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teardrop on eyelashes

Can coronavirus spread through tears?

A new study finds that it is unlikely that infected patients are shedding the virus through their tears.

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer in Health March 26, 2020

flu ad

A picture is worth... Ride a bike and stay well

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 2, 2020

Reima Voyager jacket

This new children's jacket is fully recyclable

Sustainable Fashion

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 2, 2020

policemen wearing masks during 1918 flu epidemic

How to prepare for a quarantine

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 28, 2020

child eating snow

Yes, your kid can eat snow

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 28, 2020

Michelin man figurine sits with vintage travel guides

Fancy food guide adds sustainability symbol to highlight green restaurants

Lindsey Reynolds

By Lindsey Reynolds February 27, 2020

prAna sweaters

New prAna sweaters are made from recycled wool

Sustainable Fashion

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 27, 2020

ping pong

Ping pong holds promise for improving Parkinson’s symptoms

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 26, 2020

glass of natural wine outside in clover

What's the deal with natural wine?

Lindsey Reynolds

By Lindsey Reynolds February 26, 2020

corner store

Visit grocery stores when you travel

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 26, 2020

mushrooms

Umami mania: 9 foods in which the savory factor shines

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 25, 2020

bathroom jungle plants

The houseplants that are thriving in my bathroom jungle

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 25, 2020

riding a bicycle

Would you do a carbon fast for Lent?

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 25, 2020

photographing food for social media

Social media is influencing what you eat

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 25, 2020

cat music

This music calms cats the best, study finds

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 24, 2020

Repair Café

Want to save the world? Start with your own neighborhood.

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 24, 2020

sitting on a rock

Parents, don't be so scared of the world!

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 24, 2020

lawn

Please kill your lawn

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 21, 2020

Projecto Criança, Brazil

No country is doing enough to protect children's health and wellbeing

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 21, 2020

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Broad Hospital

Broad Sustainable Buildings builds a COVID hospital in two days

Homemade raisins

The truth about raisins and pesticides

yellow aphids

8 natural & homemade insecticides: Save your garden without killing the Earth

teddy bear amid clutter

In praise of maximalism

Toronto streetcar right of way

It's time to take back the streets for people who walk, run, or bike

tool bench

Man sets up camera to see who was secretly cleaning his shed at night (video)

movie marquis with coronavirus advice

Common household products that can kill the coronavirus

Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein sitting in an armchair and smoking a pipe, circa 1932.

Why Albert Einstein hated capitalism

dreaming octopus

Sleeping octopus's changing camouflage narrates her dream (video)

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