Bored in Quarantine, 15-Year-old Transforms Her Bedroom Wall into 8-Foot Climbing Structure
Erin Sloan says that she hopes her homemade project will help to smash gender stereotypes in the rock climbing community.
Erin Sloan says that she hopes her homemade project will help to smash gender stereotypes in the rock climbing community.
The Baystate Health Medical Centers have launched the #CodeRocky initiative across all four of their hospitals for the duration of the pandemic.
Call it flourishing. It's a movement beyond traditional notions of corporate sustainability, demanding more than just doing less harm. The vision builds on best practices toward a higher purpose than profits. Business thought-leaders are joining together on October 15-17 to co-create these possibilities at the Third Global Forum For Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
After the oldest living veteran was the victim of identity theft, his bank made sure to step up and take care of him accordingly.
The brain can be trained to prefer healthy food over unhealthy high-calorie foods, using a diet which does not leave people hungry, suggests a study from the US.
After a debilitating motorcycle accident, former Marine John Miller, saw opportunity in the face of adversity. Crushed by the weight of his Harley after an SUV ran over him, he wondered, How could this happen? Miller's motorcycle was well lit at night from the front and back, but those lights weren't visible from the side. With the help of a veteran's group in Wisconsin, he launched Illumatek, offering a new product that could prevent accidents like this in the future.
It must have been quite a sight to see from the ground.
The tsunami that struck Indonesia in 2004 obliterated vast areas of Aceh province. But villagers there are using an innovative microcredit scheme to restore mangrove forests and other coastal ecosystems that will serve as a natural barrier against future killer waves and storms.
When placed under pressure, these organic plastic crystals could be a cheap, eco-friendly replacement for the harmful gases inside of air conditioners.
Plaque HD is the world's first toothpaste that uses color-changing properties to identify plaque-and it could also help to dramatically reduce stroke risk.
Stretched across the rooftop of a new teaching hospital 30 miles north of Port-au-Prince, a vast array of 1,800 solar panels conquers the problem of an intermittent power grid. The University Hospital produces more than 100 percent of its required energy every day, an impressive feat for a building in the middle of Haiti.
Family fishermen in Japan took delivery of a very special donation, on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out their local fishing industry. An American humanitarian group donated ten new hand-crafted boats to shrimp and seaweed fishermen in Hikado Harbor who have been out of work since the disaster.