Each of the single-molecule, 244-atom submersibles built in the Rice lab of chemist James Tour has a motor powered by ultraviolet light. With each full revolution, the motor’s tail-like prop... Read more
Last semester he taught 100,000 in an online course on machine learning Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explai... Read more
This talk marks the moment an innovation paradigm crossed the chasm to become an early adapter paradigm. Climate change did it 40 years ago… over the next 3-5 years End of Growt... Read more
Sir Ken Robinson provides the closing statement for the LWF 12 conference under the theme “leading a learning revolution”. Reforms are required for our industrial scale education... Read more
The digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made—and change the politics of jobs too THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with th... Read more
I think it’s the cusp of a revolution The pitch for the online course sounds like a late-night television ad, or maybe a subway poster: “Learn programming in seven weeks starting Feb. 20. We... Read more
A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining the news for the past 30 years the software indicates points at w... Read more