Roam Fitness In the past, getting a workout in the airport meant sprinting to the terminal while carrying an awkward piece of luggage and weaving between traveling families. You arrived at the terminal sweaty and stressed before sitting in an uncomfortable seat for hours. Roam Fitness founders Ty Manegold and…

You woke up two hours before you had to leave for work and decided to go for a run. But then, well, it couldn’t hurt to check your email while putting on your running shoes, could it? Maybe you could tap out a quick response or two. After your run…

The Flint water crisis reminded most Americans of how important clean drinking water is, but Flint was also a disastrous outlier. Even for people not affected by the crisis in Flint, however, it raised an unsettling question: How safe is the average glass of tap water? …

To make a real difference, think policies, not thought training. In April, a Starbucks manager in Philadelphia called the police on two black men sitting peacefully inside a coffee shop. The culprit, according to Starbucks’ CEO and the city’s mayor, was implicit bias — subconscious thought that can influence behavior…

Almost nobody leaves the dentist feeling confident about their oral hygiene routine. You can brush and floss all you want, but you’ll probably go home with a bunch of new pointers swirling around in your head: You brush too hard. You’re using the wrong toothpaste. You should sleep with a…

Prescilla du Preez/Unsplash Loggers haul lumber. Miners swing pickaxes. Carpenters hammer nails. Your average modern worker, meanwhile, wields a less intimidating device: their phone. And just like manual labor can cause sore shoulders and bad knees, office workers can develop damaged thumbs from texting and emailing on their phones. The…

The AirFlow Starship will drive from California to Florida. Drivers have complained for decades about trucks on the road. They go too slow. They take up too much space. They’re scary to pass. But the most unsettling aspect of trucks goes beyond what drivers can see: their environmental impact. Although…

Spencer Platt | Getty Images McDonald’s is rolling out paper straws across its 1,300 UK locations in May, but environmental activists say consumers make a better decision when not using a straw at all. An environmental turning point is lurking in your drink. That’s the argument championed by activists fighting…

Rossy Vargas runs her own company, Clean & Green. Rossy Vargas has worked with SurveyMonkey since 2011. She has followed the company that provides free, customizable surveys through moves, and she has worked closely with the company leadership as the start-up has grown to a valuation of $2 billion. “To…