When Boyan Slat was 18, he planned to rid the oceans of plastic. About ten years later, Slat is 27, an inventor, and the founder of the Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that plans to remove 90% of the floating plastic in the ocean by 2040. This plan seemed incredible at first. The first plastic-catching device...
Rang-du-Fliers is a small village in France known for being close to the annual kite festival. Its grey, wind-swept surroundings have been otherwise unnoteworthy. A controversial €72 million (about £63 million) project plans to bring the Amazon rainforest to Europe. The plan is to assemble the largest domed tropical greenhouse in the world by this once unremarkable village. “This...
Diego Garijo is known for his career as a mixed martial artist. But many people may not know that he also moonlights as a drag queen called Lola. Although fighting and drag may seem like total opposites, Garijo explains that, to him, the two don’t contradict at all. “Before my first drag show, I felt...
Amazon has created an alternative method of paying at shops and restaurants. Instead of a card, the Amazon One scanner reads the palm of users’ hands. All they need to do is hover their palm over the scanner momentarily, and the payment goes through. The system also collects data like personal preferences and shopping history...
Paul Battenally and Clara Trindall love traveling. Although they are from Australia, they met in Japan, where both of them were working at the time. But they always dreamed of exploring their home country together. So they began to research vans and motorhomes, but they all looked too cramped for the tall Battenally. Instead, they...
In late September, about 80,000 female Giant South American turtles gathered on their usual nesting beaches to dig nests and lay their eggs. These beaches, along the Guaporé/Inténez River and on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, became alive with baby turtles hatching from mid-December into early January. Footage captures these tiny creatures coming out...
Purple flags fly all along the Gulf Coast, from Fort Morgan, Alabama, to Panama City, Florida. Beach officials warn residents of a species of jellyfish called pink meanies. They were initially discovered in the Gulf Coast in 2000, and scientists identified them as a new species in 2011. Pink meanies tend to drift to beaches...
In 2019, scientists discovered one giant female tortoise on the pristine Fernandina Island, an active volcano in the Galápagos Islands. The tortoise named Fernanda descends from a species scientists believed extinct for over a century. “The significance of the find is huge,” said Evelyn Jensen, co-first author of the ground-breaking publication in the journal Communications...
When you’re on a date, you can learn a lot about a person the way they treat waitstaff and other service workers. True kindness and empathy is for everyone, not just the people you want to impress. Kitty learned this the hard way when she tried to help a sick homeless man. Meanwhile, her boyfriend...
The corpse of a 70-year-old woman was found in her home two years after she passed away. The body of Marinella Beretta was sitting in a chair in her living room in Prestino in northern Italy in a “mummified state”. Beretta lived alone with no living relatives to call on her. In fact, her neighbors...
Not even a century ago, men went to work and women stayed home to care for the children, cook, and clean. As time passed, this is no longer the status quo. Many factors contributed to this, from women joining the workforce to an economy that practically requires a two-person income. However, because of these recent...
Internet food trends are often a hit or miss. What may look delicious on Instagram may not pan out in your own kitchen. But social media may introduce you to wonderful recipes and food tips that have become part of your regular routine. Yes, they may seem ridiculous with outlandish ingredients, but once you try...
