Breaking Free of the Silicon Valley Bubble
Entrepreneur Brad Feld explains what he looks for in a company, and why he decided to build his life in Boulder, Colorado over the flashier tech hubs of San Francisco and New York.
View ArticleTrumping Evolution
Forget about the Six Million Dollar Man. We already have the technology to become better, stronger, and faster. Academic and businessman Juan Enriquez explains how we’re all going through unnatural...
View ArticleHow Concrete Is Crushing the Earth
You already feel guilty about the car you drive to work, but you might want to start feeling guilty about your workplace too. Reporter Daniel Gross takes a look at why concrete is helping destroy the...
View ArticleCivic Disengagement (And How To Fix It)
Already tired of the 2016 election? Well, you’re not alone. Social scientist Kate Krontiris tells us why Americans don’t really care about civic engagement, and how we can fix that.
View Article5.16.15 Engineering a Community
This week on Innovation Hub, we look at building the physical world — and our communities. Entrepreneur Brad Feld talks about how places outside Silicon Valley and New York might be a better fit for...
View ArticleDIY Diagnoses
Forget pregnancy tests - in the near future, you could diagnose dozens of diseases, from AIDS to cancer, in the comfort of your home. Dr. Eugene Chan and Professor Andrew Ellington discuss what that...
View ArticleHow Blogging's Changed
Before putting every detail of your life online was even a thing, Justin Hall had a blog. The web pioneer reflects on more than 20 years of oversharing, and he imagines the future of our connected lives.
View ArticleSitting Up Straighter, Thanks to Tech
It’s not just your third-grade teacher that’s telling you to sit up straight -- Monisha Perkash has created a little chip that helps improve our posture and health.
View ArticleMore Screens Could Make Us Less Stressed
The Onion had it right: it feels like 90% off our waking hours are spent staring at glowing rectangles. But tech writer Clive Thompson explains how even more screens could help us concentrate.
View Article5.23.15 Getting (Even More) Personal
There’s a fine line between sharing and oversharing. And with our increasingly digital lives, it’s very easy to cross that line. Just think of that time your aunt wrote about her knee surgery on...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Continuous Job Search
Even if you’re pretty happy with the job you have, you still might want to see if there’s anything better. CEO Tom Leung talks about Poachable, his anonymous online talent marketplace that lets you...
View ArticleSinger on an Automated Navy
From unmanned drones to bomb disposal, robots are steadily becoming an ever bigger part of the military. But drones aren’t the only way that automation is changing the way we fight.
View ArticleThe Science of Bad Financial Decisions
Ever wondered why you kept throwing good money after bad at the poker table? Or why people buy cars with super-high interest rates? Richard Thaler, a founding father of behavioral economics, takes us...
View ArticleTechnology and the Future of War
The basic components of human conflict may never change, but the way we fight certainly will. Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and Missy Cummings, director of Duke's Humans...
View Article5.30.15 Self Interest Gets Complicated
We live in a world that's all about self-interest — but the ways to do what's best for us are constantly changing, and often murky. This week, we hear from behavioral economist Richard Thaler about the...
View ArticleFinding Inspiration on Einstein's Lawn
Amanda Gefter used to think science was boring. That was before she debated the meaning of nothing in a Chinese restaurant and snuck into a physics conference with her dad. Gefter reflects on her...
View ArticleHow Einstein Gave Us GPS
Using a physical map to find your way around? That's so, like, ten years ago. Tech writer Hiawatha Bray examines the science and history that gave us GPS — and how we owe some of that to Einstein.
View ArticleBusting Up IQ Myths
We might put Albert Einstein up on a pedestal as the quintessential genius. But author David Shenk and psychologist Elaine Castles argue that the way we've defined intelligence is all wrong.
View ArticleA Century After Relativity, The Einstein We Barely Knew
There was a time Albert Einstein couldn’t get a job teaching high school math. Biographer Walter Isaacson takes a look at Einstein’s remarkable life, and tells us why being an outsider and underdog...
View Article6.06.15 It's All Relative: Einstein's Theory Turns 100
As Einstein’s groundbreaking theory of relativity turns 100, Innovation Hub takes a look at the preeminent genius of the 20th Century. We’ll explain why Einstein was a rebel, how his work continues to...
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