Positive News for curious people.

Have you ever worked so much during the day that you delay your bedtime? Instead of sleeping, you binge on the movies you’ve missed on Netflix, scroll through your social media, or catch up with people you haven’t talked to in a while? Well, there’s a name for that. And it’s called revenge bedtime procrastination. Are you doing it too?

Dr. Nicholas Ledra is solving the enormous textile-waste problem hiding in plain sight. His work at Nuria Scientific points toward a future where the materials inside them can be given a new life.

Every morning at dawn, beachcombers along the North American coastlines are raking up forty tons of the smelly, invasive seaweed known as sargassum. This insane amount of seaweed is a burden to most, but one man saw it as a resource, and what he did with it is inspiring a whole new wave of innovation around the world.