How Urban Farms Support the Healthy Living Movement
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 […]
Tapping the collective power of positivity
One can escape the bad weather, a bad menu, a bad styling, but certainly not bad news. They’re everywhere, peering through the unexpected folds of a Facebook timeline, a Twitter trend list, a sentimental Instagram post, or a column in a newspaper picked up for a play at the crossword. They’re carried through word of […]
Nanotechnology In Medicine
Imagine this scene in a sci-fi movie: robots have been sent to identify and eliminate the antagonists. These robots have been programmed to focus on the enemy and cause no harm to the rest of the characters in the cast. The algorithm programmed within their system is structured to pick up the enemy’s unique distinguishing […]
How To Set Up A Home Office You Can Actually Work In
Nowadays, thanks to the pandemic and the rise of virtual meeting technology, more people than ever are working from home. If you’re one of those people but you’re struggling to stay focused and complete your tasks on time, you might be suffering from the lack of a functional home office. In this article, we’ll tell […]
TIMBUR: A Digital Fabrication Company That Pioneered CNC Manufacturing For Interior Design
Whatever architectural or artistic dream you have for your business or home decor, Timbur can make it become a reality, layer by layer. Timbur is a digital fabrication company based out of NYC that changed the game in interior and exterior design when they were founded in 2009. They are a digital fabrication company, and they […]
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, […]
Electric Cars: The Tech That’s Changing The Automobile Industry
The automobile sector has undergone a rapid evolution with the advent of electric cars. This shift can be owed partly to the vital need to preserve the environment and partly to the advancement in technology. Electric cars have revolutionized the world of transportation. While Tesla became a household name with respect to electric cars, more […]
Growing in 2021: How to Make This Year Count
Remember such a time last year? What did you foresee in the year ahead? What were your resolutions for the year? Chances are, your expectations for 2020 weren’t wholesomely met. Now that we’re all yet to adapt to our ‘new normal,’ this year is the ideal time to just reflect on yourself and be the […]
The Innovation of Telemedicine in Health Care
We live in a digital era where technology seems to be in charge of every aspect of our lives. Every sector is increasingly becoming dependent on technology for efficiency and effective smooth running of activities. In the health care sector, modern-age technology promises a great deal of improvement as far as quality (particularly health care […]
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 […]
The Redemption of the Recycled
Making miracles out of milk jugs: Loll Designs There is a regular need for milk—a staple source of calcium—but for milk jugs, not so much. When the contents are exhausted, these plastic containers lie around, stacked together like bulky bricks, often a constant source for comical mishaps. Not everyone can DIY their way into discarding […]
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 […]
Why 3D Printing Is Kicking Off The 4th Industrial Revolution
When you think of 3D printing, you probably think of Makerspaces and clubs where people use small 3D printers for personal projects, like knick-knacks and figurines. We’re used to thinking of it as a hobby, not something that affects our everyday lives and even changes the world. The truth is, though, 3D printing is already […]
Precision Medicine as the Future of Medicine: Benefits and Challenges
Precision medicine, a recently developed technique to diagnose, treat, prevent, and cure diseases, considers the individual’s unique genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors when designing therapeutic interventions. This new development promises a lot of benefits to both patients and healthcare practitioners. However, it also brings to the fore various challenges in healthcare practice and some new […]
The Future of Work
The year is 1999. For the sake of creativity, aerial coverage is needed in the making of a film. The crew and the cast are all set. The cameraman, ready with his tools, boards the helicopter and signals the pilot when ready. Upon signaling, the pilot takes off and they carefully hover around the scene […]
Three artists explore their creative liberties in ‘Trapped in a Vortex’
In a world that feels trapped in the middle of a pandemic, art becomes freedom—at least to artists Rita Bard, Cheri Ibes, and RJ Ward, who are set to astound with Trapped in a Vortex. The exhibit was arranged to be shown earlier this year at Molecule Design in Santa Fe, NM, but is rescheduled […]
The Upside of Downsizing: Understanding the Tiny House Movement
In 2003, Alchemy Architects built the Arado weeHouse, a 336 sq ft minimalist cabin with rustic panels and floor-to-ceiling windows. Instead of being built on-site, the small architecture was pre-fabricated by Geoffrey C. Warner in-factory before it was transported via truck and assembled on a small slope. It stood prominently on two legs, overlooking the […]
Bamboo – A Decade of Breakthroughs
It’s a renowned landscaping favorite: tall, slender poles shoot up in the sky with a cluster of thin, blade-like leaves that sway in the wind. As an indoor plant, bamboo requires little upkeep, with no to minimal fertilizer and water. In fact, this perennial plant can flourish on its own, independently sowing its culms that […]
Design for the departed: An interview with Parting Stone’s Justin Crowe
For a long time, cremation has been considered as a taboo for the religious, a choice not many would take. In the 1980s, the cremation rate was just below 10%, but over the last few years, the US has seen it slowly taking over traditional burial. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, cremations account for 50.2% […]
On Spotlight: Gus* x LUUM, and Modernizing Memphis
Design has always been a dialogue. One would find it in the maker’s choice of materials, the symmetry of its lines, the beauty of its aesthetics, and the way it functions for its end-users. This may not necessarily be traditional. At some point, a good design is meant to break out from the norm, to […]