Category: Innovation

Silicon Ranch’s holistic approach to solar development

January 9, 2023 Off

Update from the What’s Working Department: As reported by Canary Media’s Julian Spector, Tennessee-based solar energy pioneer Silicon Ranch raised another $600 million in equity investment to further its holistic brand of solar development. The company, which was launched in 2011, remains independent despite the industry trend toward consolidation.  Silicon Ranch takes a capital-intensive approach to development, purchasing,…

By Eric Jensen

Was Alan Turing the Father of Hip Hop?

March 11, 2015 Off

The tragic story of brilliant British mathematician Alan Turing has been popularized in the award-winning 2014 film, The Imitation Game and recent books by Walter Isaacson and Steven Johnson. Turing’s work cracking the Enigma code, and developing the technology that would become modern computing has become part of the popular lexicon. Less well known is his…

By Eric Jensen