Fresh pickings: prescribing produce, not pills
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Posted on August 10, 2018
Detroit-based prescription service is not for drugs, but for fresh fruit and vegetables…
Read MoreSuccessfully transplanted the liver of a minor donor to a 13-year-old girl and an 8-month-old baby
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Posted on August 8, 2018
The Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona has successfully performed a liver transplant performed by the split procedure, which consists of dividing the donor's liver to obtain fully functional grafts for two recipients, in this case, a 13-year-old girl and a 8-months baby. The liver donor was also a minor and the receiving girls were in a critical situation that could only be resolved with a transplant. The head of the hepatobiliopancreatic surgery and transplant service at the Vall d'Hebron ho…
Read MoreA boy of 12 years, the youngest university student in Mexico
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Posted on August 7, 2018
With the amazement and energy of a child but with the maturity and responsibility of an adult, Carlos Santamaría will study in one of the most prestigious universities in Latin America. With only 12 years old, this child will study biomedical physics at the UNAM. When Carlos Santamaría goes out to play like the other kids his age, few imagine that his IQ is so high that he will start a university career this week…
Read MoreThey create a plastic bag that dissolves in water and does not contaminate
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Posted on August 6, 2018
Researchers at the Chilean company "SoluBag" have created water-soluble plastic bags that do not harm the environment. The innovation does not contain the harmful petroleum derivatives of ordinary plastic, which here have been replaced by derivatives of a non-polluting limestone. It is a product developed with a material similar to plastic, but which disappears when it comes into contact with water…
Read MoreLaurent Simons, the Belgian boy who will start university at age 8
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Posted on August 1, 2018
At age 8, he received his high school diploma and made the difference. At first glance, he seems common among the thousands of students who graduate in schools around the world…
Read MoreIn Amsterdam they make shoes with recycled gum from the street
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Posted on July 31, 2018
It is a very difficult and costly waste to dispose of, but Gumbudy seems to have found the solution. Chewing gums end up on the floor as often as cigarette butts. Both highly polluting, are waste of difficult and expensive elimination…
Read MoreIndia promotes the subject of Happiness in schools thanks to the Dalai Lama
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Posted on July 30, 2018
In the schools of New Delhi, 45 minutes will be devoted to games, meditation and debates around this concept. The Dalai Lama presented the "curriculum of happiness", a subject for schools in New Delhi (India) that aims to bring the search for joy to the classroom and make young people develop skills such as empathy or self-awareness. The new discipline, which will not have exams or notes, will incorporate into the school day 45 minutes of games, reflections, meditation and group discussions ab…
Read MoreGrandparents' Day: Google pays tribute to them with their doodle.
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Posted on July 26, 2018
On 26th July, the "Grandfather's Day" is celebrated in many countries. The celebration has religious motives. The Catholic Church commemorates San Joaquín and Santa Ana, parents of the Virgin Mary, and grandparents of Jesus. Therefore, today, Google pays tribute to these special people such as grandparents with their Doodle.Grandparents are that kind of people who love you above all things, and who are there to help you when you need it…
Read MoreThe course on happiness that triumphs at Yale University
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Posted on July 25, 2018
'Psychology and the good life' has become the most popular class in history at the prestigious Yale University, USA. One in four students, 1,200 people in total, looks for the keys to be happy through this subject. The secret of happiness is a mystery that has remained hidden throughout the history of mankind…
Read MoreRecord: installed in Chihuahua 18,990 solar panels in a day!
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Posted on July 23, 2018
"Mexico achieved a new world record: The largest number of solar panels installed in a single day," the WEF described in the video it posted on its social networks. He adds that "they are building one of the largest solar parks in Latin America," while exhibiting images of the Italian company Enel Green Power. This solar park "measures what 2 thousand 200 football fields" and "will eventually have more than 2 million solar panels" that seek the sun as if they were sunflowers, t…
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