ByTED
Science fair winning teenagers, Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, have identified a new bacteria that breaks down nasty compounds called phthalates, common to flexible plastics and linked to health problems. Because once it’s created, plastic (almost) never dies – they found an answer to the burning question of how to break down plastics – surprisingly close to home…
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” Napoleon Hill Almost all of us have experienced a “ Eureka Moment ” – a moment in our lives where we have had a great thought…
ByTED
In this fascinating talk, entrepreneur Lisa Gansky – author of “The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing,” and the instigator behind the Mesh Directory (www.meshing.it) – puts a fresh spin on the concept of sharing. Gansky believes that the world will enjoy a large-scale shift toward sharing in the future. She highlights a…
The Economist puts China in the spotlight once more, and not only for its legacy of malinvestment. As it stands, Economists and policymakers around the world want China to consume more, in return for a reduction of its dependence on investment. The overall conception is that no economy that invests so heavily can possibly invest it all…
The original idea behind the birth of 3D printing was being able to create one-off prototypes. However, as the technology improves, more items are being printed as final products (a process known as additive manufacturing). As there are extremely few economies of scale in this technology is ideally suited to low-volume production. Now, freed of…
The Economist reports on The American economy’s state of health, how it has deteriorated over the past two decades and proposes some suggestions for how to raise it once more. Factually, America’s economic prospects began to bloom back in the 1990’s, when productivity soared and immigrants and foreign capital flocked to take advantage of what was…
ByHBR.org
Intensive care physician Peter Pronovost and chief engineers Alan Ravitz and Conrad Grant, contrasts the way we build hospitals to the approcah taken by an aircraft manufacturer upon deciding to create a new model. Where the former typically happens in a piecemeal, patchwork approach, the latter doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, to…
