Over-consumption of sugar has become a pandemic. Sabine and Marco Orbello, founders of Puricious Health Coaching, started a movement against sugar in order to raise awareness for how sugar impacts our health and well-being. Their motto: a sweet life with less sugar. The Dutch-Italian couple offer this week a free Sugar
Month: June 2017
10 weird products you can buy on Ali Express
China is notorious for selling weird gadgets online. We browsed the website Ali Express for the weirdest things we could find. Here are ten of them. A geiger counter to check the radio-activity of your television, microwave and cat! Every household should have one. This umbrella protects you against rain, darkness and
Is coconut oil unhealthy?
10 Strange Toys’R’Us Items
Ticket to Mars, anyone?
For years the Californian company SpaceX has a fascinating colony plan. Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of the company presented last year a plan to build a million-person city on the neighbor planet Mars. The reusable ITS spaceship is still under development, but when it's finished it could carry
China launches X-ray satellite
China successfully launched the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), an X-ray satellite from the Gobi Desert. The satellite is a telescope that will search the sky for black holes and neutron stars and other energetic phenomena. The satellite orbits 550 kilometers (342 miles) above our planet. We don't have to be
Jupiter is the oldest planet in our solar system
An international group of scientists confirmed the predictions that Jupiter is not only the largest planet in our solar system, but also the oldest one. The scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Institut fur Planetologie at the University of Munster had to find a way to determine
Undiscovered Diaries of the Holocaust
The diary of Anne Frank is not the only diary of its kind. Many war victims wrote about their daily experiences during the Second World War. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum started a Kickstarter project to make undiscovered diaries of Holocaust victims and survivors available to everyone. They want to catalog,
Going Dutch: The Netherlands vs. the United States of America
Our editor Kinna McInroe visited the Netherlands in 2012. For the Dutch website Freedutch.nl she wrote this blog about some differences between the Netherlands and the USA. I recently moved abroad to the Netherlands from the United States. I don’t know that one could say that one country is better than
