To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
As Earth's population continues to swell, it becomes increasingly clear that the dominant model for resource management and distribution is not designed to cope....
Most afternoons on the tiny island nation of Taiwan, Beethoven's iconic tune Fur Elise echoes throughout the streets. Fur Elise is in the fabric of childhood...
In a world first, France further solidified its plans to become carbon neutral when President Emmanuel Macron presented a bill to the French cabinet...
