My wife has been persistently lobbying me to invest in gold jewelry. From anniversaries to birthdays to the occasional “just because” moment, she believes gold never goes out of style or decreases in value. And honestly, she’s right about the style part, and arguably about the value. Gold has been a symbol of wealth, power, and beauty for millennia, adored by pharaohs, emperors, and modern-day fashionistas alike. But as someone who tries to live consciously, especially when it comes to environmental sustainability, I had to ask myself, what’s the real cost of that glittering bangle?

Instant noodles are more than just a school's hostel staple or a late-night craving fix. For many around the world, they're a comfort food, a cultural icon, and an affordable meal option. But over the years, they’ve also become a favorite target of food myths. One such claim that refuses to disappear from the internet goes like, "Instant noodles don’t stick together during cooking because they are coated with wax – the same type used in Styrofoam containers.

It all starts so innocently. A child gazes into a pet store tank, wide-eyed at a glimmering orange fish darting between plastic seaweed. For a few dollars, they take home a palm-sized goldfish and drop it into a small bowl, complete with colorful gravel and maybe even a castle. Fast forward two years, and that same “Mr. Bubbles” could be tipping the scales at four pounds, roughly the size of a Chihuahua, and wreaking ecological havoc in a local lake.

Take a moment to count the gadgets around you. Your smartphone, smartwatch, laptop, earbuds, electric toothbrush, etc. Nearly everything rechargeable depends on one humble but powerful mineral: lithium. This silver-white metal is the heartbeat of our digital lives, tucked away in the lithium-ion batteries that power the modern world. From powering your daily TikTok scroll to driving Teslas on highways, lithium is the silent enabler of convenience, connectivity, and carbon-cutting ambition. But while we charge forward into an electric future, we’re quietly accumulating a growing mountain of dead batteries. The question is, what happens to them?

And eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun. It’s gradually expanding, we do at some point have to be a multi-planetary civilization because Earth will be incinerated. When I first read the above statement credited to Elon Musk, my initial reaction was that he must have been misquoted. Then I watched the actual video and discovered that it's indeed true that he said it. A snippet of the video can be accessed here

Scrolling through my feed the other day, I stumbled on a post by one Dr. Stella Immanuel that read like a magic potion recipe:Large amounts of concentrated lemon water dissolve kidney stones fast. Sometimes the solution is so simple, it’s frustrating to think about how much suffering people endure without realizing it.