Debt-fearing Millennials are saying no to credit cards. More than six out of ten Millennials, or 63%, don’t have a single credit card, according to a Bankrate survey of 1,161 respondents. That compares to a mere 35% of Americans who are over the age of 30. A tanking economy and mounting student loan debt have... Continue Reading →

After a month and a half of investigation, Goodwill announced that 330 of its stores in 20 states were impacted by a credit card breach, in which an estimated 868,000 cards were compromised. Goodwill’s investigation revealed that malware had been installed on a third-party vendor system used by 10% of its franchised stores to process... Continue Reading →

Plants and certain animals like the fog beetle can survive in very arid regions because they’ve developed ways of absorbing minute amounts of water from the atmosphere. Learning from their example allowed us to develop fog harvesting technologies – basically giant nets that trap moisture in the foggy mist, and funnel all of the tiny... Continue Reading →

Did you know that scientists are creating cow/human hybrids, pig/human hybrids and even mouse/human hybrids? This is happening every single day in labs all over the western world, but most people have never even heard about it. So would you drink milk from a cow/human hybrid that produces milk that is almost identical to human... Continue Reading →

America is the land of equal opportunity. At least that’s what we tell ourselves. But most of know that’s never really been true, even moreso today. Many factors determine whether we advance beyond the step on the economic ladder on which we were born: Are you black or white? Were your parents married or divorced?... Continue Reading →

Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on a map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to... Continue Reading →

Next Wednesday, Sept. 10, if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net’s “Internet Slowdown,” a global day of grass-roots action. Protesters won’t actually slow the Internet down, but will place on their websites animated “Loading” graphics (which organizers call “the proverbial ‘spinning... Continue Reading →

Sensory neurons located in your fingertips perform mathematical calculations that provide us with geometric information about objects we touch, a new study has found. This exciting discovery is titillating neuroscientists because it was long believed that such computations were reserved for neurons in the brain. The work has been published in Nature Neuroscience. Touch, or... Continue Reading →

Last summer, Greenfield cycled 4,700 miles across the US on a bamboo bicycle during his Off the Grid Across America bike tour, and he's also gone a year without showering, pedaled across Iowa with no bike seat for his Stand Up for Sustainability tour, and biked from NYC to Boston using only water from leaky... Continue Reading →

Think your money's not going very far this year? It's not your imagination. According to new research by the Economic Policy Institute, real hourly wages declined for almost everybody in the U.S. workforce in the first half of 2014. Thanks, so-called recovery. Economist Elise Gould pored over data from the government’s Current Population Survey and... Continue Reading →