A thoughtfully curated collection of articles on innovative solutions, brought together to inspire and inform.
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Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?
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Helsinki marks a year without traffic deaths, thanks to slower speeds and smarter streets | The Optimist Daily
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Heat pumps can help clean up factories — and save lives
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How to listen like a therapist with four ways to build deeper connection and trust | The Optimist Daily
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Dublin expands car-free zones to improve bus travel and city life | The Optimist Daily
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Deploy the space harpoon
The space harpoon is part of the RemoveDEBRIS project, a multi-organization European effort to create and test methods of reducing space…
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How a Love of Flowers Helped Charles Darwin Validate Natural Selection
Though his voyage to the Galapagos and his work with finches dominate the narrative of the famed naturalist, he was,…
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Just for fun: Tour alien worlds
Some fun multimedia from NASA, including (free) Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters, cool 360-degree visualizations, and a journey into the life…
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“YourPage” test page
A test using wordpress’s new editor “Gutenberg” on the frontend. Videos Images Embeds From… twitter youtube facebook instagram wordpress soundcloud…
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2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global…
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Listen: Is our universe a hologram?
A scientist explains one of the most mind-blowing ideas in physics, in under 5 minutes.
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Guns are the second leading killer of kids, after cars
Guns now kill twice as many kids in the U.S. as cancer does, a new study shows. Car crashes are…
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Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
A Boeing Co. flying car designed to whisk passengers over congested city streets and dodge skyscrapers completed its first test flight on…
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Will you catch the moon and Saturn before sunrise February 2?
Jupiter and Venus will be very bright and up in the east before dawn. Saturn is below them – much…
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The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades
The Vortex, a radical new way to generate wind energy, is a bladeless wind turbine that looks like a giant…