About 1/3 of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year; approximately 1.3 billion tonnes gets lost or wasted. Industrialized anddeveloping countries waste roughly the same quantities of food – respectively 670 and 630 million tonnes. Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food(222 million tonnes) as the entire […]
Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 1st, 2011 by a team of 24 US Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group under command of the Join Special Operations Command and the CIA. They raided the compound in two super stealth Black Hawk helicopters, one of which was damaged upon attack and then […]
Hans Bethe’s 1939 discovery that the sun’s energy comes from nuclear fusion came shortly before the idea to use nuclear fusion for weapons. Regardless of when the idea surfaced, nearly 70 years later there are still questions on this subject. How much energy does nuclear fusion produce in the sun and can this be contained […]
Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health. From increased risk of heart disease and obesity in the long term, to sharply hampered cholesterol maintenance in the short term, the negative health effects of sitting are starting to weigh heavily against […]
The richest and most advanced country in the world, the United States, has fallen behind other nations in providing affordable health care to its citizens. Americans spend $477 billion a year more on health care than other advanced countries, which amounts to $1,645 per person every year. So why do we pay so much compared […]
