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If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that inaccessible affordable health care has had a significant impact on marginalized communities–especially during a public health crisis. In an effort to support its goal of raising $100 million in funds to help close the health care gap, Scarborough Health Network (SHN) Foundation, in collaboration…Read More

Unilever has outlined why it has tabled three bids, with the latest at around $68 billion, for the Consumer Healthcare division of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Following an “extensive” review, the British owner of Ben & Jerry’s, PG Tips, Dove and Lipton Tea has decided that its strategic direction should be to “materially expand” its health, beauty…Read More

How did the dog become your teacher’s problem?

When we’re actively enrolled in a journey, it’s on us. That’s the requirement once you choose to act professionally. You know the terms, the dates, the structure. It wasn’t even fine print. It’s simply the structure you agreed to be part of.

Of course, enrollment is frightening. Because enrollment confers responsibility. “This is something I’m choosing to do.”

Compulsory education doesn’t often lead to real learning. That’s because compulsory education is coerced. There’s no active enrollment.

For the rest of us, there’s the chance to engage and to move forward. And part of the journey is acknowledging that we have a dog, that life gets in the way, that it’s never the ideal moment or the perfect time. And then doing something about it.

Leaping isn’t easy, but it’s far better and safer than the alternative.

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We’ve all been there before: we need to send a file from our phone to our laptop or vice versa, only to find that it can still be a surprisingly clunky process even in 2022. While most of us will resort to sending ourselves an email or uploading a file to cloud storage, Google is apparently working on a way to make it easy and intuitive to send files to yourself. The company recently launched Nearby Share on ChromeOS and Android as a competitor to Apple’s AirDrop, allowing you to easily send files to nearby devices. The only problem is…

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If you want artificial intelligence to have human ethics, you have to teach it to evolve ethics like we do. At least that’s what a pair of researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, India proposed in a pre-print paper published today. Titled “AI and the Sense of Self,” the paper describes a methodology called “elastic identity” by which the researchers say AI might learn to gain a greater sense of agency while simultaneously understanding how to avoid “collateral damage.” In short, the researchers are suggesting that we teach AI to be more ethically-aligned with humans by…

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NFT art has exploded in popularity, but it faces an uncertain future on Wikipedia. Editors of the online encyclopedia recently voted against categorizing non-fungible tokens as art. The result sparked fury in the crypto community. The poll stemmed from discussions about Wikipedia’s list of the most expensive artworks by living artists, Cointelegraph reports. The editors debated whether NFTs such as Murat Pak’s $91.8M The Merge and Beeple’s $69M Everydays should join the list. A majority of editors have voted against their inclusion. While the result isn’t binding and involves a single Wikipedia page, the vote has caused consternation among NFT advocates.…

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The idea of a road that can collect and harvest energy from the vibrations of passing cars, buses, and trucks sounds like science fiction. Fortunately, energy harvesting is an idea that’s been alive and well in the scientific community. But it has only recently made the pivot into real-world commercial applications. So, let’s take a look at the most prominent that are working towards making science (fiction) a reality:  ElectReon (Israel) ElectReon is an Israeli firm developing an in-road inductive charging system. How it works: Its charging solution powers EVs from electrical fields generated by copper coils under the asphalt A…

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In most cities, highways encompass a massive surface area that is expensive to maintain considering the cost of surface maintenance, lamp posts, signage, and electric vehicle charging stations.  But over the last decade, scientists and startups have been working on a solution: the EVs themselves. By harnessing some of the energy generated from the road’s surface, electric vehicles can reduce road infrastructure and charging costs. But how did we get here, and what does it mean for the future of electric vehicles?  Let’s take a deep dive into the science. Don’t worry, I’ll make it easy to understand. Energy harvesting…

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You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces – the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a fundamental but slightly more cryptic side to the metaverse that will set it apart from today’s internet: the blockchain. In the beginning, Web 1.0 was the information superhighway of connected computers and servers that you could search, explore and inhabit, usually through a centralized company’s platform – for example, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google. Around the turn of the millennium, Web 2.0 came to be characterized by social…

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Lithium-sulphur batteries may well be the next generation of power cells that we use in our electric vehicles — if scientists can get them to last longer. And that’s exactly what a team of researchers at the University of Michigan has tried to accomplish with the development of a 1,000-cycle battery that could quintuple EV range. What’s the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries? Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have a series of advantages over their lithium-ion (Li-ion) counterparts:  The theoretical energy density of a lithium-sulfur cell is 2,510Wh/kg, compared to a lithium-ion’s 300Wh/kg. This means that Li-S batteries can store two to five…

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