Ideas@Innovations Wrap-up #3
The Dragon capsule floated in space on its way to the International Space Station, Peter Thiel is singing a siren song to America's youth (according to Vivek Wadhwa) and 'CmdrTaco' offers his take on immortality. Yes, it's time -- yet again -- for the week that was in Innovation.
Monday
- ICYMI: Our own Vivek Wadhwa was on CBS's 60 Minutes this past weekend. So, we, naturally, started the week with his follow-up on Peter Thiel's then-most recent appearance advocating for kids to reconsider going to college:
Peter Thiel sings siren song to America's youthThiel made this statement based on a 2011 calculation by Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff, which found that plumbers make m...- We also couldn't resist bringing to your attention this wonderful piece from our esteemed colleague Joel Achenbach:
Facebook IPO and Twitter meet Copernican PrinciplePosted at 11:49 AM ET, 05/21/2012 Mazel tov to Mark Zuckerberg and his lovely bride! Now let's talk about that Facebook IPO again. Your b...- And VentureBeat had the story about Reddit's latest gift-giving effort. Featuring Stephen Colbert for the win...
Reddit kicks off new gift exchange to boost troop moraleEver the patriot, The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert (pictured) was among the first to sign up for the new gift giving program. The new...- Video of the Week: The "Sports-ageddon" conversion for the Kings-to-Lakers-to-Clippers. Have at it sports fans...
Tuesday
- The day started at 2:30 in the morning, at which point I promptly made the Twitter error (hastily corrected) that the SpaceX launch was happening in 30 minutes, when I had the glory of a full hour's wait ahead of me. Well, it was worth it. The launch happened and Twitter was ablaze. I live blogged. It was, in the end, a great start to the day.
SpaceX Dragon capsule enters orbit after historic launch (video)Updated 5:48 a.m.: Members of NASA and SpaceX staff convened for a press conference Tuesday morning, including William Gerstenmaier, Alan...- Then, I started wondering about who, exactly was behind the launch. A note to NASA and SpaceX: more photos of your staff please.
The SpaceX mission: Names to knowPlacing names to faces for the SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.- Then our colleagues over at Wonkblog (in this case Suzy Khimm, specifically) had this science fiction lover swooning by writing this beauty:
How Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg and Iron Man are holding back American innovationAmerica needs its heroes, and it's no different when it comes to innovation. "From Thomas Edison to Iron Man, you have this idea of singl...- And that brings us to the video of the day: The SpaceX launch was too obvious. Also, I'm a huge Great Gatsby fan. I am also a gigantic Baz Luhrmann fan. This means that this is where you will find me on Christmas Day -- experiencing sensory overload by watching a film where the extravagance of the story is matched only by that of the director.
Wednesday
- It was mobile Wednesday! Okay, that's not really a thing for us, but we started the day with coverage of a new study from the Brookings Institution on mobile and the future of health care:
Mobile: The health-care fix we've been waiting for?It is projected that there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices in use around the world by 2016, and a new report from Brookings I...- Apple's Jonathan Ive is a knight now -- in addition to designing products that have people around the world lining up around block after block...after block...
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Sir Jonathan Ive: Apple's chief designer knightedApple's chief designer was knighted by the princess royal on Wednesday.- Rob Malda, aka "CmdrTaco," has a touching story of a short piece online and how the Internet grants us all immortality:
The Internet and the secret to immortalityDuring my daily news consumption, I bumped into a cute story that seemed a bit familiar. The story was a suggestion to switch to an 18 ce...
