Antibiotics have saved the lives of countless millions. However over-prescription causes unintended side-effects. They are less effective in time because our immune systems have developed a tolerance. Pain medications have provided significant benefits to millions on a daily basis– again, overuse proves harmful. They sometimes have side effects, and their effects are short term—when they […]

Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that develops robotics and human simulation systems. The firm was founded in 1992, originating as a result of research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The firm produces products that range from military robots to simulation-based training to physics-based virtual prototyping. Significantly, their robots can perform agility functions […]

Founded in 2007, Project Better Place is an Israeli firm with the objective of having zero-emission electric automobiles in place throughout Israel and Denmark within the next three years. Its unique subscription method for automobiles and solar powered charging centers is gaining the attention of automakers and countries worldwide. Black and White profiles the […]

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a UK-based concern that has a 8 year history of working with the world’s largest corporations. It gathers and discloses greenhouse gas emissions records from its participants and makes its results available for public viewing. The group recently announced that at least 30 U.S. urban centers will participate in their surveys as well under the new CDP Cities program.

The Walt Disney Company, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich announced that they would establish new research centers in a joint venture. The move from Disney positions it with top high tech firms in an ever-growing Collaborative Research Center effort hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael Jonas is an American who has lived in China for the past three years. Black and White talks to Jonas about living and working in China– touching on the issues of Chinese transportation and health care systems and environmental conditions in rural and urban China. The discussion also covers the Chinese nationalism that Jonas experienced.

What do Neil Young and T. Boone Pickens have in common? In many aspects of their lives, not very much. One is an icononic acoustic rock musician, who has been writing creative material for over forty years, and is widely known for his liberal political stances. The latter is a well established oil tycoon and […]

Micro-credit is the practice of giving small loans to impoverished borrowers with no collateral. Micro-credit has been hailed by many economists as a pragmatic, market-based approach to global poverty, and the idea gained global recognition in 2006, when Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for the development and implementation of micro-credit strategies. Today, some estimates indicate that there are over 100 million borrowers of micro-credit loans worldwide from over 10,000 micro-credit institutions.