Month: January 2021

Oolong Tea May Help Shed Pounds While You Sleep

Data from Japan show drinking oolong tea may help your body burn fat, independent of the effects of caffeine. Around the world, tea is one of the most popular beverages, second only to water. In popularity, 84 percent of tea consumed is black; 15 percent is green; and the remaining 1 percent is split between…


Get Fit Now, and You’ll Remember It Down the Road

Exercise is good for you, but it might do more than you think. New research suggests that deciding to get fit today may help your brain well into the future. Brain age is a growing concern for people reaching middle age and beyond. You may even be expecting to experience memory loss, dementia, or other…


Cladding Ban on Buildings Has Come Into Effect in Victoria

A ban on high-risk cladding on new multi-storey buildings has come into effect in Victoria, with non-compliant builders facing fines of up to $400,000. The ban applies to flammable aluminium composite panels and rendered expanded polystyrene being used as external wall cladding on all future developments. Planning Minister Richard Wynne on February 1 said the…


How Engineering Can Help Reimagine Public Health Care

Of the many things that COVID-19 has made abundantly clear to us, surely one of them is a newfound realization that public health has become increasingly complex. Understanding the challenges to public health—that is, the task of guarding the well-being of the U.S. population—is more essential now than ever. As an engineer, design futurist, and graduate program director,…


Video: Jeff Carlson Explains the GameStop Short Squeeze and Why Government Should Not Intervene

Recently, small investors organized online to buy large amounts of GameStop stock and caused billions in losses to Wall Street hedge funds looking to short that stock and benefit from its declining price. GameStop had been sinking for years. But in January of this year, prices soared to over $300 a share. On January 28,…


Australian COVID Vaccine Program Receives $1.9 Billion Boost

Almost $2 billion will be spent equipping hospitals and other health centres to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Prime Minister Scott Morrison will make the funding commitment during a major speech to the National Press Club in Canberra on Feb. 1. Morrison says vaccinating 26 million Australians by the end of the year will be one of…


Australian COVID Vaccine Program Receives $1.9B Boost

Almost $2 billion will be spent equipping hospitals and other health centres to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Prime Minister Scott Morrison will make the funding commitment during a major speech to the National Press Club in Canberra on February 1. Morrison says vaccinating 26 million Australians by the end of the year will be one of…


Burmese Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Detained: Ruling Party Spokesman

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy (NLD) said on Monday. The move comes after days of escalating tension between the civilian government and the powerful military that stirred fears of…


Nonprofit Fundraiser Sues Connecticut Over Burdensome, Invasive Regulations

A West Virginia-based nonprofit fundraiser has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Connecticut over that state’s unusually burdensome rules that require him to tell state officials what he is planning to say to prospective donors a full 20 days in advance of donor contact. The lawsuit, Kissel v. Seagull, was filed Jan. 31 in federal…


RCMP Officer in B.C. Suspended During Criminal Investigation and Internal Probe

SURREY, B.C.—An officer with the RCMP detachment in Surrey, B.C., has been suspended amid a criminal investigation that’s expected to lead to formal charges. RCMP spokeswoman Dawn Roberts says the Mountie was arrested last week and released, noting an internal code-of-conduct investigation is also underway. She says the officer was still within a two-year probationary…