of Absence, published by Penguin Random House. What is absence exactly? In short it’s the time you used to have to be alone with your thoughts that is now taken up Read More...
Ode to Kathryn DiMaria
Sixteen-year-old Kathryn DiMaria prefers motor oil and old jeans to lipgloss and high heels. For the last four years DiMaria has been working on an old car, one she’s remodeling and fixing to her own desires. Her own Pontiac Fiero is now almost done. DiMaria came up with the idea of buying car Read More...
3-D printed electric car shows future of manufacturing
The first 3-D printed electric car took around 44 hours to complete printing, two days to assemble, and is comprised of just 40 pats. Powered by a Renault Twizy drivetrain the electric car, called Strati, is capable of doing 40mph and is made of 15% carbon-reinforced ABS thermoplastic. You might Read More...
Dancing brings Israelis and Palestinians together
It’s challenging to get 10 and 11-year-old children interested in ballroom dancing. It’s even more difficult—perhaps near impossible—when those children are Jewish and Palestinian Israeli citizens. In 2013 Pierre Dulaine, world champion ballroom dancer now turned dance instructor, traveled Read More...
Job creation reduces public health spending
Everyday our world becomes more globalized. Seemingly unconnected parts of the world, the economy, and society are all weaved together in unimaginable ways. One thing you might be surprised to learn is the intrinsic connection between unemployment and public health. European job creation programs Read More...