Sprout of Office: Scientists Taught Spinach Plants to Send Emails About Hazardous Materials in the Soil

Re-posted from Mental Floss, written by Ellen Gutoskey While it’s unlikely that your email inbox would contain a message sent by spinach, it’s not impossible. In late 2016, engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study [PDF] in the journal Nature Materials detailing how they taught spinach plants to transmit automatic emails. The news recently re-circulated,… Read More Sprout of Office: Scientists Taught Spinach Plants to Send Emails About Hazardous Materials in the Soil

4 Simple Exercises to Strengthen your Attention and Reduce Distractibility

Reposted in its entirety from Ideas.Ted.com, June 8, 2018, by Rebekah Barnett Mengxin Li Our attention gets hijacked by everything from the stress in our lives to the ding of our phones. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha shows how we can cultivate the ability to focus on what really matters. “I think, therefore I am distracted.” If Descartes… Read More 4 Simple Exercises to Strengthen your Attention and Reduce Distractibility

Sharing Ideas And the Entrepreneurial Mindset

Updated and re-posted, 01/27/2021 …”Entrepreneurs, for the most part, want to help other entrepreneurs. They are smart and think like you. What better way to challenge your thinking than to have another smart person think about your ideas with you?” In Kyle Garman’s brilliant book, The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Preparing Our Next Generation For The Future… Read More Sharing Ideas And the Entrepreneurial Mindset

How Urban Farms Support the Healthy Living Movement – Tower Garden, a Molecule Store partner

A full 90 percent of the U.S. labor force worked on a farm in 1790.1 By 1860, that figure shrank to 58 percent. In 1940, it dropped to 18 percent. And in 1990, less than three percent of workers helped produce our nation’s food. As our number of farmers decreased, we witnessed an increase in the consumption… Read More How Urban Farms Support the Healthy Living Movement – Tower Garden, a Molecule Store partner

The World’s First 3D-Printed Village by Yves Béhar

Re-posted from Dwell, by Lucy Wang, May 9, 2019 The World’s first 3D-Printed village coming to Latin America in the summer of 2019 is a project by Yves Béhar. The walls of each home can be printed in just 24 hours with nearly zero waste. Acclaimed designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject, Austin–based construction technologies company ICON, and… Read More The World’s First 3D-Printed Village by Yves Béhar