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    Dutch student designs a mobile system to encourage recycling in Nepal

    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pim van Baarsen travelled to Nepal to study domestic waste disposal in the capital city, Kathmandu. He found that waste disposal was inefficient and damaging to the environment– waste is burnt, dumped and only a small ...
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    What If You Could Get Clean Without Soap—Using Just Your Microbiome?

    Apply beneficial bacteria to your skin, rather than scrub them off. Would you spray yourself with a live bacteria solution if it meant you could use less soap, deodorant, and face cream? Despite how unappetizing “live bacteria solution” sounds, plenty ...
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    Plastic-eating worms may offer solution to mounting waste

    Consider the plastic foam cup. Every year, Americans throw away 2.5 billion of them. And yet, that waste is just a fraction of the 33 million tons of plastic Americans discard every year. Less than 10 percent of that total ...
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    Yogi-Athlete Workouts

    ‘Joga’ yoga by Jana Webb is designed to tailor movements of the practice to jocks. While many styles of yoga are designed to have students hold poses, this can cause overstretching in the muscles that results in an imbalance of ...
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    Defining Wellness

    What is the definition of wellness? More than ever before, we hear this word in the news, on billboards, in conversation and even at work. Interestingly, there is no universally-accepted definition of wellness. There is, however, a set of common ...
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    Energy-Boosting Eyewear

    These Spectacles Improve Sleep and Reduce Jet Lag with Blue Light Therapy These smart glasses are a wearable blue light therapy device designed by AYO to improve sleep, boost energy and reduce jet lag. The extremely thin pair of spectacles ...
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    A woman has been awarded compensation for being “allergic to Wi-Fi”

    A 39-year-old French woman named Martine Richard has won a court case that means that government will need to pay her roughly US$900 a month in disability allowance for at least three years, because of the discomfort caused by her alleged ...
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    Smart Wireless Pill Bottles

    Improve and Track Adherence in Real-Time. AdhereTech smart wireless pill bottles are currently being used by patients in pharmaceutical and research engagements. These bottles collect and send all adherence data in real-time. The system automatically analyzes this information and populates ...
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    Molly Crockett: “The Neuroscience of Moral Decision Making”

    Imagine we could develop a precise drug that amplifies people’s aversion to harming others; on this drug you won’t hurt a fly, everyone taking it becomes like Buddhist monks. Who should take this drug? Only convicted criminals—people who have committed ...