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December 12, 2025

How to battle boredom at work

Casher Belinda, University of Notre Dame - Though neuroscience suggests that boredom can be good for us, we all try to avoid it. Even the most exciting jobs in the world — astronaut,...

Green Revolution: Israel’s Eco-Innovation Locks into the Road to a Greener Planet

By Eitan Barak ~ Over the Negev desert line, solar panels glint in the sunlight like lakes silently transforming light to life. Tel Aviv and Haifa laboratory cubicles are the epicenter of young engineers...

From Desert to Oasis: How Israel’s Water Conservation Initiatives Resound Internationally

By Yael Ben-David ~ Where deserts previously towered as a threat for dry climates and unpredictable rains, Israel has turned the dictum on its head: it has fashioned scarcity into means to irrigate surfeit. Through advancements in water desalination, water-conserving irrigation, and green recycling, Israel has turned its natural limitations the water-saving model for the world. What was needed became a clarion call to the nation—a culture of innovation that pinches pennies on every ounce. A Thirst for Innovation Since Israel's inception, all the way back to 1948 when it was founded, its survival had been doubtful at least partly because it was entirely open to aridity. It's largely a half-arid country,...

From Dhows to Bytes: Kuwait’s Cultural Evolution With Technology and Innovation

Modern technological progress is constantly redrawing the world's countries as the key to 21st-century growth and new-age modernity. In the Kuwaiti situation, such growth...

Healing Waters: Cyprus Rides Ancient Springs to Contemporary Wellness Tourism

By Andreas Georgiou Stavrou ~ TROODOS MOUNTAINS, CYPRUS — Deep beneath the topographical plateaus of the rugged Troodos summits, villages like Kalopanayiotis are restoring ancient sulphur springs to destination spa...

Green Revolution: Israel’s Eco-Innovation Locks into the Road to a Greener Planet

By Eitan Barak ~ Over the Negev desert line, solar panels glint in the sunlight like lakes silently transforming light to life. Tel Aviv and Haifa laboratory cubicles are the epicenter of young engineers whizzing by models purifying air, purifying water, and fueling cars on wasted food. Galilee wasteland is where reforestation rebirths life in barren hills. Half the size of...

Green Shoots of Growth: Iran’s Eco-Economy Set to Open the Doors to Sustainable Futures

By Irna Mehran ~ It is when fruits and vegetables grown organically substitute solar panels that Iran's eco-economy is observed with optimistic anticipation everywhere in the world In Iran's soil, in the warm glow of...

Olive Roots, Worldly Reach: Old Farming Methods Discover New Markets

By Andreas Georgiou Kyriacou ~ NICOSIA, CYPRUS — Under Cyprus's warm Mediterranean sun, the island's ancient traditions of olive, carob,...