More than a year into its journey, the Solar Impulse 2 completed the final leg of its global trek, taking off from Cairo and landing in Abu Dhabi where its historic journey first began. The solar powered plane has already completed the most challenging parts of its voyage but as Engadget points out, but these final…
The first Saturday night of every month, Infinite Flow meets in a small and otherwise unremarkable dance studio in the Valley just outside Los Angeles for its community dance event. In each session, one of the outside participants is paired with a regular. Participants spend a few minutes socializing and learning a few basic dance…
While crowd-sourced funding, led by Kickstarter, takes over social media with requests to donate money to restaurants, inventors, and even medical bills, Nashi Orchards and similar companies aren’t asking their neighbors for money. They just want the fruit from nearby trees. In a move that is the exact opposite of the “single varietal” and “estate-grown”…
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As if there was any doubt, trying to profit off of the worst terrorist attack in American history is not a good idea. The latest example comes to us from Walmart, with a 9/11 display that gets everything wrong. One of the megastore’s outlets in Florida somehow thought it would be a good idea to…
According to a new study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, avid readers tend to live longer than those who pass on the written word altogether. After surveying 3,635 people aged 60 and up about their health, Yale University School of Public Health researchers discovered that the questions about reading habits provided some surprising…
Here’s some free life advice: never try to kidnap someone. Not only is it a terrible thing on its own but you might end up like this guy who followed his would-be victim into a karate dojo and cut his butt handed to him. Head instructor Randall Ephraim said that when he first spotted the…
On Friday, the Paris Agreement officially enters into force, which is the United Nations’ way of saying that the landmark international climate deal is officially in the books. But now, as envoys from around the world head to Morocco for the next round of annual U.N. climate talks, the hard work begins. If you’re confused,…
In what may be the most dramatic moment yet in Donald Trump’s presidency, the entire political world was caught off guard when it was abruptly announced on Tuesday that Trump had fired embattled FBI Director James Comey. The news was first shared by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and then confirmed by the White…
Microsoft co-founder and global philanthropist Bill Gates revealed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest $1.7 billion in American schools over the next five years. Gates announced the funding Oct. 19, while delivering the keynote address in Cleveland at the Council of the Great City Schools conference, one of the country’s largest gatherings of urban…