LIFE

What Does Today’s Wireless Family Look Like?

The wireless family is on the rise. With the plethora of gadgets released each year, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a family member without a mobile device. Children receive their first cellphones at earlier ages, and parents who grew up sans Internet are learning to navigate the web. FULL ARTICLE.

Life Before and After Cellphones

In the digital age, we tend to rely on our phones for everything: communicating with others, finding the best directions, passing the time with apps. The list goes on and on. A glorious comic. FULL ARTICLE.

Pope on the Subway!
It remains to be seen how green (or not) new Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be, but this photo of him riding the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina, certainly makes a good ad for public transportation. Hopefully his followers are paying attention to at least that! FULL ARTICLE.

Pope Francis in 92 Seconds

And…this! FULL ARTICLE.

TECHNOLOGY

Device Disbles Car to Prevent Driver from Texting

Most systems designed to stop texting while driving — such as TXTBlockerand cellCONTROL — do so by blocking text message signals when the phone is in a car. However, a new product called ORIGOSafe takes a different approach: unless your phone is plugged into the device, your car will not start. FULL ARTICLE.

KLM to Offer Weekly Flights with Plane Powered By Cooking Oil

KLM, a Dutch airline, has begun powering some transatlantic flights with a fuel mix that of 25% cooking oil and 75% jet fuel. 25 roundtrip flights between New York’s JFK and Amsterdam’s Schiphol will take place every Thursday for the next six months. So while I’m not a big fans of biofuels in general for thereasons stated by Dr. Hartmut Michel, this is actually a good use of them; aviation needs energy-dense fuel and can’t be electrified in the near future, and waste cooking oil that might otherwise be thrown away is a great “free lunch”. FULL ARTICLE. 

HEALTH

10 Full Body Workouts in 10 Minutes

It’d be nice if regular activity was woven into our daily lives so that we could stay lean, strong, and fit without really thinking about it, but that’s not the world most of us live in. We have to set aside time to move our bodies. But, as I always say, this doesn’t mean we have to exercise atop a conveyor belt with a TV in front of it doing everything we can to forget that we’re even exercising in the first place. FULL ARTICLE.

Healthy Mushroom and White Bean Soup!

With a cold wind bringing rain to San Francisco, I couldn’t have picked a better day to cook up this delicious soup. It’s perfect for a chilly day. There are only a few ingredients to this meal and it cooks up quickly, which makes it extra appealing as a last-minute-soup recipe. FULL RECIPE.