Thought Innovation
E-Books Get a Soundtrack
A company called Booktrack Introduces a new kind of e-book. It plays music or sound effects to accompany your reading
August 31, 2011 |
By Randy Rieland
A Cheat Sheet to Help Schools Foster Creativity
Corporate execs say they're looking for independent thinkers, but many schools are stilled geared to assembly lines. Here are ideas to spur imaginative learning
August 22, 2011 |
By Randy Rieland
How Nature Makes Us Smarter
Scientists and inventors borrow from nature to innovate in the burgeoning field of biomimicry. Why not steal ideas from something that's been millions of years in the making?
August 17, 2011 |
By Randy Rieland
Clothes Encounters
Clothing embedded with nanotechnology taps into our growing desire to turn everyday things into electronic gadgets
August 03, 2011 |
By Randy Rieland
The Beer Archaeologist
By analyzing ancient pottery, Patrick McGovern is resurrecting the libations that fueled civilization
August 2011 |
By Abigail Tucker
Me, My Data and I
So I admit I’m bewildered, yet duly impressed by a group of intensely self-quantifies, people who want to know everything about themselves, at least everything that can be expressed in data readouts
July 27, 2011 |
By Randy Rieland
What Defines a Meme?
Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve
May 2011 |
By James Gleick
Ten Unforgettable Web Memes
Cats and failures highlight this list of the memes that have gone mainstream. Which ones did we miss?
April 18, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino, Ryan R. Reed, Jesse Rhodes and Brian Wolly
President Barack Obama: Why I’m Optimistic
Looking ahead to the next 40 years, President Obama writes about our nature as Americans to dream big and solve problems
August 2010 |
By Barack Obama
Art's Bold New Direction
The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum predicts how art will engage us as never before
August 2010 |
By Richard Koshalek
Reading in a Whole New Way
As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change?
August 2010 |
By Kevin Kelly
How Our Brains Make Memories
Surprising new research about the act of remembering may help people with post-traumatic stress disorder
May 2010 |
By Greg Miller
Are Scientists or Moviemakers the Bigger Dodos?
Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
October 30, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
The Player
Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
October 2007 |
By Polly Shulman
Primed for Success
Terence Tao is regarded as first among equals among young mathematicians, but who's counting
October 2007 |
By Dana Mackenzie
The Big Picture
Political historian Jeremi Suri has come up with a new way of looking at the links between the low and the mighty
October 2007 |
By Heather Laroi
Painting the Edge
With an eye for despoiled landscapes, Lisa Sanditz captures the sublime
October 2007 |
By Arthur Lubow
Wild Woman
Playwright Sarah Ruhl speaks softly and carries a big kick
October 2007 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
The Bias Detective
How does prejudice affect people? Psychologist Jennifer Richeson is on the case
October 2007 |
By David Berreby
High Scorer
Composer Nico Muhly wowed them at Carnegie Hall and the New York Public Library
October 2007 |
By Tim Page
