The emergence of electric vehicles has potential for impact far beyond the automotive industry. According to data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the transportation sector accounts for 14 percent of global emissions and the shift to electric vehicles would significantly reduce that number. Yet for all of the excitement and conversation, electric vehicles made... Continue Reading →

Monuments that stand as physical reminders of the ancient world and give insights into how our ancestors lived are being destroyed. In 2015, militant group ISIS reduced some of the oldest and most treasured world heritage sites to rubble. The al-Lat Lion, which stood in the Syrian city of Palmyra for around 2,000 years, was... Continue Reading →

Human immune cells in blood can be converted directly into functional neurons in the laboratory in about three weeks with the addition of just four proteins, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found. The dramatic transformation does not require the cells to first enter a state called pluripotency but instead occurs through... Continue Reading →

Across the Western world, there is a rising epidemic of depression and anxiety—one that disfigured my life for over a decade. For years now, the United Nations has been trying to warn us that these problems are continuing to spike up in part because we have, as a culture, been responding in the wrong way.... Continue Reading →

It’s simple maths. We are chopping down about 15 billion trees a year and planting about 9 billion. So there’s a net loss of 6 billion trees a year. Hand planting trees is slow and expensive. To keep pace with the tractors and bulldozers clearing vast areas of land, we need an industrial-scale solution. For... Continue Reading →

As reported in The New York Times, farms in Humphreys County, Mississippi have received over $250 million dollars in government subsidies since 1995. Ironically, this is also a county where half of its residents receive food stamps. The farm subsidies are intended to help guarantee farmers a significant portion of their income in case of... Continue Reading →

There is a crisis looming in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. GEO Group, a billion dollar for-profit prison conglomerate with a long track record of civil rights abuses, could soon take over all re-entry work for parolees in Lancaster County. Right now, many local non-profit organizations provide services to support former inmates returning to society, including assistance... Continue Reading →

Despite popular belief, the best high-school education doesn't always come from a private school. In fact, several of America's best public high schools offer top-level academics — without the five-figure tuition cost. Niche, a company that researches and compiles information on schools, recently released its 2016 ranking of the best public high schools in America,... Continue Reading →

We know the story well. For most of history, humans banded together in small tribes, the number of which was capped at around 150 members, according to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar. That statistic represents a correlation between the number of humans we can maintain meaningful relationships with—that we can remember and trust—and brain size. Anyone... Continue Reading →