The Innovations Making Africa a Leader in Off-Grid Solar

In Africa, roughly 600 million people live without electricity. This glaring lack in gridded power has attracted the attention of various outside companies, many of which to look to the continent to test cutting-edge technical innovations. Now, some African countries have flexible, renewable electricity infrastructures that are unseen anywhere else in the world, making Africa the leading continent in off-grid solar power. Read more on …

How Netflix and Amazon are Transforming Sundance

After this year’s Sundance Film Festival, it became evident how tech giants like Amazon and Netflix could completely change the industry of filmmaking. Both companies poured a combined $30 million into picking up films from the festival for their streaming services—significantly more than traditional distributors were willing to dish out. And because these multi-billion dollar companies have stockpiles of cash sitting in the bank, their …

The Healing Bond Between Parrots and PTSD Patients

At Serenity Park in Ojai, California, PTSD patients find comfort in the company of parrots, cockatoos and other abandoned birds. Like the patients themselves, the birds have survived trauma previously, and now look to their human companions for healing. The new bonds have given way to surprising discoveries in avian intelligence. “When examined through the lens of complex PTSD,” explains Dr Gay Bradshaw, “the symptoms …