Caretaking

How Is Plastic Harming Our Bodies and Our Oceans?

It is estimated that the average person consumes approximately 5 grams of plastic every week, which is the amount found in a credit card.

When COVID-19 Brings Depression

Ellie Canfield

There are days when it is hard to get out of bed. When you feel like all the energy has drained out of your body. You know that when you

Kids, Kindness, and Coding

Nikki Diefenbach

Although there are many activities that can teach children how to solve problems and play nice, why not try something new? It should be assumed that most jobs in the

Throwaway Culture

Alan L. Johnson

Sustainable Brands recently published a piece by Carmen Ene, CEO of 3 Step IT, based in Helsinki, Finland. In the article, “3 Top Sustainability Issues in 2019 and How to Address Them,” Ene

There are the heartwarming stories. Like Stewie, the robot horse created by senior mechanical engineering students at Rice University. Stewie was created to provide hippotherapy, the use of horseback riding as

Reconciliation for British Columbia’s Indigenous Peoples Through Tech Equality

Nikki Diefenbach

Indigenous communities across Canada face systemic exclusion from digital and connected technologies; some are stuck with dial-up or no internet access at all. They have been treated as less than

Data for Good: Helping Over 800 Foster Kids Eligible for Adoption in Florida

Nikki Diefenbach

Persons interested in adopting a foster child in Florida can now register for Family-Match, a revolutionary adoption matching site that utilizes algorithms similar to online dating sites. From their website: “Family-Match

Don’t Fear the Reaper: The Stewardship of Death

Nikki Diefenbach

When everyone’s whole life is a near-death experience, why is it so hard to talk about end-of-life planning? Friends and family members who have lost someone close to them should

For Science! Intrepid Gamer Community Discovers Six New Neuron Types

Nikki Diefenbach

Princeton University’s innovative Seung Lab has combined the strength of crowdsourcing and the gamer community to make breakthrough discoveries and create vast troves of information about how ganglion cells work. From the Eyewire

New VR Tech Tackles Inclusion

Nikki Diefenbach

The Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is coming up in May and I look forward to it every year. It spotlights the best tech that

When Jesus Doesn’t Answer

September 29, 2020 / Adoration

One of the hardest areas of our Christian walk is faith and trust in Jesus in the hard times. Those times where we want to hear the audible voice of God. We wish we could talk to Jesus just like we talk to our best friend. Jesus is supposed to be our best friend. Why doesn’t he talk back? Is he really God at all? If he is, why is he so silent? Where is he?