Having a mouth full of metal braces for years at a time can be embarrassing. In fact, 92% of teens feel like metal braces keep them from fitting in with their classmates and peers. Even though braces will be good for children in the long term, many parents hesitate to embrace a treatment that could […]
Metropolitan Transit Authority officials will meet this week to decide on a new program that would screen all bus, train, and subway operators for sleep apnea. The testing would cost the MTA an estimated $7.5 million over the next five years to administer tests to its nearly 20,000 drivers, conductors, and engineers, but in light […]
Unlike California’s booming tech industry, which has its own home base in Silicon Valley, New York’s technology community has led a mainly nomadic existence. That, however, is about to change as a new 254,000-square-foot facility is in the works and expected to break ground in 2018. This massive workspace, dubbed “14th @ Irving,” will act […]
While over 90% of adopted children over the age of five have positive feelings about their adoption, older adoptees haven’t always had the same experience. Considering the fact that the average age of retirement is 63, the majority of adopted retirees in New Jersey have had to go through the whole of their adult lives […]
Approximately 86,004 real estate brokerage firms are operating in the U.S. today, and with so much competition, they sometimes have to get a little creative. Prominent New York real estate agency Douglas Elliman, for instance, is advertising the U.S. Secret Service as a hot new “amenity” at Trump Tower in an attempt to lure clients […]
As technology advances each year, researchers are constantly looking to answer some of life’s most trying questions. Questions like is there life on Mars, how to successfully reach the bottom of the ocean, and the age-old question: how can we live longer. There have been numerous studies and experiments that have attempted to answer the […]
There have been many controversies surrounding nuclear energy use in New York State, and most recently, a state court ruling has decided that Governor Cuomo has the ability to deny the re-licensing of a plant near New York City. Entergy Nuclear’s Indian Point nuclear plant is located 50 miles up the Hudson river from New […]
The legal marijuana industry, which celebrated several monumental victories during the election, is now fearful. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has expressed fierce opposition to marijuana, is now being considered as a pick for attorney general. Approximately 58% of Americans now support marijuana legalization, as is evident by the victories celebrated in […]
Many of us might put off unclogging a drain or will ignore a leaky faucet until fixing it becomes convenient. But that little drip can make a big difference in our monthly water bills. In fact, fixing easily corrected household water leaks can save homeowners around 10% on their bills. When household leaks are ignored, […]
Throughout this past year, there have been a shockingly high amount of construction site deaths throughout the city, and city officials are demanding to know why. These politicians and labor groups are looking to classify these deaths in order to determine if they happen more often at union or non-union job sites. Lately there has […]