Kara Miller
Amanda Gefter used to think science was boring. That was before she debated the meaning of nothing in a Chinese restaurant and snuck into a physics conference with her dad. Gefter reflects on her unusual journey towards writing about science. Read More...
There’s a fine line between sharing and oversharing. And here at Innovation Hub, we’re all about sharing, including sharing some interviews that touch on oversharing. Read More...
The Internet connects us, gives us access to approximately one billion cute cat videos, and lets us buy whatever we could want from Amazon. But entrepreneur Andrew Keen thinks the Internet isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and he shows us the deep loneliness and inequality resulting from our digital lives. Read More...
1. Your Netflix addiction might be hurting the planet. Social scientist Toby Miller tells us the environmental consequences of our digital infatuations.
2. When they first saw the potato, European farmers thought it looked like a leprosy patient. Professor Ruth DeFries gives us a peek at the surprising ways food has shaped our civilization.
3. Imagine talking to your next-door neighbor about your deepest issues. Mental health expert Vikram Patel and UNESCO's Jordan Naidoo explain how training more ordinary people to be health and education workers could be a solution to the drastic shortage of teachers and doctors around the globe.
Printing everything out seems so wasteful, but is sending an email any better? Social scientist Toby Miller looks at the real environmental consequences of our digital lives. Read More...
The world doesn’t have nearly enough teachers or doctors to meet its growing demand. Mental health expert Vikram Patel and UNESCO's Jordan Naidoo tell us about ingenious new solutions to address these serious problems. Read More...
Hunger isn’t just driving you to get that double bacon cheeseburger at Five Guys - it’s also been a main force behind all of civilization. Columbia's Ruth DeFries talks about the unexpected ways our quest for food has shaped, and is still shaping, the world we live in. Read More...
Three things you should learn:
1. Abraham Lincoln should get credit for the transcontinental railroad. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers makes the case for why government needs to support innovation today. Plus, he looks back ten years to the firestorm surrounding his comments about women in science.
2. If the cloud were a country, it would consume more energy than Japan. Author Andrew Winston tells us why an eco-friendly revolution might not come from Silicon Valley.
3. One of the most revolutionary inventions in the history of the world was... the camel. William Bernstein talks about the surprising evolution of trade, and how it’s changed everything from math to guns.
Ordering those six pairs of Game of Thrones-themed socks from Amazon and having them sent straight to your door sure is convenient, but what does it mean for the world we live in? Engineering professor Anne Goodchild talks about the new delivery economy, and how it’s going to affect the environment. Read More...
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers gives a candid conversation about why we aren’t funding science the way we need to, what’s wrong with our education system, and how his views on women in tech have changed since those controversial comments ten years ago. Read More...
