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Even non-threatening activities like hiking are changing creatures’ sleep cycles. Source: Urban Animals Are Becoming Nocturnal – The Atlantic
There is nowhere in the U.S. where a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 could afford a two-bedroom rental apartment working 40 hours per week, according to a study released Wednesday from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In fact, workers need to make on average of $22.10 per hour to…
HandyShower is an innovative 3-in-1 personal hygiene system that serves as a faucet, a bidet or a shower. In other words, your very own portable bathroom. Source: HandyShower – Your very own portable bathroom.
Hotel Business | Posts Source: Airbnb Partners with City of San Jose to House Potential Disaster Victims | Hotel Business
This year’s Catholic course in exorcism suggest the answer might be…yes? Source: Can You Get An Exorcism From a Catholic Priest Over the Phone?
A study decades in the making shows victims may have absorbed double a deadly dose. Source: New Study Shows Full Extent of Radiation Damage to Hiroshima Victims
Photographers use their equipment as a means of showing the world to others through their eyes. But those snapping the pictures may be altering their own memory of the subject, according to a new study. Julia Soares and Benjamin Storm, two researchers from the University of California, documented their findings in the most recent issue…
Overall leisure time has increased by over an hour per day in the past ten years. How are we spending these extra 365 hours per year? Not playing with our kids, working on passion projects, exercising, or any other wholesome activity you may have guessed — we’re spending it in front of screens. In 2007,…
Telephone culture is disappearing. Source: Why Doesn’t Anyone Answer the Phone Anymore? – The Atlantic
“I felt as though I were communing directly with a plant for the first time.” Source: Michael Pollan on What It’s Like to Trip on Mushrooms – The Atlantic
Call it the burger lover’s dilemma: we know deep down that it’s awful for the planet, but the beef patty tastes so damn good. Source: Should We Have a Meat Tax? – MIT Technology Review
Wind energy is booming, making maintenance work on turbines one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US. Source: Job of the future: Wind farmer – MIT Technology Review
What makes people happy? A huge database is making it possible to discern the answer at last. Source: 100,000 happy moments – MIT Technology Review
Google Maps and Airbnb both announced new services this week that aim to make life easier for people with mobility challenges. Source: Big tech firms are helping disabled people better navigate the real world – MIT Technology Review
The woman organizing our messy digital lives to survive us. Source: Job of the future: Embalming your online persona – MIT Technology Review
In 2016, there were over 96,000 cases of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases reported to the CDC, a huge jump after more than a decade of increasing numbers. Source: CDC: Tick and mosquitoborne diseases like Lyme tripled in the US in just 13 years — Quartz
English craftsmen from House Box in Somerset are acquiring horse boxes and converting them into luxury mobile home accommodation Source: Craftsmen are converting horse boxes into luxury mobile homes
With the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork. Source: In Pod-Based Community Living, Rent Is Cheap, But Sex Is Banned – Motherboard
Do you dare co-sleep in your co-working space? Source: PodShare is not a cult, but it is weird | The Daily Dot
America’s most popular piece of exercise equipment has dark origins. Source: Treadmills were meant to be atonement machines — Quartzy
Music fans and meditators know that feeling connected to ourselves feels great. We can train our brains to feel that good without music. Source: Neuroscience shows how dance music and meditation have similar effects — Quartzy
A review of nearly 15 million words from CSR reports of Gazprom, Exxon, BP, Sinopec, Norsk, and others. Source: Corporate social responsibility reports show oil companies becoming passive about climate change, say linguists — Quartz
Klein, a new company led by designer Soren Rose, aims to sell affordable cabins and guest houses by big-name designers. Source: This startup wants to disrupt vacation homeownership
Anthropologist David Graeber’s new book accuses the global economy of churning out meaningless jobs that are killing the human spirit. Source: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Review – Bloomberg
Can the buzzy low-carb, high-fat diet really help with Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and memory loss? Source: Can the Keto Diet Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, or Other Brain Conditions?
Living outside changes you. When environmental illness left me too sick to stay in my high-rise, I turned to nature to heal Source: Environmental illness made me too sick to live inside | Aeon Essays
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