Innovation / Business
Current TV’s Network Science
Power Player / by / January 25, 2010
The host’s of Current TV’s Max and Jason: Still Up are on a mission to inspire the planet by connecting science and culture, and having a good time while doing it. How social networks are driving the exponential growth of ideas.
Now In Business
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The Enchanter of Objects
David Rose on how his new company will get people to take their medicine and what Frodo Baggins’s sword can teach us about ubiquitous computing.
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Serious Fun
Kodu doesn’t have realistic graphics, huge explosions, or even a way to win. But it just might change the way we think about the world.
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Adapting to a New Economy
An evolutionary perspective on economics can explain how we got into this current mess, and how we might find our way out.
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Bridging the Gulf
Science and technology parks could replace Arab oil with Arab IP as the region's economic driver.
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Ecology of Finance
A growing cadre of biologists argues that ecosystem analysis of the world economy might stave off a repeat of 2008's financial catastrophe.
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Report From Dubai
Last November, the World Economic Forum convened thought leaders and heads of industry to discuss the state of the world. Seed followed up to ask where we go from here.
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Robert Tjian on Funding Innovation
The recently appointed president of HHMI on the importance of creativity and innovation for the future of funding science.
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The Market Force of Nature
Putting the "invisible hand" to work for nature could reshape the values of capitalism.
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China’s Environmental Blacklist
Shining the light on international companies that haven’t heard China’s gone green.
Week in Review
Bottom of the Barrel
A new book argues that marketplace innovations will make the future brighter, better, and more prosperous, but is such unbounded optimism rational?
Power Player
The Mom-and-Pop Water Shop
Microbiologist Ranjiv Khush and hydrologist Jeff Alberts are bringing an entrepreneurial approach to an age-old dilemma: how to bring clean, safe water to the developing world.
Power Player
Bioplastics Man
Biochemist Oliver Peoples explains how his polymer-producing microbes could transform the plastics industry and why both oceans and landfills will benefit.
Power Player
A Rocket for the 21st Century
Former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz explains how his plasma rocket engine could revolutionize space travel and why we need nuclear power in space.
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
