Entries in Innovation Hub by Mary Dooe and Genevieve Gilson

 
You'll want to know these three things about this week's show:

1. We're all guinea pigs in an ongoing political experiment. The 2016 elections may seem far away, but behind the scenes, techies are figuring out how to slice and dice data that will target YOU.

2. Women might not want to "lean in" quite as much as they thought. It's all well and good to chant the mantra, but studies show that there could be negative repercussions in the workplace for women who are perceived as too aggressive.

3. You'll need a fork and knife to eat the soup of the future. Thanks to edible, fruit-like skins, those cans and plastic containers might be a thing of the past.

 
These are the three things you need to know about this week's show:

1. We aren't missing anything in a world without Walter Cronkite. At least that's what media theorist Clay Shirky thinks.

2. Kids stopped using abbreviations in texting and emailing when their parents started. Linguist David Crystal says that the age of the smartphone isn't changing us as much as we think.

3. Forget sitting down to a meal. Soy shakes may be your future - which concerns Ruth Reichl.

Failure is more important than ever, and it’s also much cheaper, according to MIT’s Joi Ito. He explains how he succeeded in academia despite never finishing college - and why our education system needs a complete overhaul. Read More...

Nerds may be America’s greatest resource, but budding nerds are frequently ostracized. David Anderegg, author of “Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America,” argues that our future depends on rethinking nerdiness. Read More...

Three talking points for Mother's Day brunch:

1. Research shows that babies born to mothers who ate highly processed foods during pregnancy, have a preference for salty, sugary foods later in life.

2. Why aren't women more well- represented at Facebook, Google and other high-flying tech companies? One college president says we isolate computer science from other subjects; instead, we may want to integrate it with sciences, like biology, or even emphasize its connection to foreign languages. (After all, isn't Java or C++ pretty much a foreign language to most of us?)

3. A good way to sell creams, according to Estée Lauder, is to hold a customer by her right hand. This creates a personal connection - and makes it hard for people to get up and walk away. (Plus, most people are right handed, making it more likely they will look at and smell their right hand later in the day.)

Three Things You Need to Know about the Changing Workplace

1. Your potential employer will probably ask you to take online tests. Warning: They may be tracking the browser you use to take the test. Apparently, downloading Firefox or Chrome shows more initiative and tech savvy than plain old Internet Explorer.

2. You should stop thinking of yourself as a person with a job, or even a career. In the future, we'll be income entrepreneurs. You may ditch your day job, write a quick freelance article, set up an Air BnB account, and hop into your car for a few hours as a Lyft driver.

3. Working 32 hours a week is just as good – if not better — as working 40 hours. If your work time is a scarce resource, you'll make the most of it, the same way we make the most of land or water when it is scarce.