Veteran journalist and former commodities trader Ted C. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China. Fishman’s account begins with the burgeoning output of China’s vast low-cost factories and the swelling …

A RealAudio clip… Ellen Pikitch, Executive Director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science and Professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries at the University of Miami, talks about the health of the world’s oceans. [Focus …

According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing is personal fabrication — the ability to design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that …

Science has never been more crucial than it is today to understanding the political issues facing the country; yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since Richard …

Everyone knows where a straight line goes… but a squiggly line can go anywhere. Computers generate straight lines. Life generates squiggly ones. That’s why your predictable business strategies never turn out the way you expect. …

To compete effectively, you must innovate — not just once, but consistently, in all your products, services, and business functions. But profitable innovation doesn’t just “happen.” It must be managed, measured, executed on — and …

An MP3 clip… The Internet just got cool again. Forget the crash. What was a collection of static pages and commerce sites has become a living, breathing conversation. A handful of innovations — tagging, syndication …

A RealAudio clip… A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a way to use tiny algae as beasts of burden, hitching tiny beads to them like loads attached to …

A RealAudio clip… Gene therapy has offered many promises of medical breakthroughs, but has kept almost none. Now, researchers report they have used gene therapy in mice to make headway against a form of muscular …

A WinMedia clip… Introduced by ASRA chair Dr. Marvin Fritzler, Dr. Stuart Kauffman — iCORE Research Chair and Director, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary — defines biocomplexity and how this work with …

A RealAudio clip… Forget the Middle East. Robert Kaplan says the war in Iraq is just a blip on the radar screen. The next U.S. military challenge will be in the Pacific — against China. …

A RealAudio clip… Turning thirty used to be embarrassing, an occasion for angst and misery. Today young adults are embracing thirty as cause for celebration. They’re renting yachts, giving speeches and spending thousands of dollars …

A RealAudio clip… Pietra Rivoli — author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade — discusses where our clothing comes from …

The defining political conflict of the twenty-first century will be the battle over life and death. On one side stand the partisans of morality, who counsel humanity to quietly accept our morbid fate and go …

In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, …

A RealAudio clip… Michael Krasny welcomes Bruce Abramson, author of Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How It Will Rise Again. [Forum]

In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins …

Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That’s what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future now belongs to a very different kind of person with …

A RealAudio clip… A rebroadcast of Dick Gordon’s conversation with E.O. Wilson. Wilson made his reputation in science as one of the world’s leading experts on ants. Now, he’s pouring his energy into something big …