Science

  • Which Apps to Keep?
    If you had to delete all but five apps on your phone, which would you keep and why?An example of a possible answer:Maps: Maps is an essential app for navigating unfamiliar places and getting directions. It can also be used to find nearby restaurants, stores, and other points of interest.Camera: ...
  • Top-20 Books on Permaculture
    “Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual” by Bill Mollison“The One-Straw Revolution” by Masanobu Fukuoka“The Permaculture Garden” by Graham Bell“The Resilient Farm and Homestead” by Ben Falk“The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country” by Peter Bane“The Permaculture Way” by Graham Bell“Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture” by Toby Hemenway“Permaculture: Principles ...
  • What are the top 20 most useful inventions?
    • The wheel – allows for efficient transportation of goods and people• Electricity – powers our homes, workplaces, and devices• The computer – revolutionized communication and information processing• The internet – connects people and information globally• The printing press – enables mass production of written materials• The telephone – allows ...
  • Clean Up & Customize Facebook with Free Browser Extension
    F.B. Purity Browser Extension F.B. Purity is a browser extension for Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera & Maxthon that allows you to clean up and customize Facebook. This browser extension works with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. What Does F.B. Purity Do? The F.B. Purity browser extension hides the ads, app spam ...
  • The Robot Revolution and Jobs: “Humans Need Not Apply” (video)
    Can a Robot Do Your Job? It’s hard to grasp the scale of the robot revolution that is slowly eating away at the human workforce. A video by CGP Grey, a Youtube user who makes short explanatory videos, helps put things in perspective. This 15-minute video explains automatization and how robots will replace most of our jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU Robot ...
  • OneTab Extension for Google Chrome and Firefox
    How the OneTab Extension WorksWhenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab extension icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once. When your tabs are in the OneTab list, ...
  • Court Declares Captive Orangutan Is “Non-Human Person”
    An Argentinian court has decided that a Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) named Sandra is a non-human person with rights, and will no longer be held captive in the Buenos Aires zoo where she has lived for the last 20 years. Sandra’s case was taken up in November 2013 by the ...
  • Climate Change: Why the Threat Produces Apathy, Not Action
    Many people aren’t responding to mounting evidence of the huge impacts of climate change. Neuroscience helps explain why – and the key role that businesses can play in responding rationally. Voter behavior has long held mysteries for both politicians and psychologists. Why do poor and working-class voters across the US South, ...
  • A World Without Bees
    A world without bees is unimaginable! Nearly one-third of U.S. crops – including many vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds – depend on bees for pollination. But despite the vital role that bees play, the Environmental Protection Agency continues to approve pesticides that are linked to a bee die-off of historic ...
  • GPS SmartSoles
    This is a genius design. What an idea! This is great for not only for those with dementia problems, but for children. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that your kids made it to school and safely back home again? They want to go out with friends and the battery ...

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