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Olafur Grimsson: Iceland bounces back
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Jessika Trancik: Clean energy
Jessika Trancik works to discover and scale new energy technologies ...
Jessika Trancik works to discover and scale new energy technologies while also providing foresight as to where they are going next. She integrates technological details with climate change mitigation targets to make tech problems easier to solve and better for the planet.
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Iain Couzin: Collective behavior
Iain Couzin studies how animals coordinate behavior. He has discovered ...
Iain Couzin studies how animals coordinate behavior. He has discovered that locust plagues don’t occur because the insects are cooperating. Rather, it is a forced march: if they stop, they risk being cannibalized. Such insights help communities to track oncoming outbreaks while also challenging scientists’ theories of collective animal behavior.
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Alysson Muotri: Uncovering autism links
Alysson Muotri is working at the forefront of research on ...
Alysson Muotri is working at the forefront of research on Autism Spectrum Disorder. By studying stem cells from adult patients with Rett syndrome, his work is uncovering new insights into the environmental and genetic causes of autism, and the possibility that autistic neurons may be induced to revert back to normal neurons.
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Adrien Treuille: Crowdsourcing science
Can gaming cure disease? By creating games like EteRNA for ...
Can gaming cure disease? By creating games like EteRNA for protein folding and nano-engineering, Adrien Treuille and his colleagues are outsourcing research, each week scoring and then synthesizing top players’ work. By studying players’ strategies, scientists can improve their computer modeling while also creating new ways to fight disease.
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Jonathan Rothberg: DNA Testing
After his infant son was rushed to intensive care, Jonathan ...
After his infant son was rushed to intensive care, Jonathan Rothberg was driven to invent high-speed DNA sequencing. His work ushered in the era of personal genetics and today his technology is used in laboratories and medical centers all over the world. Rothberg’s efforts led the way towards the first sequence of an individual human genome.
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Arbabi and Hosseini: “The Daily Show” of Iran
Saman Arbabi and Kambiz Hosseini started a satirical television show, ...
Saman Arbabi and Kambiz Hosseini started a satirical television show, Parazit, broadcast on Voice of America. Today, it is an international phenomenon, drawing more than 700,000 followers. They use the power of satire combined with content from citizens on the street to expose injustices happening across Iran.
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Daniel Kish: Blind vision
Daniel Kish’s organization, World Access for the Blind, trains the ...
Daniel Kish’s organization, World Access for the Blind, trains the visually impaired to achieve greater freedom and mobility through echolocation, a technique that simulates a bat’s night vision of perceiving the environment through sound.
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Amy Cuddy: Power poses
Amy Cuddy revealed that we can actually change feelings we ...
Amy Cuddy revealed that we can actually change feelings we have about our own status through the physical positions we take with our bodies. Her research participants had higher levels of testosterone and lower levels of cortisol after only two minutes in a “power pose”. Cuddy asked if such findings can have wider implications for empowerment training.
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Shorts: Backstage with Blitz The Ambassador
We caught Blitz the Ambassador and his crew practicing backstage ...
We caught Blitz the Ambassador and his crew practicing backstage before they performed at PopTech.
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Olafur Grimsson: Iceland bounces back
The President of Iceland describes how his country encountered social ...
The President of Iceland describes how his country encountered social and democratic upheaval after the economic crisis of 2008. By combining wide-scale systemic inquiry into governance and judicial systems and investing in clean energy and technology, Iceland has been able to bounce back with remarkable economic vitality.
