Spaniard Beatrice Flamini always sought solitude. After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, she decided to spend 500 days in a cave in complete isolation - in order to set a record and mentally prepare for a long journey through the Gobi Desert, Meduza reports. During the experiment...
Basic income (UBI) programs are increasingly capturing the minds of policymakers. But is it really as good as it seems? Vox's Dylan Matthews shared the first results of the world's largest basic income experiment and some of his financial observations. Further -…
45-year-old American billionaire Brian Johnson, who for 6 months transfused himself and his 70-year-old father with the blood of a teenage son in order to rejuvenate, decided to abandon this idea. What happened, told the publication Ukrainska Pravda. The method did not live up to expectations, the man said at home ...
In September, a Florida worker applied for 60 entry-level jobs and received one interview, reports news.yahoo Companies in the United States say they find it difficult to find employees, especially for hourly jobs. Joey Holtz decided to test their claims by filing two ...
TV presenter Chris van Tulleken has set himself the task of following a diet consisting mainly of processed foods (semi-finished products) for a month. What came of this, told the BBC. It is believed that more than half of the energy the British get from food coming from deeply processed ...
Iceland has conducted the world's largest experiment to move to a four-day work week. In the course of the study, the organizers found that reducing working hours did not lead to a loss in productivity, and also made all employees happier. The details of the experiment were reported by the BBC. The experiment began ...
In the works of science fiction writers, one can often find a plot about a group of people living in a space isolated from the rest of the world, who themselves produce everything necessary for a fulfilling life. A similar experiment, the purpose of which was to understand whether people would be able to create "biospheres" on other planets and live in them, was carried out in real conditions: in 1991 ...
Ed Stafford is a former British Army captain, adventurer and traveler. As part of the filming of the documentary "60 Days on the Streets", he decided to experiment: he left his son, wife, a cozy house and became homeless for 2 months. AdMe.ru writes about this. He had to live in the winter without food, money, shelter and find out why people become vagabonds ...
A group of YouTube enthusiasts created an incredibly powerful blue foam "volcano" in their backyard in a chemical reaction that ended unexpectedly: a cloud of foam rose almost to the level of the roof of their house and spilled beyond the deck railings, Insider reports. Enthusiast…
Russian scientist Denis Rebrikov, a biologist at the Scientific Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov, plans to interfere with the DNA of five human embryos using the CRISPR method, BBC writes. He told New Scientist magazine last week that he has ...