Computer scientists and archeologists are working together to solve this ancient puzzle.
When we sit down to solve a jigsaw puzzle, there’s always one thing we take for granted: the picture on the box. Without that point of reference, we’d be pulling our hair out, trying and failing to rebuild a jumbled pile of miscellaneous pieces.
A rapidly warming planet makes it imperative to consider Indigenous housing and climate change together.
Remote Indigenous communities in Australia will experience the impacts of climate change disproportionately to the rest of the country.
A Boston startup called SOS is making machines that dole out tampons and other products in public restrooms, no quarters required.
People who menstruate know the feeling all too well. They’re toiling away at the office or passing through a train station when Aunt Flo comes unannounced. But the vending machine in the restroom—if there even is one—is empty, or out of order, or downright unusable because it’s 2021, and who on earth carries coins?
Air travel lacks equality for people with disabilities. Thoughtful design can fix that.
In 1986, Congress passed the Air Carriers Access Act. It was a landmark piece of legislation that guaranteed air carriers couldn’t discriminate against people with disabilities. It’s why airlines can’t limit the number of disabled passengers on a flight, and why aircraft are designed with armrests that go up and down.
A structural element used widely in Japan, but less common in the U.S., prevents the building from shaking, even if the earth below it moves.
As the largest hospital in California and one of its comprehensively equipped Level 1 trauma centers, Loma Linda University Medical Center‘s recent campus redesign required that the new hospital have some very special precautions built in.
In the future, all athletes may wear neck bands.
There will never be a concussion-proof helmet. While helmets are good at protecting the skull from fracturing, they don’t address the real cause of concussions: When your head suddenly stops from a hit, your brain—which is suspended in liquid—keeps moving and strikes the inside of your skull.
But they still won’t be biodegradable, pointing to the complexities of developing products that are truly gentle on the environment.
People around the world have swapped their jeans and khakis for comfy leggings and joggers—but activewear, which is largely made from petroleum-based materials like nylon and polyester, damages the planet. It does not biodegrade, but rather breaks into tiny fragments that end up in oceans and the food chain. And the process of extracting oil and manufacturing these fibers spews greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fueling climate change.
The real problem of these Olympic games isn’t representation, but the fact that people in Japan don’t want them to happen.
In the weeks leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the BBC premiered its trailer for the games – an extravagant, 60-second romp through the recent imagery of Japan as a cute, colorful, anime and manga-inspired wonderland.
An Amazon warehouse exposé in the UK underscores a larger problem with how goods are treated as disposable.
A recent undercover investigation in an Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland, reported the disposal of more than 130,000 “new or lightly used” objects in a single week in just that one location. Public outrage was clear. Questions were asked about how Amazon could be so wasteful and why weren’t the usable objects sent to those in need?
Rethinking processes and redesigning spaces won’t just prepare healthcare workers for another crisis. It will prioritize their mental and physical health.
Being asked to go to work when nearly everyone else was told to stay home. Seeing people healthy one day and clinging to life the next. Holding patients’ hands. Calling their family members. Stripping off our clothes before walking into the house and collapsing after another 12-hour shift. Wondering if there would still be a ventilator available for us? So much uncertainty. So much death.
