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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderdi. 17 sep. ’19
Kanye West tried to build ‘Star Wars’-inspired domes for the homeless, but LA officials just forced him to tear them down
Kanye West constructed four “Star Wars”-inspired structures on his property in Calabasas, California, which were intended to house the homeless. The dwellings were supposed to be temporary prototypes, but a Los Angeles county inspector said they look…
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- vr. 13 sep. ’19
The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching some trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Take a look at its journey.
More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in oceans. At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. Slat eventually proposed a massive cleanup device that could c…
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderdo. 12 sep. ’19
A 25-year-old’s mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has yielded a new discovery — and it means the plastic problem is even worse than we thought
Millions of tons of plastic accumulate in the oceans each year, but only a small fraction of that winds up on the surface. For years, scientists believed that the “missing” plastic quickly degraded into tiny fragments, then fell to the bottom of the …
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderwo. 11 sep. ’19
Fukushima is running out of space to store contaminated water. Japan’s environment minister said the ‘only option’ is to dump it in the ocean.
Eight years after the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima power plant, the facility contains more than 1 million tons of contaminated water. Japan’s environment minister recently said the “the only option” is to dump that water into the Pacific Oce…
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderwo. 11 sep. ’19
A Swedish scientist suggested the climate crisis could lead people to consider eating human flesh. It’s not the first time a scientist has suggested the idea.
Climate change is likely to put stress on our agricultural system and cause severe food shortages in the future. Behavioral scientist Magnus Söderlund recently suggested that because of this, people might one day consider eating human flesh. In 2018,…
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- wo. 11 sep. ’19
Stunning images of the New York City skyline every year on 9/11
September 11, 2019 is the 18th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The destruction of the Twin Towers left a glaring hole in the New York City skyline. Following the attacks, movies and television shows replaced images of or cut sce…
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderdi. 10 sep. ’19
The site of an abandoned mental hospital in North Carolina is being transformed into the next ‘Central Park.’ Take a look.
The city of Raleigh recently released a plan to convert the site of an abandoned mental hospital into a park. The hospital closed in 2012 after operating for more than 150 years. Before that, the site held a large slave-owning plantation. Raleigh hop…
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insidervr. 6 sep. ’19
The scientists who photographed a supermassive black hole for the first time just won a $3 million prize. Here’s their groundbreaking image.
Because black holes devour light, getting one on camera had proved nearly impossible until this year. A team of scientists released the first-ever photograph of a supermassive black hole in April. The image just earned them a $3 million Breakthrough …
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderwo. 4 sep. ’19
Haunting photos reveal what nuclear-disaster ghost towns look like years after being abandoned
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 transformed the city of Pripyat into a ghost town. Other towns have also been abandoned after nuclear disasters, and each is a skeleton of its former self, strewn with deserted cars and dilapidated buildings. Ph…
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- Aria Bendix voor Business Insiderwo. 4 sep. ’19
A house made of plastic soda bottles can withstand winds twice as strong as a Category 5 hurricane. Take a look inside.
Hurricanes are becoming stronger and more devastating, generating a need for technologies to keep homes safe. A Canadian construction firm recently built a home made of plastic panels that it says can hold up during a Category 5 hurricane. While plas…
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