There’s always one. No matter how bold a goal we announce. No matter how transparent we are in our reporting. There’s always someone in the comments pointing out our sustainability shortcomings, blind spots, or apparent failures. We’re all for it. In 2020 we published thefirst Polestar 2 Life Cycle Assessment, including its full methodology. This prompted a critical response from within the car industry, which became known as Astongate. It even hasits own Wikipedia page....

“Architecture Magic” features an apartment building in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco that has recently been remodeled to include four car parking spaces while maintaining the historical Victorian facade. The building was designed byBeausoleil Architects. From theBeausoleil architectural blog: The bottom floor of the building, a historic Victorian apartment house, had a hodgepodge of storage rooms, utility spaces and an ancient studio apartment shoehorned between a dozen wood posts. The original brick foundations were underfoot....

While Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup screws around withgamer monkeys, another team of scientists has reached a true milestone in neuroprosthetics: enabling a man who can’t speak to generate sentences with his mind. Researchers at theUniversity of California San Francisco (UCSF)achieved the feat using an implant that decodes full sentences from brain activity. They tested the system on a man in his late 30s, who suffered a brainstem stroke in his teens that left him unable to talk....

Chances are, when you think “open,” “social,” and “sharing,” your doctor, lawyer, and financial person are probably not at the top of your list. These are the people you trust your most intimate details with, and it’s exactly this discretion that you’re paying for. But doctors, lawyers, and financiers are people too; shouldn’t they have their fair voice in the exchange of information? Isn’t one of the awesome things about social media the sharing (and caring), the discovery of something new, and the knowledge gained from others?...

In space, bacteria is even more deadly and resilient to antibiotics We don’t yet know the gravity of the problem All life on Earth evolved with gravity as an ever-present force. Thus, Earth’s life has not adapted to spend time in space. When gravity is removed or greatly reduced, processes influenced by gravity behave differently as well. In space, where there is minimal gravity, sedimentation (when solids in a liquid settle to the bottom), convection (the transfer of heat energy), and buoyancy (the force that makes certain objects float)are minimized....