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Just water jaden smith Even if he was just a tween at the time, Jaden Smith wanted to make a difference. After seeing plastic water bottles littering the ocean and the planet, he decided to create a company that replaced all those single-use plastic bottles with something more sustainable. “I knew that it was going to be really...

Will robots really work For decades, robots have worked alongside humans. In the auto industry, for example, they’ve long been the most precise and reliable welders and painters. Sitting in place and doing the same job, over and over, has historically been automation’s sweet spot. But, with the explosion in artificial intelligence, robots are coming to understand more...

What's a kraken Seattle announced the name of its new National Hockey League expansion team today. It’s the Kraken. NHL fans may be wondering: What the hell is that? Here’s an explainer to help you get crackin’. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It’s a “fabulous Scandinavian sea monster,” according to Merriam-Webster. The word is Norwegian in origin. Many parts...

Dominant personalities Almost every team has that one dominant personality who is motivated by winning, competition, and reaching results. While dominant personalities are often seen as commanding and confident, their characteristics have a flip side. They can also become obstinate, aggressive, and overly direct. Take Gabe, a business development manager at a food and beverage company. Gabe was...

How to be a better listener Ever zone out while someone is talking? Of course. We all do. The average human has an eight-second attention span. With electronic distractions competing for your time and an abundance of responsibilities at work, it makes listening attentively to someone else speak pretty difficult. “We are living in a time when it’s...

Ukraine headache meme The popular headache meme on social media has moved to the international-diplomacy space. On Tuesday, Ukraine tweeted the graphic that delineates a trio of well-known headache types—migraine, hypertension, and stress, each highlighting the corresponding pain in a different area of the brain—and then punchlines with a picture of a head that’s completely red. Its fourth...

Gas prices around the world The average price for a gallon of gas in the United States is above $4.75 (and in some areas, like California, upwards of $6.18). While those prices are exhausting many drivers’ budgets, they are something of a relief from previous weeks—on average, prices were about 10 cents higher a week ago. Even as...

lactation porn Lactation rooms are no longer a nice-to-have perk for working mothers–for many companies, they’re required by law. But just because lactation rooms became an architectural requirement for companies with more than 50 employees with the passage of the Affordable Care Act doesn’t mean they’re well designed. Many working women are still forced to pump in closets,...

Fake photo One month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an Access Hollywood recording of Donald Trump was released in which he was heard lewdly talking about women. The then-candidate and his campaign apologized and dismissed the remarks as harmless. At the time, the authenticity of the recording was never questioned. Just two years later, the public finds...

Pressure cooker bombs and backpack A Long Island woman was visited by local police officers working on an anti-terrorism detail, allegedly as a result of her family’s Google searches. Michele Catalano, a writer for Death and Taxes magazine, was searching Google to compare pressure cookers to buy. Then, as she writes for Medium, six men in plainclothes came...