Bringing DIY Solar Energy to Rural Africa
MIT students are helping villagers in rural South Africa harness solar energy using only cheap car parts and household appliances. Current TV
Student Population: 11,831 Not a single stolen vehicle. Not a single burglary. Not a single robbery. Not even a measly reported arson. In short, t...
Obama to Kids: Don't be a Rapper
In his back-to-school address Tuesday, the president delivered tough talk: Success is yours to grab, unless you want to be a rapper or reality TV star. In that case, you're out of luck. If you want...
Dance Your Way to a Ph.D.
Randi Zuckerberg works in marketing at Facebook, where she leads the company’s election strategy and has pioneered several large media partnerships. Included in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2008 Digital Power List, she is also a founder of The Dot Comix, an online video troupe that creates satirical videos about technology and geek culture.
You can't fully understand how hemoglobin molecules interact until you've seen them depicted through a classical pas de deux.
A Recession Is Just What Teens Need
Zac Bissonnette is an editor with AOL Money & Finance and its new personal finance site WalletPOP.com. He is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
My generation, long spoiled, is finally learning to pinch pennies. And that might just be the economy's best hope.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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