Tag: Lisa Mullins
In memoriam: Inventor of the automatic cash machine
Last month, John Shepherd-Barron, the inventor of the ATM, died. But not before he changed the banking industry....
How to disappear and avoid Big Brother
With people constantly leaking personal information to Facebook, Google and closed circuit cameras, is privacy still possible?...
Europe's problem with Google and privacy
While the United States focused on Facebook's byzantine privacy policies, Europe stewed over Google Street View's capture of people's private data....
Modern art comes to Italy
Italy constructs its artistic future with a new modern art museum, the Maxxi, which opens this weekend in Rome....
Cell phones help aid groups in Haiti
When researchers can't knock on people's doors, cell phones are providing valuable information on where to send help....
Chocolate lovers for the environment
Farmers in Mexico have been clearing their ecologically important cacao farms. Chocolate lovers are trying to help them bring the cacao back....
Should we try to end disease?
Polio has reappeared in Russia for the first time in years, igniting a debate over whether people should try to eradicate or simply manage diseases....
Is China helping or hurting Africa?
China is pouring investment into Africa, with no political strings attached. But is that investment hurting Africans?...
Tensions rising over South Africa's foreign workers
Zimbabweans looking for work in South Africa are met with tension and violence from locals who believe the immigrants are taking their jobs....
Changing the way the world goes mad
Americans are exporting Western concepts of mental illness. Unfortunately, the American way might not be the best....
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