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15 minutes
[ Innovation ]
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.
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
[ Innovation ]
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
[ Innovation ]
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!
7 minutes
[ Innovation ]
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!
17 minutes
[ Innovation ]
Every Brain is Beautiful: The Autism Advantage
By Dr. Lynda
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.
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.
18 minutes
[ Happiness & Hope ]
Janine Shepherd: The Flight of an Unstoppable Spirit
By Dr. Lynda
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!
By Dr. Lynda
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.
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!
8 minutes
[ Business ]
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.
15 minutes
[ Animals ]
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
[ Health ]
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.
30 minutes
[ Health ]
Down the Hatch! But Now What?
By Dr. Lynda
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?
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
[ Animals ]
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…
15 minutes
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?
15 minutes
[ Conservation & Sustainability ]
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
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
[ Animals ]
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 ]
Hack Your Way to a Better Day!
Can we hack our biological clock to be more productive, sleep better, and be healthier? There’s no need to jump on the next big health craze. To get started, all we need is some simple science!
17 minutes
CRISPR: Start at Any Level of Understanding!
By Dr. Lynda
What do “glow in the dark” mice have to do with the cure for cancer or genetic defects? Turns out, they are pointing us in amazing directions. Here’s a new technology that may change everything for all of us!
15 minutes
[ Animals ]
The Last Hallucinogenic Honey Hunters of Nepal
What could come from documenting some of the most remarkable human traditions? Today we head to breathtaking heights on the steep cliffs of Nepal and have the privilege of looking behind the scenes of what’s said to be the last traditional hallucinogenic honey harvest. You won’t want to miss this!
14 minutes
[ Health ]
Helping the Blind See With Their Tongues
Have you heard of the device that uses the tongue to transmit visual information to the brain? Today, we’ll take a look at the lives of Andy and Erik to see the potential in this amazing innovation!
7 minutes
[ Art ]
The Surprising World of Color
How much do we know about these various wavelengths of light that are constantly bouncing off the surfaces around us?
14 minutes
[ Culture ]
How Can We All Find the Runner’s Fuel
What ignites someones desire to run 100 miles? Turns out they are running on a kind of fuel we all have access to and it’s a really great recipe!
5 minutes
[ Art ]
Finding Flow: Art & Mountain Biking
Artist, activist and adventurer, Sarah Uhl, aids us in discovering our environments in the name of finding our flow in life!
