By crowdsourcing innovation through a contest, NASA hopes to solve a poop problem with financial incentives that have dependably spurred invention.…
The Amazing Innovations That Contests Create
Through incentives that encourage participants to solve design problems, contests can use the benefits of crowdsourcing to stimulate innovation.…
Bringing The Martian Down to Earth
For pure enjoyment The Martian is a good read but also it helps us recognize how travel to Mars has and will have positive externalities on earth.…
Electrification Insight From a Stunning NASA Map
African development continues to be constrained by problems with electricity generation and access to electricity that affect productivity and mobility.…
Bedtime Stories… About the Economy.
From statistics and a satellite image of the world at night, we can see that developing countries lack the electrification they need for economic growth.…
The Crawler
The fuel economy window sticker for this vehicle would say 1 gallon per 32 feet. Called the crawler, it travels on a roadway 3.5 miles long, could carry 18 million pounds, and moves no faster than 2 m…
Flying Snakes and Economic Growth
Sometimes the federal government spends a tax payer’s money in unexpected ways. According to the Washington Post, scientists funded by the Department of Defense are studying snakes that can fly.…
The Impact of an Asteroid
From our “Economics is Everywhere” file: Reviewing 20 years of research, a panel of 41 experts concluded that the asteroid that struck Mexico (at Chicxulub–chick-shoo-loob…