Tech & Science

HEAR to REAH: Bridging the Gap for the Deaf.

Category: 

Wonder Ndlovu is founder of Mbula Research and Development, a technology-based start-up that focuses on uncovering digital & innovative solutions and bring them to life. He holds a Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation and a Degree in Software Development among others.

read more..

Latest Posts in Tech & Science

A Black Eye for Big Coal

At a time when large corporations have had an unprecedented degree of power to impose themselves on the landscape in the name of jobs, a group of citizens, environmental activists, native tribes and businesses in the Pacific Northwest have dealt a series of stunning blows against development.

     Since the 1990s, a group of large mining companies, railroads and maritime terminal operators have sought to use the Northwest’s...


Keeping packing material out of the waste stream

Marilyn Lauderdale had been working at an IKEA store in Renton, Washington, for 15 years when she transferred to their in-house furniture assembly team.

In her new position, she quickly noticed that cardboard and plastic packing materials were recycled, but other packaging – including copious amounts of expanded polystyrene foam – was not.

An innocent question about whether it could be recycled led her, she says, “down...


A Dirty Business

A Dirty Business: What Ever Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?  It’s been 39 years since Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. On every anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, a new theory emerges about the location of his final remains. Here are just a few of them:

     • Hoffa’s body was put in a 55-gallon steel drum, and carried off in a truck, then buried on the...


The State of Garbage in America

“It’s a smelly, dirty, public health nuisance.”

“It’s a valuable commodity to be traded.”

“It’s a fact of life that will never go away.”

All three of these disparate statements above can be made about garbage, and all three of them are true, especially the last statement. The definition of garbage — or “solid waste,” as it is referred to in the landfill business — changes...


Kathy McShane Shares Secrets to Success

Are women entrepreneurs different from their male counterparts? Do women need a different blueprint to achieve success in business? These critical business concepts and more are set forth in Kathy McShane’s newly released book The Survivor’s Guide for Female Entrepreneurs.

Kathy McShane, widely considered to be an Expert on Female Entrepreneurship, shares her secrets to success in The Survivor’s Guide for...