Mike Johns: Healthcare's New Home: Everywhere
While you can argue the actual number of wrinkles on her body, it’s more interesting to consider how Calment lived so far beyond average life expectancy when the vast majority of human lives are cut short by disease.
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Robert D. Atkinson: Driving Economic Evolution
Uncertain Waters Ahead for Unmanned Ships
Driverless transport seems poised to disrupt.
Amazon and pizza companies are conducting early tests to use airborne drones for bringing packages to customers’ doors. Google and others are building autonomous cars that don’t take sick days or get paid by the hour. Trucking analysts, meanwhile, anticipate the day when convoys of robotic semis haul freight over highways.
Kari Reidy: Growing Your Lemonade Stand: Exporting Drives Sales and Innovation
You would go to the supermarket with your parents to buy the ingredients, rush home to the kitchen with your siblings to mix everything up, create your own lemonade stand sign, and then head out to the end of your driveway / sidewalk to offer neighbors a cup of watered-down lemonade for 25 cents. While 25 cents per cup wasn’t the greatest profit margin, you still felt the most successful entrepreneur in the world!
Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Global Health Innovation at Work — A New Approach to Cancer Screening
But for those of us working in the field of global health, innovation is the driving force behind transformational change that can propel the most promising solutions to the world’s relentless health challenges.
Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Change May be Hard, but Failure Stinks
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Thinner, Lighter, Stiffer, Stronger: Next Gen Jet Engine Fan Blades Use Carbon Super Material
Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.
In the age of Big Data, visualization tools are vital. With a single glance at a graphic display, a human being can recognize patterns that a computer might fail to find even after hours of analysis.
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Grayson Brulte: Moving Towards a Frictionless Payment Experience
When Technology Becomes Techno: DJ Matthew Dear Crafts Beats from the Sounds of Big Machines
Drop
Verb: To let or make something fall vertically.
Noun (musical): A switch in the rhythm or bass line following a long crescendo. A musical climax.
The industrial world buzzes, whirs, thrums and beeps – sometimes audibly, at other times just out of the range of human hearing. For most of us, these noises are the background track of the modern world, but for DJ and musician Matthew Dear, there’s music in the science.