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It looks like we are looking more blue around here. We added some more colour to brighten everyone’s day. Hope you like the way it looks!
We also upgraded Wordpress, which is what we use for making all this goodness you read every day. If you find any bugs with the site please let us [...]

The first ever World Map of Happiness has been created. This map measures the happiness levels of people from different countries all over the globe. Developed at the UK’s University of Leicester the Happy Map is based on responses from 80,000 people worldwide who rated such things as their health levels, prosperity and education. Denmark [...]

Recent studies show that people with type 2 diabetes can experience dramatic improvements in their health if they switch to a low fat, vegan diet. Research in Canada and the U.S has been done on two separate groups of patients with diabetes, with about half on the vegan diet, and the other half on the [...]

Wired is running an article on using floors to capture energy. Since walking causes vibrations energy is being produced and right now that energy is being wasted, Jim Gilbert wants to change that using some new technologies to capture that energy. The biggest hurdle, like with all renewable energies, is energy storage.
“Gilbert is working [...]

Speaking only English limits people, and it limits the reach of knowledge. So to make this site slightly more friendly to non-English speakers you can now easily grab a Google translation of the site:

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The UN is pushing for new technologies to help people who need accessibility support. The good news is that this has started to happen. OneWorld South Asia is reporting on the use of ICTs designed for accessibility.
Google recently added more accessibility services to its search engine. Google Labs created Accessible Web Search for the Visually [...]