Entries in Innovation Hub by Marc Sollinger

There’s a reason why you spent twelve hours mainlining every episode of House of Cards -- your brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality. Cognitive scientist Jim Davies explains the science behind why we laugh, why we cry, and why we binge watch. Read More...

The days of passive consumers are long gone. If advertisers want to engage today’s audiences, they need to create shareable experiences, say Thinkmodo co-founder James Percelay and advertising professor Edward Boches. Read More...

Your HR department may be in for a massive change. But instead of destroying HR, automation could actually save it, says Steve Miranda, Managing Director of Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies. Read More...

The Great Depression, World War II, 9/11 — the New Yorker has published through all of it. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, looks at what the future holds — and why print’s not dead. Read more...

We're embracing our inner nerd here at Innovation Hub, and we want you to geek out with us. Read More...

 
Here are three things to know about this week's show:

1. Sorry, single folks. Even computers are better at flirting than you. Melissa Dahl of New York Magazine shows how scientists taught computers the social cues you never picked up on.

2. Biology and physics classes are way more boring and difficult than they should be. Science educator Ainissa Ramirez tells us what STEM classes need to change, and why teaching the next generation of scientists is so important.

3. Forget every romantic comedy ever. Apparently, most older men aren't actually that interested in dating around. Sociologist Pepper Schwarz and OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder explain what else online dating reveals about us.     

When Yale professor Ainissa Ramirez discovered that few kids understood the science in the world around them, she left academia in order to help fix science education. Read More...

Love may be a battlefield, but Christian Rudder of OkCupid and Pepper Schwartz of Perfect Match think that online dating is changing the entire war. Read More...

 
Here are three things to know about this week's show:

1. You’ll soon be able to purchase coats that shift their color or pattern…while you wear them. At least, that’s what fashion and tech expert Matthew Drinkwater thinks.

2. There’s a neighborhood in China modeled on 19th-century France. It’s part of the “culture of copying" in China — something the U.S. might actually want to do more of.

3. Finishing an article or blog post is a little bit addictive, argues Sarah Marshall of The Wall Street Journal. Smart news organizations, she says, should try harder to produce more ‘finishable content.’ And since you just finished reading this blog post, hopefully she’s right.

We’ve suffered from information overload for years. But Wall Street Journal social media editor Sarah Marshall sees a future with a finishable news experience. Read More...