Sometimes, it can be difficult for children to have their own private space inside your home, especially if you have several kids sharing a room. Building a natural playhouse in the backyard is the ideal solution in such circumstances. This is where a kid can go and disconnect himself from the outside world. “This will ...
The horizontal drilling method called hydraulic fracturing helps the United States produce close to 4 billion barrels of oil per year, rocketing the U.S. to the top of oil-producing nations in the world. The highly profitable practice comes with a steep price: For every barrel of oil, oil and gas extraction also produces about seven barrels ...
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and international human rights lawyer David Matas has spent years researching and uncovering the crime of forced organ harvesting taking place in China against a group known as Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa. The practice itself is a peaceful one, teaching one to take the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance ...
There is a growing trend of people opting to dye their clothes using natural, plant-based dyes. Not only does dyeing your clothes the natural way provide natural-looking colors for the fabric, but the process also ensures that no harmful chemicals are used. While this may be a labor-intensive process, natural dyeing is highly recommended if ...
Noordin Kasoma owns a workshop in the Ugandan capital of Kampala called Boogaali where he manufactures bicycles. But what makes Kasoma’s bicycles different from the rest is that he uses bamboo as the material for the frame Bamboo bikes “Bamboo is flexible; due to that flexibility, it gives that kind of shock-absorbing property when you’re ...
Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a lighter or matches. The earliest humans likely harvested fire from natural sources, yet when our ancestors learned the skills to set them at will, they had newfound protection, a means of cooking, light to work by, and warmth at ...
The flooding from torrential rains caused by cyclones and monsoonal storms, as well as other catastrophic events, is responsible for moving huge amounts of trees to a watery grave deep under the ocean, according to Earth scientists. Their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows the first-ever evidence that trees may ...
A report released earlier this year by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden shows that the Internet accounts for more than 10 percent of global electricity use. Back in 2012, the Internet’s share of electric consumption stood at 8 percent. Gobbling up electricity “There is a strong trend to push electricity consumption onto ...
Nestled in a lush bamboo forest in a mountain valley east of Taipei City in northern Taiwan, Shi Yang Shan Fang (食養山房) is a unique restaurant famous for its relaxing ambiance, fresh local ingredients, and lack of menus. Please watch the following video of the Shi Yang Shan Fang restaurant in Taiwan. Founded by a ...
For an artist, inspiration can strike from anywhere. Jarbas Agnelli, a musician from San Paulo, Brazil, got his inspiration from an image of a few birds on wires that led to the creation of a unique piece of music. Music inspired by birds on wires “Reading the newspaper one morning, I saw this picture of ...
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