Some of the nation’s leading researchers and inventors gathered at this year’s Chicago Ideas Week to talk about everything from robotics to game-changing medical innovations.
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What Your Dog Is Thinking
Dogs can count, use touchscreen computers and understand hundreds of words. Soon we might find out what they really think of us
Why It’s Time to Get Rid of Standardized Tests
Research repeatedly shows that tests heavily advantage some and disadvantage others. So why do we still rely on them?
This Is the Future of News
At this week’s Chicago Ideas Week, TIME’s Rick Stengel talks with news veterans and new media game changers about the seismic shifts in how we create, share and engage with the news.
Oedipus Chef: A Modern Cook’s Conflicted Relationship with His Mother
How do you make culinary improvements on traditional meals without becoming too modernist?
Are Sports Fans Really Out of Control?
Fans have been unruly lately, but if we focus on specific incidents we lose sight of the overwhelming positive support
The Do’s and Don’ts of Disruption
TIME’s Rick Stengel talks to successful entrepreneurs about upending the status quo to create truly groundbreaking innovations
How to Build the Perfect Philanthropy
At this year’s Chicago Ideas Week, heads of the some of the nation’s most innovative giving organizations gathered to share a few of their most revolutionary concepts.
Why Banning Conversion Therapy May Do More Harm Than Good
Therapies promising to “cure” homosexuality are potentially harmful, but so are laws to ban them
American Democracy and Some of Its Unique Discontents
TIME’s finest political minds joined mayors from around the country at this year’s Chicago Ideas Week to talk about the state of the Union and the presidential race.
Chicago Ideas Week 2012: Welcome to the Ideasphere
“Think out loud.” That’s the slogan of the Chicago Ideas Week, an event beginning October 8, co-hosted by Richard Stengel and TIME magazine that brings together more than 100 of the greatest minds in politics, fashion, …
The Disrupters
These innovators and their businesses are changing the way we live, eat, work, shop and play — again
Chicago Ideas Week 2012: Welcome to the Ideasphere
“Think out loud.” That’s the slogan of the Chicago Ideas Week, a unique event co-hosted by Richard Stengel and TIME magazine, that brings together more than 100 of the greatest minds in politics (Rahm Emanuel, Colin Powell); fashion (Diane von Furstenburg, Elle MacPherson); technology (Steve Case); the military (Gen. Colin Powell, Gen. …