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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city.

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Get inside the minds of first-time travelers in this new documentary

Mashable Tech

As the airline flying to more countries than any other, we are committed to connecting the world through the universal language of art and culture.” See how travel changes the brain This documentary does more than capture these first-time travelers' experiences. also a profound experience that transforms a person’s inner world.

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). Apple and Microsoft are expanding their work with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Apple’s $100 million represents just 0.18 percent of the $55.3 billion in profits the company made in 2019.

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How did eastern North America form?

Ars Technica

She hears a lot of the same suggestions: Iceland, the Grand Canyon, the Himalayas. Nobody ever says Connecticut, says Long, a geologist at Yale University in New Haven in that state. When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology.

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America’s global happiness ranking just dropped to record lows, with Gen Z feeling especially bleak

Fast Company Tech

While all those factors are important, the key to happiness is often attributed to Harvard University’s landmark 85-year Study of Adult Development , which discovered that close relationships are the strongest predictor of happiness throughout our lives. Each person ranked their own happiness over the past three years from 2022 to 2024.

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Rogue Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Human Babies Gear Up for More Human Experiments

Futurism

Peppered between self-aggrandizing posts are a number of shockingly egalitarian claims, including an insistence that " health is the universal human right " and that "'Survival of the fittest' is unfair for the people born with genetic disadvantages." "No For all that creepiness, however, He clearly has heart.

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Get inside the minds of first-time travelers in this new documentary

Mashable Tech

As the airline flying to more countries than any other, we are committed to connecting the world through the universal language of art and culture.” See how travel changes the brain This documentary does more than capture these first-time travelers' experiences. also a profound experience that transforms a person’s inner world.

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