Fast Company

The FDA is trying to come up with a definition for “natural” foods, but it’s not so easy.

Walk around a local farmers’ market or a big chain like Whole Foods or even Walmart and you’ll be overwhelmed by the sheer variety of “natural” and “healthy” foods. Consumers want foods they believe offer more health benefits and are made without artificial ingredients, and farmers and food manufacturers are happy to sell to them. But how can you trust that all those products are truly “natural” and “healthy”? It’s complicated.

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If corporate training is a drag on the workforce, try focusing on these four game-changing techniques.

From teaching employees the basics of your technology infrastructure to helping them develop new insight and skill sets, training is a necessity in many companies. And while stand-and-deliver instructors in classroom settings make up 46% of training hours, according to a 2015 report by Training magazine, managers are increasingly adopting new formats and methods of training to both improve employee satisfaction and increase effectiveness.

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Despite very few materials, the residents of France’s large and notorious refugee camp are creating truly impressive structures—and even a church.

In these photos of the Calais Jungle—a notoriously terrible refugee camp in France—one thing is conspicuously missing: refugees. Instead of showing people, photographer Marco Tiberio wanted to show where they’re living.

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Area 404 is a 22,000-square-foot lab with a scanning electron microscope, 60,000-PSI of waterjet cutting power, and more giant machines.

If you’re a heavy user of Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram, you’d probably never guess that on the first floor of a building at the social networking giant’s Silicon Valley campus, behind a key-card access door that grants entry only to a select few people, is a scanning electron microscope.

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If you can’t explain your startup to a child, you may not have better luck pitching to investors.

If you can’t explain your business model to kids, then you’re not ready for prime time in front of investors. That’s the idea behind Pitch-a-Kid, a new Austin, Texas-based organization that puts kids in the judge’s seat as they analyze adult entrepreneurs’ pitches and choose the strongest pitch of the bunch.

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Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson teams up with artist Darius Kazemi to create a Twitter bot with a mission—& a personality.

For DeRay Mckesson and his fellow Black Lives Matter activists, Twitter is a double-edged sword.

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The quintessential American sportswear brand is back for its fifth Olympics. Sorry, no berets this time.

The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics is one of the great pageants of our time. Tomorrow night, athletes from every country will take the world stage in outfits that represent their homeland as nearly 1 billion people tune in. And this year, much like every summer and winter Olympics since 2008, Team USA will march out in clothes designed by Ralph Lauren.

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Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size.

Cancer starts small—at the nanometer scale, as DNA, RNA, and proteins develop harmful defects. So cancer detection has been moving down in size—toward “liquid biopsies” that filter blood and other bodily fluids to detect problems in cells or pieces of cells before tumors emerge.

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It costs less than $10,000. It’s made entirely in America. It could change how we move around. But right now, sadly, it doesn’t do much at all to make you want to take it for a spin.

Elio Motors has been working on its three-wheeled car-cum-motorcycle (“autocycle”) since 2009. It plans finally to go into production in 2017 and it’s received 56,000 reservations from people eager to buy it. The company says the road-worthy vehicle will cost just $6,800, and have a highway-MPG of 84, putting it into a market category all its own. In every way, Elio has a good story to tell: a genuine American bootstrapping startup that’s developed a car—a whole car!—from scratch.

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One key to being a good boss is figuring out what type of leader you are, then adjusting your strengths and weaknesses to help the team.

People don’t quit jobs; they quit bosses. So when you’re the leader, your job directly impacts employee retention. While some people are naturally good at managing others, all of us have strengths and weaknesses that can affect our relationships with members of the team.

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