VIA “themindunleashed.org” The Mind Unleashed Doubt a crow’s intelligence? You won’t after seeing this sneak peek for a new “Inside the Animal Mind” BBC special.. There has long been speculation about the intelligence of animals, and birds in-particular. Birds have demonstrated an ability for advanced strategy for things like feeding, nest-building and scavenging. This, however, […]
VIA The Atlantic by James Bennet In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl. He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide […]
VIA True Activist by Adam Dearstine The wait is over! Tesla announced a home battery and utility-scale battery that will power future homes. We had gotten rumor of this new battery back in February when Elon Musk discussed it during an earnings call, but no additional details were made available at that time. Tesla announced last […]
VIA True Activist by John Vibes A new company is hoping to reverse deforestation by using drones to plant trees. The company, BioCarbon Engineering, plans to disperse seedlings using drones, which could plant up to one billion trees per year. “We are going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation,” says Lauren Fletcher, […]
VIA Take Part by Taylor Hill As we set off for our destination off the Southern California coast, Captain Rex Levi weaves Mr. Barker’s LegaSea, a 55-foot Chris Craft yacht, between the massive cargo ships plying Los Angeles Harbor. The dockworkers’ strike of the past winter is over but still reverberates at sea as the behemoths […]
VIA Earth We Are One If there’s anything you read – or share – let this be it. The content of this article has potential to radically shift the world in a variety of positive ways. And as Monsanto would love for this article to not go viral, all we can ask is that you […]
VIA International Business Times by Ewan Palmer German car manufacturer Audi says it has created the “fuel of the future” made solely from water, carbon dioxide and renewable sources. The synthetic “e-diesel” was made following a commissioning phase of just four months at a plant in Dresden, Germany. Unlike regular diesel, the clear fuel does […]
VIA The Spirit Science by Steven Bancarz In a national park in Keyna, near Mount Kilimanjaro, an 8 month old elephant calf fell into a man-made well with about a foot of water inside of it. The poor baby elephant was too small to crawl out of it, leaving her and her mother in a frantic […]
VIA The Mind Unleashed This settles the debate over organic foods. Are organic foods really healthier than non-organic foods? Researchers from Newcastle University in England have reviewed and conducted meta-analysis on 343 peer-reviewed scientific studies in an effort to find out if organic foods contained greater nutritional value than conventional foods. The results will probably shock some, […]
VIA The Spirit Science by Kasim Khan Did you know that you can grow into a tree after you die? Bios Urn is a funerary urn made from biodegradable materials that will turn you into a tree after you die. Inside the urn there is a pine seed, which can be replaced by any other seed or plant, […]
