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Kara MillerKM

Kara Miller

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Kara Miller is the host and executive editor of Innovation Hub, which she launched in 2011. PRI took the program national in 2014. Kara has also appeared on “The Takeaway,”  “PRI's The World,” and “Marketplace Tech." Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The National Journal, TheAtlantic.com, The Huffington Post, and The International Herald Tribune. Kara holds a Ph.D. from Tufts and a B.A. from Yale. She serves on the advisory committee of the Lemelson Foundation.Follow Kara on Twitter: @karaemiller
a man looks at an algorithm on a computer screen
Health
Can an algorithm keep kids safe?
The White House
Global Politics
5 challenges facing the next president — whoever it is
sprouts
Food
Why hating certain foods may be an illusion
Online learning
Education
The online post that led to a $1.5 billion LinkedIn purchase
Even after he came up with E=mc2, young Albert Einstein was still unable to get a job teaching physics.
Science
Albert Einstein: The slacker years
Albert Einstein’s work made clear that clocks in space move at a different speed than clocks on Earth. Taking into account those differences is crucial to ensuring GPS’ accuracy.
Technology
The next time your GPS gets you somewhere on time, thank Albert Einstein
According to the US Census, 74 percent of those with a bachelor's degree in STEM subjects don't work in STEM jobs.
Education
Are we producing too many STEM grads?
Google founder Sergey Brin (L) and designer Diane von Furstenberg sit and watch the rehearsal for her Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week September.
Technology
The tech invasion of fashion? The flirting has begun.
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, 1920
Culture
How the Nazis helped Coco Chanel — and Chanel No. 5
Senior citizen on Facebook
Technology
The latest wave of tech startups are targeting the senior citizen set
Gillette Field
Sports
Data analytics are playing an increasingly important role in sports — on and off the field
A woman holds a birth control pill at her home in Nice, France.
Health
The inside, not-always-ethical story of how ‘The Pill’ was made
Google self-driving car
Technology
Automation in our jobs is both a blessing and a curse
A TV plays a soccer match
Culture
Why TV audience measurement remains stuck in an analog age
Beer brewing in Massachusetts
Food
Today’s craft beer selection still pales in comparison to what was available centuries ago
Law books
Technology
How a century-old rule is keeping the American legal profession from innovating like its foreign colleagues
Solar panels
Technology
How a century of infrastructure is holding back renewable energy supplies
Pills and pill bottle
Medicine
A world without antibiotics? A new book says it’s coming sooner than you think
A desk
Culture
You can probably get just as much done in a 32-hour work week as you do in 40
Lego city people.
Arts, Culture & Media
How the Lego company found success in the digital age — by going back to basics
Lifestyle & Belief
Edible packaging could change the way we prepare and store food
Traffic piles up in New York City's Times Square. New York is one of the cities that attempted to introduce "congestion pricing" — fees for driving at peak hours — but the plan was defeated.
Environment
Would you pay more money to never sit in traffic again?
Business, Economics and Jobs
Are global companies wringing all of the innovation out of their businesses in pursuit of profits?
Business, Economics and Jobs
Are global companies wringing all of the innovation out of their businesses in pursuit of profits?
Deb Roy, Twitter's Chief Media Scientist, thinks we've only seen the beginnings of the disruptions caused by the popular social network.
Environment
If you think Twitter has changed your world, you haven’t seen anything yet
Foldscope microscopes are made and ship flat.
Development & Education
A Stanford professor is revolutionizing science with $1 microscopes made almost entirely of paper