Last week on the Just Energy blog, we shared our favorite ideas for teaching your children how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle at home. Now it’s time to take those lessons into the community with environmental – related volunteer opportunities created especially for kids. Here are four great community …
Read More »ESA: Time to Get Serious About Removing Space Junk
Humanity has been shooting things into space for a few decades now, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it. What we haven’t gotten so good at is bringing things back down. Scientists have been sounding the alarm about the buildup of space junk for years, a point that was reinforced …
Read More »8 Yoga Poses to Help Ease Lower Back Pain
Photo courtesy of Emily Adams / Bend Bloom Yoga Herniated disks, pinched nerves, strained muscles, poor posture — lower back pain can stem from many places. In fact, roughly 80 percent of adults will experience back aches at some point in their lives and roughly one-third of adults have complained …
Read More »New Cassini Image Shows Earth and Moon between Saturn’s Rings
This view from NASA’s Cassini orbiter shows Earth and its only natural satellite as points of light between the icy rings of the gas giant Saturn. Cassini captured this view of Earth and the Moon on April 12. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute. Cassini captured this …
Read More »Soccer coach Arlan Vomhof celebrates 400th year of collective coaching
In fact, it was a milestone; head soccer coach Arlan Vomhof held his 400th collective victory in the palm of his hand. In his time coaching the Topeka Seaman boys and girls soccer team, Vomhof racked up around 50 victories. Vomhof said it felt strange to have reached the milestone …
Read More »Automated balls and strikes in MLB, We don’t think so
Driving into work Saturday morning, a voice on the radio bemoaned some balls and strikes calls in Friday night’s Cubs-Reds game. a discussion of whether Major League Baseball should go to an automated system for calling balls and strikes. We accept that the game is played by human beings who, …
Read More »Breathe New Life Into Your Home With These Indoor Plants
Photo: summersvenson on Instagram Plants are a quick and easy way to brighten up a room. Placing some greens on a bookshelf or coffee table can add some colour and life to a space. For interior design lovers who reside in metropolian areas and have limited access to greenhouses or backyard gardens, …
Read More »This Week in Space: Metal on Mars, Hydrogen Inside Enceladus, and a Meteoric Near-Miss
We didn’t get pasted by that asteroid that sailed through Wednesday, which is arguably a good thing. Discovered in 2014, it was due to pass by Earth at a close but safe distance, which it won’t do again for another 500 years. Scientists all over the world took the opportunity …
Read More »18 Protein Shake Recipes That Taste Just Like Dessert
Pies, cakes, cookies and ice cream are tempting and delicious desserts. Unfortunately, more often than not they’re packed with excess fat and loads of sugar. (Not to mention they take a ton of time to make from scratch.) But sip on this: We’ve got 18 ways to satisfy your sweet …
Read More »Terry Talkin’ why Brock Osweiler can help
The Cleveland Browns added Brock Osweiler’s $16 million guaranteed salary for this season as the price to acquire a 2018 second-round draft pick from the Houston Texans. I keep going back to the Browns averaging three starting quarterbacks a season since 2010. Let Hue Jackson decide between Kessler and Osweiler …
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