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Women in technology

Barbie dolls are seen in a window of a toy store.

Barbie typewriter toys had a secret ability to encrypt messages — but they didn’t think girls would care

Culture

When Barbie released a typewriter “for girls” — they decided the girls wouldn’t care about its cryptographic capabilities.

Jean Jennings Bartik (left) and Frances Bilas Spence (right) were part of a team of six women who programmed the ENIAC.

Finding the forgotten women who programmed the world’s first electronic computer

Technology

Connectivity through ‘digital saturation’ may come at the expense of conversation

Environment

How to start an energy co-op

Business, Economics and Jobs

Why do we predict?

Global Politics

Texting and teen development

Health & Medicine

MIT researcher says constant texting is causing anxiety, sleep and relationship problems in teenagers.

Padmasree Warrior on Why She Doesn’t Believe in Work-Life ‘Balance’

We kick off our week-long series on issues of work-life balance in male-dominated fields with Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior, one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. In her role at Cisco – a $43-billion company and the world’s largest maker of computer network gear – she drives technology […]

In Defense of a Shorter Maternity Leave

Back in July, Marissa Mayer took the reigns of Yahoo. In the process, she became the youngest CEO of a fortune 500 company. But while her youth made history, it was the fact that she was six months pregnant when she took the job that had the blogosphere passing judgment. But if they were passing […]

Mae Jemison’s Quest to Take us All into Space

Many of us dream about one day traveling to space. But unless you’re willing to dedicate a lifetime to the rigors of becoming a NASA astronaut, how can you ever hope to get there? 100-Year Starship is an organization that hopes to answer that question. Its mission: To take civilians to outer space within the […]

Lonely In A Digital Age

Many of us spend hours with our smartphones and computers, texting and emailing. We peruse social networking sites, updating our followers several times a day on our moods and thoughts. In many ways, it seems we have greater safeguards against loneliness than we ever have.  But Professor Sherry Turkle wonders if, in the age of digital […]