http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:48:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/harvard%e2%80%99s-i-lab-zuckerberg.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:38:22 +0000 New project from Cambridge-based university aims to foster young entrepreneurial talent. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/yogurt-art-installation.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:18:07 +0000 Jennifer Rubell's latest installation, Incubation, features homemade yogurt, cultured and shared with a live audience.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/tablets-hurt-neck-headlines.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:31:29 +0000 New study out of Harvard suggests that iPad, Kindle Fire and others are bad for your health. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/harvard-innovation-lab-entrepreneurs-headlines.html Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:30:01 +0000 Cambridge-based University innovation lab called "Hi" is a new 30,000 square foot playground for young businesspeople to try out and test new ideas. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/lady-gaga-harvard-empowerment-foundation-headlines.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:59 +0000 The Born This Way Foundation will officially launch in February, and focus on digital ways to create positive change for youth.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/university-of-utah-number-one-for-start-ups-headlines.html Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:48:18 +0000 According to the Association of University Technology Managers, the school has claimed the number one spot, having spun out 18 startups from its program.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/occupy-protests-reach-harvard-headlines.html Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:36:12 +0000 Students boycott economics course by former Republican adviser, citing a bias towards a destructive brand of free-market economic policies. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/is-the-internet-making-you-forget.html Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:46:34 +0000 Our increasing reliance on the Internet to answer virtually any question has handicapped our ability to remember the simplest of facts.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/multicolor-mind-mapping.html Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:03:04 +0000 A colorful method for charting the brain offers new insights into how connections form between neurons.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/paper-accelerometer-points-to-a-future-of-pervasive-sensors.html Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:11:38 +0000 Harvard researcher George Whitesides has created an inexpensive device to measure the g-forces an object is experiencing. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/the-association-between-creativity-and-open-mindedness.html Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:51:44 +0000 A recent study points to the positive aspects of being distracted easily.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/community-garden-on-wheels.html Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:32:28 +0000 Harvard design project seeks to cultivate cultural understanding through the growth of ethnically diverse food. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/future-of-health-off-the-grid-energy.html Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:15:47 +0000 The development of human scale technologies that can to tap into and harness alternative sources of energy is yielding new solutions for powering peoples lives off the grid.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/computational-origami-flat-sheet-transforms-into-three-dimensional-objects.html Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:34:33 +0000 Researchers from Harvard and M.I.T. have teamed up to develop an electronics-embedded sheet that can be programmed to fold itself into different shapes. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/03/the-effects-of-luxury-on-human-behavior.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:06:01 +0000 New research tries to explain the connection between luxury and self-interest.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/what-are-the-5-secrets-of-innovation.html Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:26:35 +0000 A new study examines the key behaviors that lead to innovation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/harvard-to-have-own-clothing-line.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:01:11 +0000 During these difficult times, many institutions are seeking to raise financial support through traditional means such as benefits and events. However,  the smarties up at Harvard have a different strategy to help with their monetary woes. Recently, the Cambridge MA school announced that it will be coming out with it’s own clothing line The Harvard Yard,  which will be an assortment of crisp and collegiate menswear looks including preppy staples such as seersucker shorts, plaids, patterned jackets,  and “sporty knits”. Above is a sneak preview from the upcoming line to be manufactured by the Wearwolf Group, which is part ofRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/harvard-university-press-to-publish-digital-content-on-scribd.html Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:36:43 +0000 The Harvard University Press announced recently that it will publish approximately 1000 academic books digitally through Scribd, the world’s largest “social publishing company.”  Academic works are often published with ludicrously small printing runs because the main goal is becoming peer-reviewed, rather than read by the larger public. While putting scholarly work online certainly won’t make it more readable, it may advance the attitude of the academic community to accept the merits of online sources.  Most online material is frowned on by the archaic peer-review process, but hopefully if a large (and reputable) publishing house like the Harvard University Press takesRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/a-medical-test-for-the-third-world.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:00:28 +0000 A team of Harvard University chemists have developed a simple technology that takes an expensive medical device know as a microfluidic chip and puts it within reach of the third world.  Using paper and double-sided tape as opposed to rubbers or plastics that require multimillion dollar fabrication equipment, these chips can eventually be made widely available for mere pennies on the dollar.     [They] operate much like a home pregnancy test, in which liquid creeps up a cellulose strip toward a color-changing line. But unlike the pregnancy test, these new chips can split a single stream of liquid intoRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/life-after-retirement-leads-back-to-college.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:57:02 +0000 Harvard has recently launched a new one year academic program to serve the growing number of retired professionals who aren’t ready to lead lives filled with early bird specials and afternoon golf games, but instead want to involve themselves with creating social change. The program, called the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, is a collaboration among five of the university’s professional schools — business, law, government, education and public health. It is seen as a next stage for universities, beyond undergraduate and then graduate and professional schools. If successful, Harvard professors say, it can serve as a model for schools atRead more...]]>