NASA Hopes Its Dramatic CO2 Simulations Will Get UN Leaders To Act

In a press release, NASA said that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measures at 400 parts per million (ppm), but it?s rising at 2 ppm every year. While...

A Step-By-Step Guide To Terraforming Mars

It has been a long dream for humankind to discover another liveable planet. But because of severe conditions such as powerful solar winds and a lack of atmosphere, our good...

Diversity In Tech: Could The Solution Be This Simple?

You’ve heard it all before: when it comes to gender and ethnic diversity in the workplace, tech companies have a lot of progress to make. Of the tech giants that have...

Measuring The Millennium Development Goals: Cutting Maternal Deaths

Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Le...

Can Quotas Help Tackle The Confidence Gender Gap?

Quotas — in politics, business, or education — are a heavy-handed way to banish gender discrimination. They increase female representation, but at wha...

A Minute With: Helen Mirren On Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, And Women

From the Queen of England, a tough chief detective and a handful of ruthless secret agents, Britain’s Dame Helen Mirren has never been a woman to be messed with &ndas...

A Chinese Photographer May Have Made The Perfect Gopro Stand

What’s ingenious about the stand is that it marks off common angles: 10º, 30º, 40º, and 45º, and you can adjust for negative or positive (high or ...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Why Catherine Hardwicke Started to Fight Back Against Hollywood Sexism.

Catherine Hardwicke recently stormed the red carpet of her latest indie, “Miss You Already,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. With her male publicist c...