How the Local Food Movement Falls Short

By Kara Miller   |   Friday, June 22, 2012   0 comments.

The locavore movement is increasingly powerful — but one author says the movement is not nearly diverse enough and excludes some of the very people who most need healthy, affordable food.

We look at eating local — from a radically different perspective.

Guest:  

• Julian Agyeman, co-editor, Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Inside MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Challenge

By Kara Miller   |   Friday, June 15, 2012   0 comments.

Part 1:

Part 2: 

Twenty-three years ago, MIT wanted to find the very best start-up ideas out there. What new companies were waiting to be born? What inventions could change our lives?

Today, the winners of MIT’s 100K Entrepreneurship Competition have, together, created businesses worth $16 billion and generated nearly 5,000 new jobs.

A screen shot from filepickr.io, the first product from the team that created CloudTop, this year's MIT 100K winner.

But the competition is stiff. 

This weekend, we meet the winners of this year's challenge, who may have started the next big thing — while trying to finish their homework. And we'll hear about some fascinating entrants in the competition, like Liquiglide -- which promises to help you get that last bit of ketchup or mayonnaise out of the bottle -- and IoVista, a small device which helps residents of poor countries get a prescription for glasses.

Guests:  

• Alice Francis, co-managing director, MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

• Brett van Zuiden, co-founder, CloudTop

• Liyan David Chang, co-founder, CloudTop

A Digital Canvas for Art

By Kara Miller   |   Friday, June 15, 2012   0 comments.

Part 1: 

A screenshot from "Searching for Michelle," a work of by Maja Kalogera art comissioned by Turbulence.org.

We often talk on this show about new advances in science, math, and technology. Today, we ask what progress in those areas can do for a whole other world of ideas: The arts.

From music in video games to web-generated comic strips, traditional art may be migrating out of concert halls and gallery spaces and onto the Internet.

Guests:
 

• Helen Thorington, co-founder, Turbulence.org; co-director, New Radio

• Evan Ziporyn, director, MIT's Center for Art, Science and Technology

Biotech in Boston: The Present and Future

By Bob Seay & Michelle Liu   |   Friday, June 15, 2012   0 comments.

June 18, 2012

Crews set up for the conference on June 14, 2012. (BIO)

BOSTON — Boston is the hub of biotech, says Geoff MacKay, president and CEO of Organogenesis. But as the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) International Convention starts on June 18, some people are expressing doubts as to whether the sector is really creating jobs in the region and whether other parts of the world are catching up.

Read More

New Perspectives on the Genetics of Race

By Kara Miller   |   Saturday, June 2, 2012   0 comments.

 

About 140 years ago, when Charles Darwin was writing The Descent of Man, lots of people had theories about how many races there were. Some said two, some said two, some said sixteen, some said sixty. But Darwin wasn’t so sure. Were there true distinctive differences between one race and another?

We take up that question again, amidst a scientific revolution that is revealing more about more about who we really are — rather than who we might appear to be.

Guest:

• Sheldon Krimsky, co-editor, "Race and the Genetic Revolution;" professor, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University.

Cybersecurity: Defending our Next Battlefield

By Kara Miller   |   Saturday, June 2, 2012   6 comments.

Part 1:

Part 2: 

We lift the veil on cybercrime, which can lead to stolen identities, stolen company secrets — even stolen military secrets.

In an age in which information has become everything — and vast computer networks contain our deepest secrets — we have become trapped by the very machines that we rely on.

So how do you fight back against cybercrime? Can you build walls high enough? What does the battlefield look right now? We ask experts who are in the trenches.

Guests:

• Win Treese, associate director, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Boston University

• Mark Hatton, CEO, Core Security

• Neil Creighton, CEO, Counter Tack

About Innovation Hub

Each week, Kara Miller talks to Boston's most innovative thinkers, examining new ideas and potential solutions to today’s many challenges. Topics range from education to health care to green energy. Join us on Saturdays at 7 a.m. and Sundays at 10 p.m.

Kara Miller
As a radio host, Kara Miller has interviewed thinkers from E.J. Dionne to Howard Gardner, Deepak Chopra to Lani Guinier. She is a panelist on WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press," as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The National Journal, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and The International Herald Tribune.

Podcast: iTunes | XML

Browse our past programs

Podcast: iTunes | XML

  RSS

Topics

• Business
• Education
• Food
• Innovation Hub
• Technology
• Vegetables
• Visual Art
• WGBH Local News

 

You are on page 4 of 17   |   << First Page < Prev Page Next Page > Last Page >>