• Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

    Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

    Jun 14, 2021 09:09 PM EST

    ... self-harm, and federal volunteers were ordered to keep out scissors, pencils or even toothbrushes that could be used as a weapon. While girls made origami and braided friendship bracelets, a large number of the children spent the day sleeping, the volunteer said. Some had been there nearly two months ...

  • Courtney Barnett: Sending out 'Empathy Signals'

    Courtney Barnett: Sending out 'Empathy Signals'

    Apr 25, 2020 03:25 PM EST

    ... and I'll only disappoint you Tell me I'm exceptional, I promise to exploit youGive me all your money, and I'll make some origami honey I think you're a joke, but I don't find you very funny I was struck by the singer’s ambivalence about ...

  • 5 parenting tips that are backed by data

    5 parenting tips that are backed by data

    Aug 15, 2019 08:25 PM EST

    ... night: Swaddle your baby for a better night’s rest. If you haven’t been blessed with a hospital nurse’s knack for baby blanket origami, there are different pre-swaddled blankets on the market to pick from that include Velcro or extra lightweight fabric. Oster said that this is ...

  • This poet wants brown girls to know they're worthy of being the hero and the author

    This poet wants brown girls to know they're worthy of being the hero and the author

    Mar 08, 2018 11:20 PM EST

    ... nbsp;                 of tangled tongues sandpaper that’s been origamied into girls. Not worthy of being the hero nor the author. But we were always Medusa’s favorite daughters. Of serpent curls, of hard ...

  • Every child can in the world have a microscope. Here's how.

    Every child can in the world have a microscope. Here's how.

    Aug 31, 2017 10:07 PM EST

    ... not just for the traditional scientist, but every single kid in the world. We have shipped 50,000 of what we call foldscopes. These are origami microscopes that anybody can make. They cost just $1.00 to make. This year we have set a goal to release a million foldscopes ...

  • This electronic pill can send Wi-Fi updates from your tummy for days

    This electronic pill can send Wi-Fi updates from your tummy for days

    Feb 08, 2017 04:27 PM EST

    ... imperil a patient under anesthesia, causing hypothermia, or complicate treatment for a patient with higher risk of developing an infection. Traverso is a maker of origami-style ingestible devices. The devices fit inside a capsule but unfold when they hit the stomach and deliver drugs for long periods of time ...

  • How employers kill worker motivation and what they can do to change

    How employers kill worker motivation and what they can do to change

    Jan 06, 2017 12:08 AM EST

    ... we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money. PAUL SOLMAN: Ariely has highlighted another payoff using, of all things, origami. It's already a little sloppy. DAN ARIELY: Indeed. PAUL SOLMAN: But you have got time constraints, so... DAN ARIELY: I see. You're ...

  • Kerry makes gut-wrenching visit to Hiroshima site of atomic bomb

    Kerry makes gut-wrenching visit to Hiroshima site of atomic bomb

    Apr 11, 2016 12:45 PM EST

    ... presence of about 800 Japanese schoolchildren waving flags of the G7 nations, including that of the United States. They cheered as the ministers departed with origami cranes in their national colors around their necks. Kerry was draped in red, white and blue. Hours afterward, the top American diplomat still seemed ...

  • How an unconventional principal turned around a struggling urban school

    How an unconventional principal turned around a struggling urban school

    Sep 08, 2015 07:58 PM EST

    In the past four years, Principal Gara Field has done more than boost morale to turn around an urban elementary school that has struggled for years with leadership churn and low test scores.

  • Engineers create collapsible battery powered with the help of dirty water

    Engineers create collapsible battery powered with the help of dirty water

    Jun 27, 2015 03:40 PM EST

    Engineers at Binghamton University have created a paper origami biobattery that gets its charge from a drop of dirty water.