As the pandemic heightens B.C.’s housing crisis, some are taking the initiative to invent their own solutions. One example is the little sleeping cabins that popped up overnight in downtown Duncan. Frustrated by the city’s status quo approach, John Horn, a housing advocate came up with this cabin-village idea to …
Homelessness remains a major issue throughout the United States. A problem that has only worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic began there are now over 700,000 homeless individuals throughout the world’s wealthiest nation. Homelessness is caused by a variety of factors both specific to individuals and one’s endemic within society at …
Amazon’s decision to build a new Headquarters at Arlington, Virginia, has caused local housing prices to quickly rise by 50%, raising concerns about affordability. In order to offset the negative impacts of the company’s move, the e-commerce giant is financing 1,200 affordable housing units right next to the HQ.
Many doctors around the world are saying that during the COVID-19 pandemic there have been fewer cases of preterm babies being born. Doctors say that there are three main causes for this: (1) social distancing, which reduced the levels of infection that get transferred from being in contact with other …
Microplastics are minuscule pieces of plastic that have become a plague in our modern environment. These microplastics are everywhere and end up in the food we consume and the air we breathe in. The result is that microplastics not only pose environmental risks but also are a major public health …
As new variants continue to grow around the world, researchers at the Pearl River research center are continuously working around the clock to ensure the Pfizer vaccines provide protection against new mutations. Phil Dormitzer, who is the leading scientist at the lab disclosed that after a series of tests the …
The company Zipline is engineering Medical Drones to deliver life saving medicine to hospitals and medical centres. Zipline believes that through the use of Drones you can deliver crucial medicine such as blood or vaccines to areas that would otherwise be too remote and lack the infrastructure to receive such …
A casual walk in the park might help improve brain health by reanimating the white matter in our brains. A recent study by the research team from Colorado State University finds that the neurons in our white matter could be capable of adapting to our lifestyle, allowing for lifelong plasticity. …
As more and more vaccinations get injected into arms across North America have you ever stopped to think how vaccinations truly work? It is a tricky question, we actually created vaccines before we knew how they functioned, and this answer was only discovered through decades of continuous scientific study. We …
India’s COVID-19 journey has been difficult to say the least. India, like most countries, had a scary first wave of cases but managed to keep its head above water. The drop in case numbers following this meant the country opened up; airports, train stations, clubs, markets, malls and gyms once …