Vaping and encrypted delivery services are just a few products of the crossover between tech and weed, but what will happen when full legalization opens up pot to the frenzy of disruption and market forces ? Last Friday, Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at NYU’s Marron Institute published an op-ed in Vox titled, “How to prevent […]

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2018 / The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), an environmental health nonprofit organization, announced today the launch of its new lifestyle website Because Health.The website offers environmental health educational content and information through a combination of science-based articles, tips, product recommendations and expert advice so that people can make well-informed, healthy and non-toxic choices. By partnering with environmental health […]

Whether she’s becoming the biggest meme of the 2018 Oscars or posting on Instagram about her pet chickens, we can’t get enough of Jennifer Garner’s sense of humor and down-to-earth personality. And as it turns out, her beauty advice is similarly low-key. In an interview for People‘s Beautiful Issue, Garner revealed what she would tell her teenage self about […]

Washington (CNN)The White House is continuing its push to temper expectations around a potential face-to-face meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — insisting that the US will not negotiate any concessions until Pyongyang takes concrete steps toward dismantling its nuclear and missile programs. Trump immediately touted North Korea’s pledge […]

I’ve always embraced my American identity. At 8 years old, I came home from school crying. I had found out that I could never be president of the United States. Because not only am I an American, I am also an Iranian. Now, as a fully grown woman, I still sometimes come home crying. My […]

Britain’s Prince William accompanied his wife Kate as she left hospital Monday evening after giving birth to a baby boy, the couple’s third child who is fifth in line to the British throne. The boy, weighing eight pounds and seven ounces (3.8 kilogrammes), was born at 11:01 am (1001 GMT) with William, the Duke of […]

South Korea’s biggest phone manufacturer lost its vice president to its fiercest global rival at its home ground. Apple has appointed a new leader for its business in South Korea, the home of its biggest rival, Samsung. And it’s none other than a top executive from that very company. Former Samsung Corporate Vice President Brandon Yoon has […]

NASA has partnered with The Fairchild Challenge — an annual standards-based environmental outreach programme which reaches more than 125,000 students annually — to help determine which edible plants might be suitable for growth in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in the Veggie growth chamber. Not only scientists with advanced degrees but students are also […]

Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking to a computer.  The retail and cloud computing giant has embarked on an ambitious, top-secret plan to build a domestic robot, according […]

Last week, oil prices hit their highest level since late 2014 on the back of continued global and U.S. stockpile drawdowns and expectations that oil demand growth will stay strong this year. Analysts and officials are once again trying to predict what a ‘fair’ price for oil is – a prediction that must take into […]