Comedian Larry David last night, Nov. 11, offered a tacit apology for jokes made during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live (SNL) last week,…
MADE IN AFRICA
Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices
Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and public health as well as…
STOCKING UP
NASA just sent 7,400 pounds of groceries, E. coli, and a 3D camera into space
More than 7,400 pounds of groceries rocketed toward the International Space Station today, Nov. 12, part of an eclectic cargo shipment that also included E.…
MOBILE RISING
The mobile phone is still changing the game in Africa
It is easy to glaze over the impact of the mobile phone in Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. It seems already well-established by all those presentations…
LEFT TO DIE
Crops are rotting in UK fields following Brexit immigration changes
A county in Britain is asking the government for special permission to circumvent broad immigration laws because of a drain on labor. Crops in Cornwall…
X GON GIVE IT TO YA
The iPhone X is a beautiful mess
A week ago, I stood with hundreds of other people near a construction site on New York’s Fifth Avenue so that I could buy my…
MARCH OF DESTRUCTION
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya is visible from space
In just months, more than 600,000 members of Myanmar’s ethnic Muslim minority, the Rohingya, have fled persecution into neighboring Bangladesh. When that many people move…
HELLO, SOPHIA
Inside the mechanical brain of the world’s first robot citizen
Jimmy Fallon is concerned. “You brought a friend with you here, and this is really freaking me out,” the Tonight Show host tells David Hanson,…
ONE YEAR LATER
I tweeted for Hillary Clinton for a year and a half, and here’s what I learned
I moved to Brooklyn in May 2015 to start as the first social media staffer on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, 273 days out from the…
MEMO TO BILL NYE
If the sun is so hot, why is space so cold?
Apparently, this is a question people ask, and they don’t like it when you make fun of them. On Nov. 8 Bill Nye, America’s iconic…
SNAP
I’m Instagram famous, and I have crippling body image issues
This story is part of a series called Craigslist Confessional. Writer Helena Bala has been meeting people via Craigslist and documenting their stories for over…
Listen to this new instrument that’s a combination of a saxophone and a recorder
The winner at Japan’s Good Design Award this year is a newly-invented instrument by Yamaha. The Venova is a cross between a saxophone and a…
