Cellphone Addiction May Be Contagious, Study Finds. Think you’re addicited to your smartphone?
Turns out that cellphone addiction might be contagious. According to a new study conducted by the University of Michigan, people are more likely to pull out their phone when someone around them does the same. In the study, researchers watched groups of students, documenting their cellphone use every 10 seconds. Overall, students were on their phones 24% of the time they spent with a friend, and were 39.5% more likely to use their phone when the person they were sitting with had done so in the previous 10-second interval. Social_poster_10.jpg (640×961) Are you stuck in the traffic? Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time. Old Red Goes Green: Recycled Wall Brick Built to Save Water. It might look like your typical old red clay house-building brick on one side, but turn it over and there is a shift that hints at a deeper design change – one that is eco-friendly but also expressive in a way that most walls or brick are not.
Designed by Jin-young Yoon to be made from recycled plastic and decomposed leaves, this brick is green from the ground up (so to speak). More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage. In a world where water is becoming the next hot-button resource destined to become scarce, it seems like a good time to start thinking about our most basic building materials and structures (such as bricks and walls) and see how they might shift to accommodate an ever-growing need for homes to have access to nature’s most vital resource. Trans0309walkthisway.jpg (1900×1300) Pollution.
The Food Project. Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system.