Ariel Schwartz

Is The Open-Office Trend Reversing Itself?

Employers spent years knocking down their walls. Now they are slowly building them back up.

Take Your Vitamins And Supplements, Minus All The Artificial Ingredients

Many pills contain synthetic vitamins, fish and dairy products, and unknown fillers. A new company says it can make more pure products made only from plants.

The Countries That Have The Most Resilient Supply Chains

Japan’s manufacturing industry weathered the post-Fukushima crisis pretty well, all things considered. Other countries are less prepared for big disasters.

This Teenager Just Designed A System That Keeps You Safe From Germs On Planes

Air cocoons insulate you from your sneezing, coughing neighbor.

The World’s First $9 Computer Does Everything That Your Expensive Model Can Do

Chip is a bona fide Kickstarter hit. But the tiny computer’s implications go far beyond the novelty of a cheap computer.

Walmart Is Bottling Water From The Middle Of California’s Drought

Buying a city’s water supply for dirt cheap and reselling it for not-dirt cheap is already egregious, even in better, wetter times.

This Is the First Surfboard Made From Algae, No Petroleum Required

With An Electric Zap, This Bandage-Sized Wearable Provides Instant Pain Relief

Soothe your sore muscles with a simple new device that gives a treatment you used to have to see a doctor to get.

Need A Break From Home, But Want To Keep Working? Take A Jobbatical

A site that matches employers and wandering gig-seekers wants to foster a new way to travel. Like everything else, it helps if you can code.

Collapsing Buildings Were The Most Dangerous Part Of The Nepal Earthquake–What Could Make Them Better?

In a poor country that’s rapidly urbanizing, earthquake readiness isn’t a high priority, but Nepal’s two temblors shows why it’s necessary. What can other cities and countries learn from how Nepal’s buildings fared in the quakes?

“Smart” Inhalers Are Now Monitoring All The Asthmatics Of Louisville

A new kind of air-monitoring network, courtesy of the people who can’t breathe because the smog is choking them.

Erica Mackie

For using solar to empower people.

The “Safe” Replacement To Cancer-Causing Chemicals In Pizza Boxes May Be—You Guessed It— Also Toxic

Scientists want you to know about a class of chemicals that is potentially harmful–and very difficult for consumers to avoid.

Danilo Leao

The Ridiculous Jobs Of The Digital Economy, Illustrated As Children’s Book Characters

The BusinessTown Tumblr takes the ridiculous jobs and workplace archetypes of Silicon Valley and makes them cute animals in the style of Richard Scarry.

Henry Red Cloud

For letting the sun shine on the reservation.

This Famous Solar-Powered Plane Is About To Take A Five-Day Flight Across The Pacific

Solar Impluse 2’s latest journey will take it (very slowly) from China to Hawaii–as long as it doesn’t run out of power first.

What A Secretive Military Agency Is Doing For The Future Of Global Health

As U.S. military troops wind down their Ebola mission in West Africa, DARPA’s is just ramping up.

You’ll Get Paid More Money At Work If You’re Not Neurotic