The Profits of Nonprofits
“Technology is way advanced, and it’s the business models that are lagging way behind, limiting what social entrepreneurs are able to accomplish,” says Victoria Hale, founder of two nonprofit pharmaceutical […]
Jimmy Wales on Leadership
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales talks about leadership at the Washington Post. Wikipedia is an example of the internet at it’s best. From the contribution of volunteers, and small infrastructure technological infrastructure, […]
Everyday Heroes
No man knows the nature of evil like Dr. Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, he transformed college students into brutal guards and traumatized prisoners in the horrific Stanford Prison Experiment. The […]
Collective Intelligence in Small Teams
No matter how smart you are, you can’t fix the problems of the world by yourself. Teamwork is the order of the day, and a new study by MIT suggests […]
Escape from Spiderhead
Science fiction can tell us a great deal about the future because it asks us to think with all of our faculties, not just about the nuts and bolts of […]
Year of the Leak
2010 is the year of the leak. From the Afghanistan and Iraq war diaries, to Cablegate, and the upcoming revelations about Bank of America, the website Wikileaks has driven the […]
Data Visualization for Better Government
If you live in one of more than 300 American cities, you may already be familiar with the 311 service. But 311 can do more than fix potholes, or get […]
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
What would happen if you attacked poverty with a culture transplant? Take a needy third-world country, and have them voluntary cede a piece of land to, say, the Canadians, where their laws and […]
A RotaVirus Vaccine’s Remarkable Impact
American medical research making a big difference against a disease that hit Nicaragua’s children hard. We defy you to watch this video without reaching for the tissues. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/video-gallery.aspx#video=/livingproofproject/Pages/vaccine-remarkable-impact.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true
What Synthetic Life Means
We have been getting a lot of questions about the meaning of Craig Venter’s accomplishment, creating self-replicating life, more or less. Joel’s been responding — this is like the creation […]