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Rethink on Parkinson’s Disease treatment makes huge breakthrough
A breakthrough study by the New England Journal of Medicine has found that implanting the treatment ‘deep brain stimulation’ (DBS) in the early days rather than the end (as is usually done), can...
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Giving is good for your heart. Literally.
With all the positive stories on pplkind of late, you’d be forgiven for thinking doing good is good for you. Well, turns out, it is actually. New research has proven what we all secretly...
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Never Stop Playing: how the elderly are using video games to stay young
In my formative years I was a very active child; I ran, jumped and played in the great outdoors, taking advantage of the boundless energy my adolescence afforded me. However upon visiting a friend one...
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The human kind: Why I write for pplkind
“Imagine that you’re asleep, and you then you wake up, you’re not sure where you are, you’re not sure if anyone else is around. What would you probably do first? You would likely look around and say...
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Smile or die: being happy is good for you
Before you switch on the Kardashian (future-speak for ‘TV’), hold on for just one second there pal. Research from America says that having a good old ‘sense of purpose’ is good for our health. So maybe...
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This matters: We’re so close to finding the big, bad, bullying dark matter
Scientists in Europe and the US have announced that we’re even closer to tracking down that spooky “dark matter” we’ve all heard so much about. You know, the magical, mystery, mad stuff that happens to...
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Dream-catchers: Scientists can read your dreams
Scientists in Kyoto, Japan have found a way to use something called ‘magnetic resonance imaging’ to decode night visions of the unconscious mind. In other words, you better not be dreaming about...
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Our next evolution (part 1): voices from the ether
We are living in very interesting times, that are fraught with uncertainties and upheavals. Is the human psyche designed to handle the amount of change the world now undergoes with the mere passing of...
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Our next evolution (part 2) : the rise of the SMART Screen Society.
here comes the new pope, quick lets blind him! In my last post I talked about our renaissance with information (part 1,Voices from the ether); how everything was now within reach.. global news, big...
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Our next evolution (part 3) : Brave New World.
“As long as man has roamed this world, we’ve sought and invented new means to augment our minds and bodies. Evolution is painstakingly slow, but in our DNA is writ of imagination and the will to be...
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The pursuit of happiness: Finding joy in modern times
Happiness is a strange phenomenon. It is the aggregate of all our struggles and the most basic facet of almost all goals. Happiness is a strange phenomenon because every individual measures it...
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This is the speech you wish you’d had at your graduation
If you went to university – and you made it to graduation – chances are you had a graduation ceremony. If not, here’s the graduation 101: you get a musty, black cape that won’t go superhero no matter...
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Amma: The Chronicles of the hugging Saint
Gurus emerged thousands of years ago in India as learned explainers of the Upanishads, philosophical teachings underpinning the Hindu religion. And today, the tradition is still strong in India....
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This ‘jaw-dropping’ DNA breakthrough could cure cancer and HIV
This week scientists in America reached a breakthrough that could revolutionize medical science, and not only because it has been described by one of the Nobel scientists as “absolutely huge” and...
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Bad luck Jay Z: Young people want celebrities and brands to do social good,...
New research shows that young people are losing trust in people like Jay Z, because they’re ‘not sure what he stands for’ any more. Fair point, kids. Jay Z recently gave away a load of his music to...
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Humans are so smart that we’ve just invented computers that act like our own...
Apparently keen to squeeze in as many 2013 achievements as possible, scientists have just invented computers that act like brains. Scary, but amazing too, considering we pretty much only just invented...
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25 events that show 2013 was the greatest year in history for human progress
As we celebrate the start of a new year (and our 1st birthday!) here at pplkind, it makes sense to look back at how much progress we humans have made this year. And while so many terrible events took...
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Enrol in the greenest, coolest school on the planet this summer
Forget roads, energy and money. Without people, we got nothin’. It’s strange to think of it that way, but the most important kind of investment that any economy makes is in its own people – what...
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Students from 19 countries demand economics teaching shake-up for a better world
Students from 19 countries demand a much-needed shake-up of economics lessons, to better support food security, climate change and a safer future. Writing in an open letter for AlertNet, the smart...
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Brazilian kids learning English by Skyping retired, lonely Americans
Teenagers and old people aren’t the obvious pairing you’d expect to make waves in the positive progress of humankind. But it turns out they’re a dream combo. Young people in Brazil who want to learn...
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