It’s not all bottles and straws—the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s largest collection of floating trash—and the most famous. It lies between Hawaii and California and is often described as “larger than Texas,” even though it contains not a square foot of surface on which to stand. It cannot be seen from space, as is often claimed.
Continue reading… “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t what you think it is”
When Albert Einstein first predicted that light travels the same speed everywhere in our Universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on it: 299,792 kilometres per second (186,282 miles per second) – fast enough to circle the entire Earth eight times every second.
Continue reading… “These 4 Cosmic Phenomena Travel Faster Than The Speed of Light”
10 highest-paying fields — with lots of growth — for gig workers
This is one hell of a gig.
Millions of workers now participate in the gig economy — loosely defined as the workers who work a series of freelance or temporary jobs rather than one full-time job. Indeed, about one in four Americans now participates in the digital gig economy, using apps or websites like Airbnb or Uber to earn some extra cash.
Continue reading… “The secret to making $115 an hour in the gig economy”
A new research push aims to make the silver bullet for our energy problems a reality by 2033—a very ambitious target.
Continue reading… “MIT researchers say nuclear fusion will feed the grid “in 15 years””
How much money it takes to be “rich” varies from city to city.
About 20% of Americans are upper-income, or “rich,” meaning they earn at least two times the national median household income.
The amount of money it takes to be considered rich is largest in San Jose, California.
Continue reading… “How much money you have to earn to be considered rich in 42 major US cities”
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.
A large megaphone projects lies, fake news, falsehoods, and images of Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, and Hillary Clinton. A smaller megaphone projects truth.
Continue reading… “The grim conclusions of the largest-ever study of fake news”
The best place to retire depends on what you value.
When deciding the best place to retire, it’s important to consider affordability, quality of life, and health care.
Minnesota is the best for quality of life and healthcare, but has low affordability for retirees.
Florida is the best state for retirees, not surprising considering it has the most senior citizens.
Continue reading… “All 50 states ranked for retirement from worst to best”
The moon, shown here in a 1992 image captured by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, is set to get its own mobile phone network.
Continue reading… “The Moon is set to get its own mobile phone network”
The cryptocurrency market, which trades various digital-based coins, can look exciting, scary, and mysterious all at once to the casual observer. Its pioneer, Bitcoin, dramatically surged in value and steeply dropped (before picking back up) in recent months. ICOs (initial coin offerings for new cryptocurrencies), meanwhile, are emerging at a head-spinning rate.
Atari, the company that dominated the early years of
the American video game industry, has fallen on hard times. Despite the company’s storied history and influence on the gaming industry, it never truly recovered from the video game crash of 1983. The company is still around, however, and recently saw its stock prices soar as it announced a new line of Atari-branded cryptocurrency tokens.
Continue reading… “Atari embraces cryptocurrencies and sees its stock prices soar”
The creation of in vitro, or “clean,” meat involves extracting stem cells from animals
The extracted cells are grown and multiplied in a lab to create meat
Experts’ conservative estimates say clean meat will on store shelves by 2021
Continue reading… “How close are we to a hamburger grown in a lab?”
The future of artificial intelligence is both exciting and terrifying. It’s development will have an impact on your life over the next ten years, in more ways than one. While yes, it will have many positive impacts, The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report recently warned that artificial intelligence could also be exploited by criminals and terrorists for negative use. We know, pretty scary stuff, right?
We wanted to delve a little deeper into the future of AI, so we spoke to some experts working in the industry about how it’s expected to affect your dating, work and personal life very soon…
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
Learn More about this exciting program.