COVER STORY
Sparks Fly
Immersed in courses that force collaboration and original thinking, students at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design learn what it takes to innovate, and are reinventing themselves in the process.
By Mike Antonucci
VIDEO: Football coach David Shaw, '94, recruits; former Flying Karamazov Brother Tim Furst, '73, juggles
ECO-ADVICE: Shower vs. bath, vampire energy, electronics recycling and more
EXTRAS: The role of yellow in Slumdog Millionaire, and an excerpt from How the West Rules—For Now
Weighing History
In his book Why the West Rules—For Now, professor Ian Morris claims it was geography, not people, that gave Europe and North America a leg up centuries ago, and contributes now to the East's inexorable rise. By Joel McCormick
Worlds of Her Making
Movie designer Suttirat Larlarb, '93, combines an artist's sensibility with an engineer's precision whether she's creating the vibrant costumes in Slumdog Millionaire or the claustrophobic canyon in 127 Hours. By Sonia Van Gilder Cooke
