Awareness

Today is National Endangered Species Day, a day to recognize why wildlife conservation is important and what can be done to help prevent threatened species from extinction. In 2006, U.S. Congress officially made the third Friday in May a day…Read More

The age-old pastime of sitting in the grass and looking to the sky, picking out the clouds that look like a ship with full sails or an elephant or a dolphin, is a pleasant game of imagination. But when I…Read More

The coronavirus has dramatically halted so much of our ‘normal’ lives: dropping the kids of at school, going out for dinner, going into the office, going to the doctor, shaking hands, hugging, even just walking outside. It has also had…Read More

With the global virus claiming headlines across the world, other crises have been sidelined, including the massive bushfires that threatened Australia starting in September 2019. In honor of Hug an Aussie Day yesterday, we’re taking a look at the latest…Read More

This month the U.S. is celebrating the largest literary celebration in the world, National Poetry Month! Begun by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this month is to spread awareness about the important role that poets and poetry play…Read More

Today is March 23rd. With many of us in quarantine and almost entirely detached from the rest of the world barring when we remote call into work or classes, it’s easy to forget what day it is, so I am…Read More

March is Save Your Vision Month and we wanted to do our part by bringing to everyone’s attention the importance of more frequent visits to the optometrist. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 2.2 billion people in…Read More

Image: Ecns.cn In times of distress like we are currently experiencing on a global scale, it’s hard to think about anything else but our health and the health of our loved ones. Reflecting on that, we thought about some things…Read More

Source: CNBC Do you ever wonder about what goes on in the inner-workings of brilliant minds? Netflix’s Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, seeks to unveil just this, delving into Gates’ mind by uncovering details of his upbringing, his character-defining…Read More

Five years ago today, the world celebrated the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Begun by the United Nations in 2015, this day of public awareness aims to address the unequal access women and girls have to STEM-related…Read More