A newly published study from the University of Copenhagen has confirmed a link between hormonal contraceptives and depression. The largest of its kind, with one million Danish women between the ages of 15 and 34 tracked for a total of 13 years, it’s the kind of study that women such as me, who have experienced…
Categoria: Tecnologia
Why my dream of becoming a pro gamer ended in utter failure
Free-to-play games such as Hearthstone offer huge prize money but winning tournaments is not actually a good way to make a living, finds Alex Hern It’s the lot of every sports fan to sit on the sofa watching their stars play and think “I could do that, if I tried” safe in the knowledge that…
Al costo di un iPhone, la turbina eolica che può alimentare una casa per tutta la vita
Tra tutti gli Stati che fan parte della Repubblica dell’India, il Kerala spicca per la sua alta percentuale di alfabetizzazione (siamo intorno al 90%) e per il per il tasso più basso di corruzione (che siano collegati?). Ma è salito alla ribalta della notorietà anche sul piano di sviluppo energetico grazie ad una coppia di…
Beat The System With This List Of 40 Free Educational Websites
According to http://www.webometrics.info, there are more than 17 000 universities in the world, but getting a degree in many of them is quite costly. Many students around the world(and their families) get into big debts or have to work over sixty hours a week in order to afford an Education. Two thirds of the US…
World’s First Solar Road Opens in France
A small village in France is now home to the world’s first solar road, aka Wattway. French Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal officially inaugurated the 1 kilometer-long road covered with 2,800-square-meters of resin-encased panels in Tourouvre-au-Perche in Normandy on Thursday. The French Ministry of the Environment invested €5 million ($5.2 million) to build the project…
Assange released 500,000 diplomatic cables which reveals how the CIA created ISIS
The founder of the transparency organization WikiLeaks released a statement on 1 December upon the release of over 500,000 diplomatic cables dating back to 1979, which succinctly reveals how the CIA was essentially responsible for creating the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group. The timing of the release coincided with the sixth anniversary of WikiLeaks “Cablegate” release,…
Reinventing construction: the first hempcrete block plant in america
“We are making a building material out of hemp to build a better world.” – Art Du Chanvre Hemp can grow anywhere, in any climate. Hemp requires no herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or insecticides to grow well. Hemp can absorb 4x as much carbon dioxide in the air compared to trees. Hemp helps detoxify and regenerate the…
Bassweight: a dubstep documentary that looks to the future
Plenty of music docs turn to the past to tell their story. But Bassweight, which charts the rise of dubstep as it gains momentum, could be about to change all that The annals of music history are full of weighty documentaries, from Ages of Rock to Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. But what if you want…
Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish
Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. What lessons can we learn, asks Hazel Sheffield http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling-is-so-revolutionary-the-country-has-run-out-of-rubbish-a7462976.html?cmpid=facebook-post Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1…
The Best and Worst Times to Share on Facebook, Twitter
Want your link to get the most traction on Twitter? Post it on a Monday between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET. Link shortening and tracking service bit.ly has released new data on the best and worst times to share links on popular social networks, from Facebook and Twitter to blogging site Tumblr. The company…
