Laura Pike Seeley

Living in an age of digital distraction has wreaked havoc on our brains—but there’s much we can do to restore our tech–life balance.

Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. The council was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help solve the problem. They knew enough of techknowspeak to be able to converse with the wizards and to read and understand their parchments. They also had travelled around the land; they knew the serfs... See more

The idea is to make urban areas less dependent on cars as part of the fight against climate change. The 15-minute city framework emphasizes bringing the essentials of daily life — work, entertainment, schools and green space — within a short walk or bicycle ride from home, reducing vehicle use and dramatically cutting carbon and pollution... See more

The town is hoping to avoid repeating the patterns of other suburbs in the region. “Strip malls, subdivisions, big-box stores, all that stuff we see all over North America,” says Jerschow. “The vision for the Orbit was about rethinking that approach.”

“Worry can become like a bad habit of the mind. The rule of neuroplasticity—that our brain keeps changing based on our repeated activity—says that whatever we do a lot we will get better at. So if we worry a lot, we will get really good at worrying.” In other words, once you start worrying about something, it can be hard to stop.