The eponymous ship in Star Trek: Voyager featured a 24th century technological innovation: bio-neural gel packs. "The gel packs formed the basis of the bio-neural circuitry, which was essentially an organic computer system. This was the first thing I thought of when I read about the breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, wherein researchers grow brain cells in a special gel and then introduce the gene for Alzheimer's

During his amazing talk on the epidemiology of violence at Dent the Future 2014, Dr. Gary Slutkin said (and I paraphrase) that one of the key determining factors in whether an individual will commit a violent act is whether or not that person thinks their peer group will find the violent act acceptable. Slutkin's work is showing that violence spreads just like an epidemic, with cultural attitudes about violent behavior as the key vector for predicting when and where violence will occur.

Today marks two years since Steve Jobs passed away. You can still find his name in the headlines, and Apple's current CEO Tim Cook yesterday wrote a note to employees honoring Steve's memory and his impact on the culture of Apple.