Betacup Challenge is an open design competition partly sponsored by Starbucks with a mission to reduce the waste from to-go…
Electrolux: Turning Plastic from the Ocean into Vacuum Cleaners
Talk about the right marketing at the right time. Electrolux is taking advantage of our collective awareness on the ocean…
Spotlight on a Helping Foundation: OneSight
Vinolia, South Africa – After living in virtual blindness for more than 45 years, Vinolia couldn’t contain her excitement at…
Bizarre Good News: Mozart Makes Microbes Eat Sewage Faster
It looks like Mozart has billions and billions more fans than we thought, and much smaller ones, too. Evidently, sewage-eating…
Norwegian Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack Using World of Warcraft Skills
Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he picked…
Power-Generating Soccer Ball a Bright Idea
The sOccket looks like a regular soccer ball, but a tiny electric generator hides inside. Children playing soccer for 10…
More Happiness Awaits People After 50, Study Says
Arthur Stone, a professor of psychiatry at Stony Brook University tracked the emotions of some 340,000 adults and then published…
Crime Down For 3rd Straight Year, Even During Recession
(FBI graphic) There’s been a much-observed tendency to link periods of rising economic distress with increasing crime rates. But we…
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Proud Mama Sends Strangers to College
Twenty-three years ago, a real estate agent in Oakland, California, made a pledge to a class of neighborhood first-graders: ‘Stay…
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Man Reunites with Friend Gorrilla
It’s been five years since Damian Aspinall has seen Kwibi, a lowland gorilla he helped raise in captivity before releasing…