Entries in Innovation Hub by Kara Miller
Why do you hate the foods you hate? Turns out, taste might have nothing to do with it. Don Katz explains. Read More...
Students learn better when they’re interested in what they’re learning. That idea is at the center of a way of learning pioneered more than 100 years ago by one rule-breaking woman. Read More...
Put away that bubble wrap and say hello to mushrooms. Ecovative CEO Eben Bayer takes us into the growing world of biomaterials. Read More...
One of the most expensive works of art in American history was painted partly to enlighten the steelworkers of Pittsburgh. This is its surprising story. Read More...
Lynda Weinman recently sold her online education company, Lynda.com, for over a billion dollars. One of the pioneers of online education talks with us about how online courses shape what we learn long after high school and college. Read More...
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 might have helped him be even more of a genius. Read More...
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. Read More...
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. Read More...
When was the first time that humans perceived the world as it really was? Historian and author Laura Snyder says it was the in the 1600s, with the development of microscopes. Read More...
Long before the Internet revolutionized commerce by bringing everything to your door, two men connected hard-working, rural Americans to conveniences and delights that came from thousands of miles away. Read More...
