Karen A. Frenkel

The Flipped Classroom: Answering Obama’s Call For Creativity In Education

At Michigan’s Clintondale High School, resources are scarce and failure rates are high. But a new initiative–watch videos of lectures at home, work on problems in class–has achieved jaw-dropping results. It’s the kind of educational innovation that could truly reshape how our children learn.

The Flipped Classroom: Answering Obama’s Call For Creativity In Education

How To Email Your Family After You Die

Canadian entrepreneur Tom Jackson’s new service, NowSayIt, helps you prepare for an unexpected, accidental death by recording and storing messages, videos, and more for loved ones left behind.

How To Email Your Family After You Die

Clothing That Fights Homelessness Also Fights The One-For-One Model

Kno makes stylish clothes and wants to help the homeless, but its model is a little more complicated than simply donating every time you buy.

Clothing That Fights Homelessness Also Fights The One-For-One Model

Hummingbird: An Educational Robotics Kit Designed To Get Girls Into Engineering

Though it turns out the kit–which shows that engineering can be a creative and artistic endeavor–helps teach and inspire anyone who didn’t think they wanted to make robots or learn about programming.

Hummingbird: An Educational Robotics Kit Designed To Get Girls Into Engineering

Strategies To Help Women Thrive In STEM Careers

Is there something about STEM in particular that makes it more challenging to women than other fields? Fast Company talks to Karen Purcell, author of “Unlocking Your Brilliance: Smart Strategies for Women to Thrive in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.”

Strategies To Help Women Thrive In STEM Careers

Hey Shopaholics, This Little Birdy Will Keep An Eye On What You Are Spending

Getting Hitched? Hosting A Conference? This DIY App For Your Big Events Takes 15 Minutes To Make

Encyclopaedia Britannica Is Dead, Long Live Encyclopaedia Britannica

That’s not just a gratuitous Ides of March headline. This week the 244-year-old company announced it is ceasing print publication, but here Encyclopaedia Britannica president Jorge Cauz discusses the business’ digital innovations and why its future may be more vibrant than its storied past.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Is Dead, Long Live Encyclopaedia Britannica

How $1.25 Billion Gets Spent In A Day: “Austerity Fatigue” And High Tech

CSi: Crime Scene iPhones Yield Forensic Evidence, Confusion About Data Handling

Skype’s Huge, New Security Headaches

Major security flaws in Skype, newly verified by an international academic research team, leave users vulnerable to stalkers, blackmailers, and other hackers. How long until Skype, under new ownership at Microsoft, fixes this?

Skype’s Huge, New Security Headaches

Impact

This fake leather is made from silk

This genetic tech could help save billions of baby chickens from unnecessary death

At its Silicon Valley outpost, Microsoft is putting the park in office park

News

Why Peloton is both succeeding and flailing: Reflections on a most memorable week

How to track China’s Long March 5B rocket live as it crashes somewhere on planet Earth

President Biden has reinvented the art of the flip-flop—and that’s a good thing

Co.Design

Planning a post-pandemic office? Here’s how much it will cost

Unpacking the CIA’s cringey recruiting strategy

Food52’s secret recipe for building a $100 million media empire

Work Life

The link between mental health and financial literacy for Gen Z

The one piece of data your company needs to track to improve diversity efforts

How to deal with anxiety about returning to “normal”