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How this door-to-door directions, mapping, and route-planning service uses customer feedback to drive innovation and success. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc.
Read More »No Fake: Krossover Brings Data Analysis To High School, College Sports
Vasu Kulkarni is using his computer engineering and entrepreneurship degrees to elevate the playing experience for high-school basketball teams. | Photograph by David Yellen Startup Krossover is bringing number-crunching technology to high-school athletics. DATA ANALYTICS has recently become a red-hot trend in professional sports
Read More »Will Flip Cam Founder’s New Restaurant The Melt Survive The Cutthroat Grilled Cheese Industry?
Jonathan Kaplan has launched The Melt, a chow chain backed by James Beard award-winning designers, Michelin Star award-winning chefs, kitchen workflow engineers, and millions of dollars from Sequoia Capital. The Flip Cam was pretty awesome, too.
Read More »How Timing Is Everything
These chocolatiers get a dream order they can't ignoreor can they? Eric Heinbockel couldn't believe his good luck. Just a year after launching his chocolate company, Chocomize, with two friends in late 2009, he received an e-mail from a large European luxury retailer
Read More »Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré Repurposes European Techniques For His Native Country
Photograph by David Heerde To build this school in Gando, Burkina Faso, Kéré used local materials designed to withstand weather conditions ranging from blazing sun to torrential showers. His schools now serve 500 children
Read More »A Night with Chef Martin Brock
Not long after the demise of Gray Kunz’s Manhattan restaurant Grayz, chef Martin Brock found a new professional home as chef de cuisine at San Francisco’s acclaimed Restaurant Gary Danko. He returns to New York to serve a select few at a one-night class ($95) at De Gustibus Cooking School ...
Read More »How to Find the True Shape of a Soldier
In 1915, it was imperative for France to keep its soldiers in good physical condition. The French War Ministry’s physical education school in Joinville looked for ways to improve soldiers’ performances and spot any problems with their health before they were sent to the Front
Read More »Meet The Winners Of "American Idol"
There’s no number to text your vote for Coke and Ford, but the brands have fused themselves to Fox’s pop star machine. Here’s how
Read More »Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses
It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 24 people, picked to live among mentors and innovation experts, stop going to school and start getting real--in business. One climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Read More »The South Pacific Islands Survey–Our First Student Questions!
Ashley Park and Amber Watson, both juniors at Spanish Fort High School in Alabama, sent me an email after reading, "We discover what’s floating in the South Pacific." They wanted to know how trash travels in the ocean and if recycling is really the answer. Since I’m not a plastic pollution expert, I turned to Marcus Eriksen, the co-founder of 5 Gyres, a non-profit studying garbage in the ocean, to provide some answers.
Read More »Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash
One of the largest educational publishers in the world is offering cash prizes to the winners of a crowdsourced learning product innovation competition.
Read More »Leading With Character
Craig Robinson, the basketball coach at Oregon State and Michelle Obamas brother, answers questions about coping with setbacks, what you have to do to get to the No. 1 spot, and Barack Obama
Read More »The next computer: your genes
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Human beings are more or less like a computer," Jian-Jun Shu tells PhysOrg.com. "We do computing work, and our DNA can be used in computing operations." Shu is a professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. "For some problems, DNA-based computing could replace silicon-based computing, offering many advantages."
Read More »Cancer Testing? There’s an App for That
Many people already use their smart
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