Oct 15 Watch 7:25 Did air conditioning play a role in Reagan’s election? Searching for ripple effects of history-making tech By PBS News Hour In the new book and PBS series “How We Got to Now,” Steven Johnson presents six game-changing innovations and how they shaped the modern world. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Johnson about surprising connections between invention and American society. Continue watching
Oct 03 Quiz: Do you know what these patented inventions do? By Laura Santhanam In this quiz, see if you can identify what some devices were designed to do based on renderings submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Continue reading
Sep 18 From Golden Retrievers to ‘Grand Theft Auto’ — 10 exports you didn’t know were Scottish By Lorna Baldwin You might know that golf, Scotch and haggis come from Scotland, but did you know the blockbuster video game "Grand Theft Auto" does as well? As Scots go to the polls today to vote on whether to stick with the… Continue reading
May 12 Two students solve the case of the watery ketchup by designing a new cap By Lindsey Foat, The Hale Center for Journalism at KCPT High school seniors Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson have spent a lot of time thinking about ketchup. As students in the Project Lead the Way program at North Liberty High School in Liberty, Missouri, Richards and Thompson have researched and… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch ‘Lots of important things are funny’ Interview with the founder of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Marc Abrahams. Continue watching
Jan 10 The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show By Colleen Shalby The 2013 Internation Consumer Electronics Show or CES, is held in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 to January 11, 2013. Depicts the newest electronic inventions from Samsung, Dell, Canon, Sony, LG, Nvidia, and Withings. Continue reading
Oct 04 New York City’s Maker Faire Delivers Dazzling Colors, Wacky Inventions By Jenny Marder A multi-functional unicorn shoots fire from its horn while sneezing glitter. A six-person ensemble plays instruments made of saw blades, propane tanks, automotive parts, and simple household objects. Cars shaped like cupcakes made of reused electric-car parts and… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations… Continue watching
Feb 28 Students Use Invention to Help Haitians Get Clean Water By Larisa Epatko Helping an orphanage in Haiti gain access to clean water gave some high school students the chance to put their engineering know-how to good use. Continue reading