Blog: 2011
Are there designers focusing on what we WILL need instead of what we want right now? When we head off to our dream vacation in the future what will take the place of the Griswald Family Truckster? more...
Our featured expert Dr. Neal Mayerson shares his perspective on a very though provoking question. Dr. Mayerson is an innovator who is active in the fields of psychology, business, and philanthropy. He helped launch the new scientific field of Positive Psychology by founding the not-for-profit organization, Values In Action (VIA) Institute on Character. Read more...
Evolution just keeps surprising us. Scientists just recently believed they have proven that ancient fish carried the sequences or ”switches” – the instructions if you will that govern the timing and development of certain gene activity – that would tell their later descendants how to grow limbs or digits.
When NASA shuttered the Space Shuttle program earlier this year, for many it seemed like a light had gone out of America’s quest for interstellar exploration. Don’t tell that to the group of astrophysicists, scientists, engineers, students, sci-fi writers and members of the public gathered at the recent DARPA 100 Year Starship Symposium in Orlando. For them, the idea of a journey into deep space is just beginning.
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