Today, thanks to Facebook and other social media, many folks are more likely to get their news from friends in the social networking sense of that word, than from traditional sources.READ»
The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»
"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.READ»
This emerging generation of designers wants to do more than create handsome and functional products. It’s out to protect the environment, improve health, reform education, and empower communities.READ»
BBC.com originally forwarded visitors to BBC.co.uk, but before long, the British news service will have a home away from home in the U.S. Launching soon, BBC.com is aimed at expanding its American audience, and will feature ...READ»
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up his whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley yesterday, and while it’s fun to imagine Steve Jobs giving him the five-cent tour of One Infinite Loop or Ev Williams and Biz Stone teaching him how ...READ»
A friend of mine took her seven-year-old granddaughter to Toys R Us and told the girl she could take home any one toy in the store. Wonderful gesture? It didn’t work out that way. No matter what the granddaughter considered ...READ»
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money?READ»
Smoking apologists unite! Finally, there is another thing that people are putting into their bodies that will cause just as much damage. It's called food. And too much of it leads to obesity. The bad news: If you are thinking of ever ...READ»
The BigShot build-it-yourself digital camera kit has adjustable lenses, gears and dynamo (the camera is powered with a hand crank), to teach kids about optics, mechanics and energy.READ»
I called Columbia University in New York City numerous times asking them not to profit financially from my Indian National Project Paper. Columbia University continually ignores my requests since I cannot afford an attorney.
Columbia University charges people thousands of dollars each year to access my paper and I cannot even access myself for lack of funds. I posted it as a free service for anyone to read on the following website:
http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/3_1starr.htmREAD»
Published book reviews don't sell books anymore. All they do is act as marketing fragments for publishers and authors to spin for promotion. Welcome to the Amazon Review Cycle. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 2]READ»
To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ»
It's no secret that residents of carcinogen-thick cities have above average incidences of asthma. Now a new generation of pocket-sized pollution detectors, developed by scientists at Columbia University and the Pacific Northwest ...READ»
As a participant in the recent Pacific Health Summit, I was struck by the bold talk of innovative approaches to addressing the global threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). And yet few of the projects that were ...READ»
Sure, trees are nice to look at, but they're also carbon-collecting powerhouses. Now Klaus Lackner, a professor of geophysics at Columbia University, is developing a synthetic tree that can collect carbon approximately 1,000 times ...READ»
1. Rich Ross, President, Disney Channels Worldwide
A lifelong TV addict, Ross has expanded Disney's channels beyond the box into film, radio, mobile, and online. But he'll be remembered most for unleashing Hannah Montana and High ...READ»
A group of scientists and researchers from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University is working on an iPhone application that turns budding scientists into valuable research contributors.
The application ...READ»
