GM Teams Up with Medical Device Company to Manufacture Ventilators

Executives at medical device firm Ventec Life Systems were impressed right away when they brought their concerns to automotive behemoth General Motors ...

With Crushed Hands, Woman Dials 911 with Toes

A woman suffered catastrophic injuries to her hands while changing a tire on the side of the local interstate highway. Yet she didn’t let that stop ...

Police Called on Clever Juvenile Entrepreneur

Solving a common entrepreneurial challenge, eleven-year-old Seth Parker found an easy way to generate interest in his fledgling enterprise, and all he ...

Mall Promotion Tasks Inventors with Making Impossible Gifts Real

The marketing team at Lakeside Shopping Centre are accustomed to the difficulty of getting the attention of a fickle shopping public. But recently, they ...

14th Child Gets Unusual Middle Name

A bountiful Michigan family added another boy to their clan, but what everyone's talking about is his unusual middle name.

Kateri and Jay Schwandt ...

Child Rescued with Superhero-Inspired Technology

Firefighters in the Los Angeles Fire Department turned to a superhero-inspired solution to help locate a young boy trapped in a sewer pipe. Thirteen-year-old ...

The Man Who Saved the World by Thinking Small

There are a handful of "hinge" moments in world history. June 6, 1944, or D-Day, was one of those moments. On that day hung the balance of power ...

The 'Cookie Cutter' Approach to Make French Fries

Eric Schlosser's book and then movie, Fast Food Nation, exposed the dark side of the fast-food industry. At one point, Schlosser described a food-production ...

The Jazz Musician Who Had to Improvise with Disabled Hand

Unless you're a true jazz aficionado you've probably never heard of Horace Parlan who made news headlines in 2017 because the 86-year-old musician ...

The Painful Beauty of Creativity

The musician, poet, songwriter Leonard Cohen used the following image for the creative process of writing (for teachers, artists, preachers, etc.):

[The ...