Technology

How Terraforming Mars Will Work

Source: How Stuff Works

What would it take and how long might it take to transform another planet where people, plants and animals can survive?

Is There an App for That?

Source: Harvard Magazine

How does technology affect young people? Are they too dependent on their smartphones and social media? This article discusses the findings of renowned psychologist Howard Gardner, who set out to answer these questions.

Want grandma to know Siri from a selfie? This teen can help.

Source: The Washington Post

Teenagers and senior citizens sometimes have trouble finding common ground. One 16-year-old is helping to bridge the gap through technology.

Mine Kafon: Wind-blown landmine clearance

Source: BBC

Believe it or not, design can be a matter of life or death. Learn about a device based on wind-blown toys that was exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art on its way to saving lives in the designer’s native Afghanistan.

New Study Reveals How Consumers React to ‘The Store of the Future’

Source: Security Magazine

Just how happy are we with the use of technology to aid our shopping experiences in-store? Are we comfortable with virtual help in the dressing room?

Not Just Millennials: Consumers Want Experiences, Not Things

Source: Advertising Age

Today’s consumers prefer to spend money on experiences rather than material things.

Clare Students on Top of the World after Claiming NASA Prize with Radical Idea

Source: Silicon Republic

Four Irish students from a school in Co. Clare beat 4,000 other students from around the world to scoop the NASA prize at the International Space Development Conference in Puerto Rico.

Modern History Sourcebook: Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls

Source: Fordham University

Read this first-person account by a woman who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mill in the 1830s and 1840s. She describes the role women played in society at the time and recounts one of the first strikes in U.S. history.