Rachel Arndt

For The Price Of Two iPads, This Machine Can Sequence An Entire Human Genome

If you want to take advantage of the latest plummeting price of genetic sequencing, it will be because of the Ion Proton. How did scientists find a way to get such a cheap window into our DNA?

Occupy Wall Street’s Philosopher-In-Residence On The Future Of The Movement

Shen Tong–a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests–is now helping OWS work through its own growing pains. What’s next? Tong spoke to Co.Exist about the need to move beyond protests, and what happens next.

This Article Was Not Written By A Computer

But could it have been? Narrative Science, a company whose algorithm turns data into narrative (and a Chicago Innovation Award winner), is being used more and more to write simple stories quicker and more cheaply than humans. Will robot newspapers cover the the robot revolution?

A Maintenance-Free Bike To Give Africans Some Mobility

Buffalo bicycles–a winner of a recent Chicago Innovation Award–won’t break down for five years, and fit almost anyone: kids going to school, entrepreneurs to bring goods to markets, and health care workers who visit patients on their bikes. It’s a two-wheeled piece of social change.

How Do You Reinvent Something as Common as the Padlock?