Entries in Innovation Hub by Kara Miller and Kinne Chapin

Are we facing a lack of imagination? We speak to Dr. Roberta Ness, author of “Genius Unmasked” and “Innovation Generation,” about the creativity of geniuses. Read more...

Is there an upside to being overweight? Dr. Katherine Flegal, senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks about the pros and cons of a few extra pounds. Read more...

Think about your high school. No matter what city or town it was in, it likely grouped students by age. And offered an eerily similar menu of subjects — biology, math, history, Spanish — which met for 45 minutes or an hour. But why? Sal Khan has been asking some tough questions about education, and he's bent on re-inventing our system, one student at a time. Read more...

Seth Godin is a fantastically successful entrepreneur who — in his own words — has been thrown out of offices, looked at like he’s crazy, and generally refused to follow the crowd. It’s the personal history you might expect from someone whose latest book, “The Icarus Deception,” argues that those who don’t innovate and think creatively will be left behind by the Internet generation. In 1998, Yahoo paid $30 million for the marketing company Godin started on a shoestring and made him a Vice President. But Godin soon left Yahoo, wrote bestselling books about the new innovation economy and spoke at companies like Disney, Amazon, and Google — and he wants American education to encourage similar risks.  

Summer heat got you down? We’ve got just the thing to revive you — our tech guru Ben Saren shared his list of great gear to keep you going through the dog days of August. Expect your shopping urge to be revived by the end of the list. 

If you were going to rank companies based on innovation, rather than size or net worth, where would you start? Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator's DNA and Forbes' Most Innovative Companies and professor at INSEAD, shares his methodology. Read More...

What will life be like in 2100? We ask famed physicist Michio Kaku, a professor at the City University of New York and author of  The Physics of the Future. Read More...

Humanitarian doctor Paul Farmer explains how global health is rooted in community. Read More...

From soccer games to corporate boardrooms, what helps us win? Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, bestselling authors of Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing investigate the art of competition. Read More...