LIFE

  Improve Your WiFi Signal Using a Soda Can

When your life is nothing but trolling and viral videos, having a bad wi-fi connection can be incredibly irritating. Poor loading times, lost connections, and more can put a strain on your time browsing the internet. However, there are some ways to improve your Wi-Fi connection. FULL ARTICLE.

HEALTH

  Why Health Integrity Matters, or The Power of Being Honest With Yourself

Today we have infinite possibilities, and we suffer as well as benefit a great deal for it. We have the option of sitting on the couch all weekend watching a Game of Thrones marathon. We have the potential to eat at McDonald’s for thirty days straight. We can buy a pack of cigarettes despite the fact we’re hooked up to an oxygen tank. We can have our doctor up our insulin dosage and buy a large Slurpee or a Krispy Kreme on the way home. We can stress ourselves to our last, pathetic nerve (and adrenal exhaustion) by living on too much work, too little sleep, too much worry, and too many stimulants. We have the choice – and that’s exactly what it is: a choice. Whatever our past, whatever our present condition, however, we are always free to make a different next choice. FULL ARTICLE.

TECHNOLOGY

Top 10 Tech Stories from March

Virtual fences for cows. Projects for Raspberry Pi microcomputers. A teen invents a solution for cleaning up ocean plastic. Charging your cell phone with text messages. These and other awesome stories from March are rounded up here so you can get caught up quickly.  FULL ARTICLE.

  Cell-ebration! 40 Years of  Cell Phone History

Today’s mobile movement is all about efficiency and multitasking. But with the first cellphone in 1973, you could place a phone call and get a workout at the same time. After all, the phone weighed 2.5 pounds.

The cellphone turned 40 on Wednesday, April 3. Its creator, Martin Cooper, 84, placed the first mobile phone call on the streets of New York City — he phoned his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs. You can imagine how cheeky that exchange was. FULL ARTICLE.