Innovation
Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement
Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy — real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue. Tags: Arthritis, Design, injury, Innovation, Inspiring, Kevin Stone, replacement, Technology
John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean
Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab — sparking an explosion of rich data about the world below. Tags: Innovation, John Delaney, ocean, Oceanographer, Technology
Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality
Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too. Tags: choices, Innovation, Inspiring, irrational decisions, irrationality, Laurie Santos, monkeys, [...]
