Bitcoin Evangelist Touts Digital Currency As New Hope For Wall Street
Despite all the criticism, Bitcoin could be a tool powerful enough even to keep traders honest. So one theory goes.
View ArticleYoung Hackers In Molenbeek Work To Boost Brussels District's Reputation
A social entrepreneur in Brussels is encouraging computer geeks to change the district's reputation from a hotbed of terrorism to a source of innovation — and the results so far have been remarkable.
View ArticleThe One-Room Schoolhouse That's A Model For The World
Escuela Nueva (New School) isn't really new. But it is being praised as a kind of cutting-edge model that can teach the skills needed for jobs that robots can't do.
View ArticleIn Germany, Asylum Seekers' Medical Needs Are Being Contained
Providing care to asylum seekers has been a challenge, not least due to language barriers. Two entrepreneurs have turned shipping containers into mobile clinics, with 24-hour access to translators.
View ArticleSafety Product That Uses Fingerprint ID Likely To Irk Some Gun Owners
An engineer in Detroit is marketing a device requiring fingerprint identification to unlock a gun's trigger. He's an NRA member and a parent who's wary of entering the national gun debate.
View ArticleA Hospital Offers Frequent ER Patients An Out — Free Housing
Glenn Baker is what hospitals call a superutilizer, coming into the ER again and again with multiple health issues made worse by homelessness. So a Chicago hospital decided to offer him a home.
View ArticleFrom YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan, A School With Real Classrooms
Sal Khan, a pioneer of online tutorials with his successful Khan Academy, has established a private brick-and-mortar laboratory school in Silicon Valley. He plans to share its lessons with educators.
View ArticleWhy It's Never Too Late To Rescue Failing Students
By the time a teenager is ditching classes and hanging with wrong crowd, is it too late? One woman set out to prove that with the right support, these students can make it.
View ArticleThese Graduates Beat The Odds, Now They Need A Job
What's the key to helping a child born in poverty make it to the middle class? Some say it's good preschool, others say a college diploma. For one advocate, the time to help is at the end of college.
View ArticleThat First Paycheck Is An Exciting Moment ... And A Teachable One
Your first job can be a critical moment that sets you on a good financial path or a bad one. One group is trying to make sure low-income young adults get off to the right start.
View ArticleIn China, Some Schools Are Playing With More Creativity, Less Cramming
Local governments are allowing schools to experiment with new teaching methods. Educators hope to develop self-motivated, critical thinkers.
View Article'Genius Grant' Winner Is A Genius At Inspiring Students
Engineering professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum wins a MacArthur Fellowship for inspiring her students to invent medical devices for the developing world.
View ArticleThis Doctor Is Trying To Stop Heart Attacks In Their Tracks
Harry Selker has spent his life trying to come up with better ways to keep people from dying of heart attacks. Now he's intent on figuring out if a simple, cheap medication could be a game changer.
View ArticleCrisis Mapping Pioneer Focuses On Humanitarian Uses For Drones
Patrick Meier pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, compiling information to create a real time map of damage. Now he's focusing on humanitarian uses of drones.
View ArticleWhen Disaster Strikes, He Creates A 'Crisis Map' That Helps Save Lives
"You can't protect what you can't map," says Patrick Meier. He pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and now focuses on the use of robotics for humanitarian purposes.
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