A strange routine happens every day in office buildings and apartment complexes. When someone steps into an elevator, everyone quickly follows an unspoken set of rules. People look up at the floor numbers, pull out their phones, and any conversation that might have started quickly stops. We move to the corners, turn away from each
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Climate change is often compared to the ozone crisis and the success of the Montreal Protocol, with people asking the question: “If humanity solved the ozone problem, why can’t we solve climate change?” At first glance the question seems really straightforward. After all, the Montreal Protocol is widely regarded as one of the most successful
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The moment you open any website thing you see is usually a dialog box that says “Accept all cookies?” Most if not all of us click accept without much thought behind it because we just wanted the popup to get out of our faces. But what most of us probably don’t know is that there
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Every year during the summer, millions upon millions of people squeeze out sunscreen on the beach to smear across their body, confident that they are protected from the sun. Most of the time, they are. But ask any dermatologist what infuriates them most, and 80% of the time sunscreen myths would be in their top
Humanity obviously has a plastic problem, one that has been plaguing us since plastic was invented. Now when I say that plastic is plaguing us, I don’t just mean that there is an island of plastic twice the size of Texas sitting in the Pacific Ocean called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I mean that
Look anywhere in the grocery store and you will see calories. Not just because they are in the food, but they are also on it. Pretty much every single food item has a label that lists how many calories it has in each serving. Even outside of the grocery store, everything from a restaurant chain
Who doesn’t love a nice hot coffee on a cold night when you are forced to pull an all-nighter to finish that project you had 2 weeks to do, but only started on 2 hours ago? Well, some people, believe it or not, don’t drink coffee when cramming and it has nothing to do with
Expiration dates – The first thing everyone looks for when shopping, and the last thing everyone looks at before chucking something right into the garbage. According to a New York times article, 43% of people reported that they toss out products that are close to or past their expiration dates. With so many folks basing
If you’ve ever taken aspirin for a headache and felt better a short while later, you might have wondered, how exactly does the pill know to go to your head? Here’s the truth: it doesn’t. Medications don’t have navigation systems. They don’t target specific body parts the way a heat-seeking missile would. Instead, they work
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Did you know your fingers wrinkle the same way every time they get wet? It’s one of those oddly familiar things we notice without really questioning, like how your fingertips turn pruney after a long bath or washing dishes for a bit too long. But as it turns out, there’s more science behind this than
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