Innovation in Society
Are Animals People?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Image by Getty Images via Daylife
The disparity between experiments that suggest sophisticated cognition in animals and those that find hard limits to animal intelligence has created a debate over animal “personhood.”
The recent fatal attack of a SeaWorld trainer by the orca Tilikum has led to renewed questions about how humans should [...]
Building a Better Teacher
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Image via Wikipedia
ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for Lemov to tell them [...]
China’s Cyberposse
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Image via Wikipedia
The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding [...]
Cellphones Let Shoppers Point, Click and Purchase
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Image by Norma Desmond via Flickr
Shoppers will soon be able to stand outside the designer Norma Kamali’s boutique in Manhattan, point a phone at merchandise in the window and buy it — even late at night when the store is closed.
Ms. Kamali is at the forefront of a technological transformation coming to [...]
Water-Cooler Effect: Internet Can Be TV’s Friend
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Image via Wikipedia
Remember when the Internet was supposed to kill off television?
That hasn’t been the case lately, judging by the record television ratings for big-ticket events. The Vancouver Olympics are shaping up to be the most-watched foreign Winter Games since 1994. This year’s Super Bowl was the most-watched program in United States [...]
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