Innovation / Video
Vint Cerf of Google on the Future of the Internet
Vice president of engineering and chief evangelist at Google on the connected world in 2050. Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/vinton-cerf-on-where-the-internet-will-take-us-1128826/
Jay Parkinson on Creating Health Through Happiness
The co-founder of Hello Health says the health care industry has a “huge opportunity” to change the way it communicates with patients
Clay Shirky on Openness in an Online World
The NYU interactive telecommunications professor looks for a balance between open and closed systems, but believes technological threats could close everything down
Charles Ebinger on Real-Time Energy Pricing
The Director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution says we will be in good shape on the energy front by 2050, though real problems may come in …
Viktor Mayer-Schnberger on Engagement Through Technology
The Director of the Information & Innovation Policy Research Center, National University of Singapore hopes technology will make us more empowered, motivated and active
The History of Color Photography
While Levi Hill supposedly invented color photography in the 1850s, it was the Lumiere brothers who devised the first commercially viable photographic process.
Stanley Feder, founder of Simply Sausage, walks us through what it takes to make truly outstanding links.
Collector David Cammack owns three of the 43 remaining cars in existence designed by Preston Tucker, which he puts on display in a secluded museum in Virginia. Editor’s Note: We’re …
Ambushed by a Prehistoric Spider
Using a CT scanner, scientists have created a 3-D model of Cryptomartus hindi
Take an animated tour of the future Giant Magellan Telescope
Artist Abbot Thayer illustrated the prevalence of camouflage in the animal world and advocated using it as a military tactic
Deploying the Wave Energy Buoy
See a prototype of a wave energy buoy bob up and down on the waters surface as researchers from Oregon State University study its efficacy
Through the science of robotics, researchers in California have created a lifelike bust of Albert Einstein to teach others, and themselves, about the breakthroughs made with robots
Watch one of Amelia Earhart’s final takeoffs, July 2, 1937
From soil to soup (Smithsonian.com). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/passion-for-tomatoes.html
For decades, in a tradition imported from Belgium, bowlers in Michigan have rolled their balls at feathers, not pins (Edited and produced by: Roberta Cruger)
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