Solving the Chopstick Mystery
Okay, so you’ve cracked how to eat with chopsticks but what happens to them, after you’re done? It is a genuine environmental challenge: In China alone some 45 billion pairs of chopsticks are thrown away…
by: Michael D. Sellers
April 29, 2010
Accra alone produces more than 60 tons of plastic packaging waste a day. That adds up to 22,000 tons of plastic in one year and only 2% is recycled. Stuart A Gold of TrashyBags wants…
by: Paul Losada
August 13, 2009
“California nearing a financial meltdown,” is one of the top headlines on Google News today. It was the elephant in the room and the whole country sees it now that state Controller John Chiang says…
by: Carly Zinderman
August 13, 2009
Ryanair is notorious for charging passengers for every extra imaginable. But the low cost airline may now be adding yet another charge to its collection: a toll for the bathroom.
The Guardian reports that the…
As summer is now in full swing, many people are beginning to head outdoors and heat up the BBQ for the summer tradition of grilling. But beware of what ends up on your plate, as grilling is notoriously carcinogenic. According to the American Cancer Society, some research has found that cooking meat at high temperatures increases ...
In what could be called the recession's most ironic turn of events, New York City will be providing the homeless with luxury condominiums as free shelter. Without buyers or renters, an area of the city is about to become the section 8 housing project that even the rich will envy. According to Channel 2 CBS local ...
So chances are you may have heard about this new web engine out there called Wolfram|Alpha. It was a big buzz word on the net between March and May (the release date) when its creator, Stephen Wolfram, finally revealed it to the world. At first glance it seems like a search engine, like Google or ...