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Technology Revolution for the Evolution of the Quality of Elderly Care
The next 10 years are going to be exponentially revolutionary for the global community in different ways. Macros trends in internet access, driverless cars, cashless economies, shared services and better overall health care are just some of the trends that will change...
Prominent pediatrician says transgender ideology is causing widespread child abuse
The following scenario is becoming commonplace: a teenager, formerly a boy suddenly identifying as a trans girl; a girl newly identifying as a gender-fluid person; a girl leaving home for spring break and returning as a trans boy. Now, I don’t know about you, but this...
Scientists replace 80 percent of boy’s skin with epidermis grown in lab, saving his life
A 7-year-old boy with untreatable wounds on his skin has had 80 percent of his skin replaced with a genetically modified epidermis, saving his life. The boy has grown up with a life-threatening genetic disorder that has resulted in untreatable and infected wounds all...
Mind & Brain
A UK woman has an extra cone cell in her eyes and can see more colors
Most people are trichromats. Most animals are dichromats. In some rare cases some women might be a tetrachromats. Okay, I see you have lost me. I’ll teach you what I myself have just learned. We see color because of specialized nerve cells in the retina called cones,...
How long you need to do cardio to reap the benefits for your body and brain
Some years ago I was shocked when a colleague of mine complained about having to walk from her car to the office building. Since I knew where she parked her car, which was in the street right in front of the building, I asked, why? “I hate walking,” she said. Would...
If you get the chills when listening to music, you might be experiencing a “skin orgasm”
Okay, let’s just get this out of the way right now: Frisson is a scientific term for the feeling your body gets when you have chills running over your skin or you get goosebumps from a sensation related to music. Some researchers even call it "skin orgasm". You know...
Health & Psychology
Technology Revolution for the Evolution of the Quality of Elderly Care
The next 10 years are going to be exponentially revolutionary for the global community in different ways. Macros trends in internet access, driverless cars, cashless economies, shared services and better overall health care are just some of the trends that will change...
What alcohol really does to your brain and body
There is no recreational drug more widely celebrated than alcohol. And many people enjoy it—it helps us become happier, less wound up, friendlier, and before long we’re drinking another and another. Alcohol does this by performing a number of things inside of your...
8 mind-blowing benefits of intermittent fasting that the food industry doesn’t want you to know
Intermittent fasting is a term used for various diets that cycle between a period of fasting and non-fasting. For most people, this usually involves skipping breakfast each day and eating from around 12 pm to 8 pm, then fasting for 16 hours until they start eating...
Environment
Tesla tiny house goes on tour in a brilliant new marketing campaign
How do you make a sexy story out of clean energy? You humanize your solar energy brand by incorporating it into a home and taking that home on a road trip. Brilliant. After all, we can all relate to a home. Even if it is tiny. Tesla, Elon Musk’s clean energy company,...
Africa set to “leapfrog” over coal and choose renewable energy instead
Even though American leadership appears to be losing its motivation to tackle climate change, there's still a good chance the Earth can be saved. Climate activism has risen rapidly since Trump pulled out of the Paris agreement and global cooperation and market forces...
Earth’s sixth mass extinction is underway, scientists warn
How would you react if you read in the news that horses are on the endangered species list? Will you be untouched by news that all dogs will be extinct by 2025? How about cats? Take a moment to think about this. Can you imagine a world with no horses, no dogs and no...
Physics
Scientists have developed an experiment to see if the human mind is bound to the physical world
Ever since the discovery of quantum mechanics, “reality” has been hard to grasp, literally and figuratively. The laws of quantum mechanics seem to suggest that particles are neither here nor there. Particles or waves exist everywhere and nowhere at once. Only when...
Merging our brains with machines won’t stop the rise of the robots
Tesla chief executive and OpenAI founder Elon Musk suggested last week that humanity might stave off irrelevance from the rise of the machines by merging with the machines and becoming cyborgs. However, current trends in software-only artificial intelligence and deep...
Can Robots Take Over the World? A Renowned Expert Reveals the Truth
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates have all issued warnings about the increasing capabilities of artificial intelligence. Yet how real is the threat? Is it something we need to worry about in the short to medium term or something that's so far away that we...
Space
Stephen Hawking warns: Humanity may have only 600 years to leave Earth
At a conference in Beijing earlier in the week, famous physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that humans probably have about 6 centuries to leave the planet if we are to have a chance to avoid extinction, according to media reports. He declared that humans must “boldly...
Reports of a “spectacular UFO” – a giant ball of light – in the skies of Siberia
The illuminated ball of light was seen by countless residents of the Yamalo-Nenets region in Siberia, Russia, last week, prompting cries of “aliens arriving”. As freaky spherical shapes in the sky tend to make people do, there were numerous theories and pronouncements...
There’s a compelling reason scientists think we’ve never found aliens, and it suggests humans are almost extinct
It’s reasonable to expect there to be someone out there if you consider the astronomical (pun intended) numbers involved when we talk about space and the heavenly bodies hurtling through it. NASA scientists estimate that there may be tens of billions of solar systems...
Technology
Tesla tiny house goes on tour in a brilliant new marketing campaign
How do you make a sexy story out of clean energy? You humanize your solar energy brand by incorporating it into a home and taking that home on a road trip. Brilliant. After all, we can all relate to a home. Even if it is tiny. Tesla, Elon Musk’s clean energy company,...
These incredibly cute robots are helping break the isolation of homebound children
Two years ago journalist James Vincent wrote an article about being at work in the office from 3,500 miles away. Vincent lives in Britain and he needed to speak to his boss and meet colleagues in the New York office. He managed that via a telepresence. Telepresence...
World renowned adviser reveals a new plan to make sure robots are our friends
The coming participation of robots in every aspect of our lives is a confusing prospect: it’s at once exciting and threatening. Above all, it’s inevitable and there is not a job that is not threatened. And what do you to earn an income if you have to give up your job...