rethink

Come on, scientists, enough with curing diseases. Where’s the innovation that matters?

The Steve Jobs biographer on the Apple founder’s genius, cruelty, obsessions, and indifference to money

With or without soil, living walls are energy efficient

A proposal to replace the beaver with the polar bear as our national emblem causes fur to fly

Experimental archaeology recreates ancient brews after analyzing pottery shards and bronze vessels

How Microsoft’s affordable Kinect video game system is changing the world of advanced robotics

Car companies are increasingly taking safety out of your hands and letting computers do the work

How the wealthy are shooting for the stars—privately

What’s the result of the hundreds of billions of dollars the government spends on innovation? Bupkes.

NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen on how cooperation is key to punting the Tories