Pressure to Conform Can Inspire Creativity
New research suggests less-creative people do more innovative thinking when they are told individualism is the norm, and instructed to conform.
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Time for a More Sensible, Permanent Calendar?
An astronomer and an economist suggest the world would be a more sensible place if it dropped floating days of the week and leap years by switching to their Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar.
Detroit’s Tech Town: An Incubator of Creativity
Tech Town, an innovative business incubator in midtown Detroit, showcases the power of creative thinking and cooperation between public and private entities.
The iPod Touch as a Crop Saver
New Gene-Z device identifies diseases in plants, water, and food within 30 minutes, researchers say.
Do the Rich Really Make All the Jobs?
The argument that taxing the rich is bad because they're responsible for making jobs has some merit, says a researcher, but only for a subset of the wealthy — those funding start-ups.
Humayun Finding Medical Advances in Plain Sight
Mark Humayun taps the burgeoning field of bioelectronics to help the blind to see and the lame to walk.
Are Professors Picking the Public’s Pockets?
High-flying professor Tatsuya Suda's double-billing antics highlight the loose controls on the off-campus earnings of research university academics.
Obama’s Social Innovation Group Tabs Five Programs
Program to bring an entrepreneurial approach to social problems doles out some more money from its small kitty.
Battling World Hunger Through Innovative Technology
From innovation in architecture and robotics to mobile apps and interactive games, technology is reshaping our understanding of and approach to world hunger.
Designing for Impact and Emotion
Two recent design international conferences exult in the future of design, which can be harnessed to solve social problems as well as sell mobile phones.