Our favorite super continent is now our favorite worldwide event. Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro, New York--wherever you are, Pangea Day will be taking place as a glo...
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After seeing the value in providing affordable tools that greatly empowered the reading disabled, social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman was inspired to found a business that utilized technology to ser...
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It sounds a bit mushy and absurd, but in a recent talk, Clay Shirky likens the concept of love as a renewable building material to the Ise Shrine in Japan which is rebuilt -- out of love -- every ...
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If you haven't checked out Design and the Elastic Mind at the Moma yet, head over for a smorgasboard of collaborative and innovative works in a new exhibit that "focuses on designers' ability to g...
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In 2005 an MIT Professor named Nicholas Negroponte launched the grandiose and popular plan to bring technology to the developing world, One Laptop per Child. The program is dedicated to designing ...
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Nicholas Felton spent an average of $9.35 per ride he took in taxis during the year 2007. How do I know this random trivia about a complete stranger? Well, he told me all about it in his "Feltron 200...
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We like ideas, so it's natural we'd like the beta site Idea Blob. The name sounds goopy, but the idea's sticky. Here it is in the words of the Blob its self. Great ideas are generated every day...
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