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Daniel Kish has no eyes yet he can see the world around him using sound, much like a dolphin or bat, and he’s teaching us all to redefine what seems impossible.

Image: Little boy holding tooth with a big smile now missing front tooth

9 minutes

[ Science ]

Teeth: the Most Underrated Marvel of Nature?

An insane process took place inside of your skull before you even had a brain. Let’s take a look at these underrated wonders of the human body growing right out of your face!

Image: a boy and his seizure response dog train together

11 minutes

[ Culture ]

Here’s How Seizure Detecting Dogs are Changing People’s Lives

Can dogs really be life-savers? Meet the dogs that are helping their owners detect seizures up to 45 minutes before they occur! It’s a fascinating story. These pups are making life safer and easier for people who suffer from seizures.

Image: Man walking with back faced to us, down a paved road between thick rows of trees growing along the sides

25 minutes

[ Nature ]

The Extinction of Silence and the Man Who is Saving It

Modern noises find us almost everywhere we go, and it’s having an impact on our health! But Gordon Hempton is leading the charge to protect and preserve the places we have left. (Make sure you have your headphones when you pop into this)

Image: two children in the ocean on a surfboard being held in place by a coach who sports a #SurfTherapy graphic on their shirt

35 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

The Unexpected Ways Surfing is Helping Youth Heal

Life is tough, but it’s a whole lot easier when we’re around people who share similar experiences in a no pressure environment. Waves for Change is one of the organizations out there harnessing the power of sport and play to create environments where children are able to open up and heal!

15 minutes

Giving Our Skin Superpowers with Tattoo Nanotechnology

You’ve probably heard of wearable technology, but what if your own skin could be used as a form of technology? What if it could tell you things about your health and wellness you didn’t have access to before? Nanoscience is teaming up with an unexpected artform to create an innovation that could revolutionize our collective future!

28 minutes

[ Science ]

Is it the Age of the Bacteriophage?

A tiny, powerful hero in the face of antibiotic resistance is living all around us. Meet the bacteriophage: bacteria’s natural sworn enemy and the deadliest organism on the planet that, amazingly, doesn’t harm us at all.

Image: Microscopic image of M. tuberculosis: a deadly pathogen

20 minutes

[ Science ]

Combing Caves for a Cure to Deadly Bacterial Infections

We’ve been able to protect ourselves from most bacterial infections for decades now, but that’s changing. Deadly bacteria are catching onto our tactics and antibiotic resistance is on the rise. Here’s how some scientists are working to stay one step ahead of this problem by exploring the depths of caves and the bacteria that call them home!

26 minutes

Are Video Games Bad for You, Really?

On the quest to find out the effect that video games have on the brain, researchers may have stumbled into something that could change the nature of medicine. We’re on the verge of prescribing video games, and these awesome creators walk us through it!

9 minutes

The Toilet is Saving Our Lives!

Did you know that this innovation stops deadly diseases from finding you with every flush? Billions of people still don’t have access to one. So we’d like to take a moment to celebrate the humble toilet and see how some truly amazing thought leaders are bringing them to everyone around the globe!

Image: Woman getting screened for malaria

7 minutes

Detecting Malaria with Magnets

Detecting malaria can sometimes be difficult in the most rural places, but engineers have come up with a clever way to detect it with magnets! Here’s how this life-saving innovation works!

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17 minutes

Every Brain is Beautiful: The Autism Advantage

What if we let disabilities take a back seat and we focused on the abilities that might look like superpowers in the right setting? Let’s take a look at some examples.

Image: man wearing headphones on a busy city street

13 minutes

[ Science ]

What’s Up With All This Noise?

We’re living in a loud world, and most of us are contributing to the noise pollution in some way. Although it’s rather grim to mourn our hearing, there’s still hope! Let’s learn more.

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18 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

Janine Shepherd: The Flight of an Unstoppable Spirit

A world of possibilities is waiting for us if we lighten our load! Here is an amazing person to be our guide.

15 minutes

[ Thought Leaders ]

Micro-Preemie Turns 21: A Success Story for Everyone!

When life gets difficult there’s always something we can learn and use for the rest of our lives. 21 years ago, Dr. Lynda (EWC’s founder) gave birth to a 1 pound baby when she was just into the 5th month of her pregnancy. She picked up a few pearls of wisdom in the years that followed—here are 12.

Image: Magnification of normal human gastric mucosa, also known as the inner most layer of the stomach. Dyed.

6 minutes

[ Health ]

Mucus Does A Lot More Than Just Leak From Your Nose

We’re thinking it’s about time we all give this goop a little more credit for being the amazing innovation it really is!

Image: Colorful varieties of heirloom corn laid out next to each other

8 minutes

Is Tradition the Secret Ingredient to Great Food?

If you want to have a really, really good tortilla, you’re going to need the best corn. Masienda is a company not only supporting Mexico’s small heirloom corn farmers but bringing the practices that enhance the nutritional powers of the grain back into the market.

Image: Chef carefully puts the final touches on a bug inspired dish

15 minutes

Should We All Be Eating Insects?

We know it’s a reach, but the best innovations always are! Insect protein takes fewer resources to produce, has all of the amino acids we need, and can be pretty tasty. Are bugs the food of the future? Let’s risk knowing more…

8 minutes

How Virtual Reality is Changing Healthcare

This device out of Stanford is saving lives by helping both families and medical experts understand what’s happening with Congenital Heart Defects.

Image: Two children eating ice cream and a Popsicle. One wanting the other's treat.

30 minutes

[ Health ]

Down the Hatch! But Now What?

This is an article for the fearlessly curious, the kind of person who when hearing the colon referred to as “charming” must investigate! (There’s also our second brains and a team of good bacteria to discover!)

7 minutes

[ Food ]

An Excuse to Not Eat Your Vegetables?

By Abigayle Fugere

The tastes we’ve come to enjoy from various fruits and vegetables may stem from these plants trying to kill us. Let’s find out who the culprits are, and if salads are truly good for our health or if we’ve all just been blindly following instructions on what to eat.

6 minutes

You Should Really Thank the Fruit Flies

Would you believe that your genes are super similar to a fruit fly’s? They’ve been helping us discover our own bodies for years, here’s how…

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15 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

When You (Really) Can’t Smell the Roses

Your sense of smell is one of the most powerful and elusive of all the senses. But how does it even work? And what is it like when it doesn’t?

Image: Slender spartan sculpture of a woman standing a remote shallow water

15 minutes

Omniprocessor: Tap Water from Our Toilets?

By Bob Gorman

Have you heard about a brilliant innovation – the Omniprocessor – that may change the lives of billions of people, in fact all of us eventually? This is “the challenge of progress” at it’s messy best!

7 minutes

[ Education ]

How Much Do We Know About Sleep?

We all know what it looks like when we are without sleep, but why is sleep so important to us? It turns out, our brains are doing some extraordinary things while we sleep! See what you think. (And learn what you “think” while you are sleeping!)

9 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

Retrain Your Brain: Mindfulness

By Bethany Leduc

Sometimes our own thoughts can lead us into a deep, dark, and endless pit. Thankfully, there just so happens to be an easily learned way to lighten it up a bit! Today we learn about Mindfulness and all it can do to help us dig our way out.

7 minutes

Strides Towards Combating the Deadliest Organism on the Planet

Dare we propose that it could be possible that humans and mosquitos can actually become… friends? Here’s a little insight that could point the way to beating one of the most deadly and pervasive diseases in the world!

4 minutes

[ Business ]

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