January 2012
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Trans African Caravan of Hope →
The Trans African Climate Caravan of Hope is a road show that will seek to galvanize the cross country stakeholder voices, with an ultimate aim of telling the African story while making known the demand of Africa among its inhabitants and the rest of the world. The Caravan is a huge mobilization and awareness creation opportunity for African civil society to highlight the challenges climate...
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This Is A Creepy Robot
twicr:
This is the robot I get when I put my Tumblr name “twicr” into RoboHash.org. Yeah, kinda purple-y creepy. Give it a shot with your Tumblr name and let everyone see what weird robot avatar you’ll be turned into after the robot uprising.
(h/t PopTech)
Ha! This is ours, BTW.
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RoboHash: Turn text to robots →
Looking for a friendly robot to add some sci-fi flare to your website or blog? RoboHash is a cool little script that will turn any snippet of text, username, file name, etc. into a cute custom robot (or monster, or alien!) that you can use as you see fit. You can change the size and file type to further meet your needs.
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Help Joel Sartore rename the Biodiversity Project →
We posted images from Satore’s Biodiversity Project yesterday.
Joel needs your help in renaming The Biodiversity Project. For the past two weeks he’s been posting about his quest to take photographic portraits of the world’s endangered animals. He’s traveled to zoos around the country—and the world—to do it. He sees zoos as “arks” helping to preserve creatures at risk in the wild. But...
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“It makes sense to use food as a topic and medium for design. The world has never...”
– Marije Vogelzang (PopTech 2009) in Design Indaba’s “Design:Digest.”
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“The future will look very different as we strip the information-carrying...”
– The High Cost of Low Bandwidth by Bill Davidow
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Go ahead, think wrong. →
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“Ai Weiwei told me recently that he thinks the government’s decision to detain...”
– Alison Klayman directed and produced the feature documentary, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” which premieres at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Back in October we had a chance to interview Klayman during PopTech 2011:
His ability to communicate does transcend. That’s also a part of going to the...
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“We envisioned creating a music exchange project that, in a sense, disrupts how a...”
– 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Chris Marianetti on Found Sound Nation’s new initiative with the State Department
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Bird brains, chattering elephants, savvy... →
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“GalaxyZoo, a citizen-science site, has classified millions of objects in space,...”
– ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets)
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How 'Radiolab' Is Changing the Sound of the Radio... →
Love this bit in particular:
Radiolab is actually post-blog and post-livestream. It’s not aping the oratory of old or the raggedness of the new. It’s a hybrid that takes lessons from the past, recent and deep.
For a bit of a different take on this, watch Radiolab host and producer Jad Abumrad (PopTech 2010) as he shares examples of how sound has been used not only to tell stories...
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Shine a Light: The Suitcase That’s Saving Women’s... →
What if your carry-on suitcase could save a woman’s life? In the fight against maternal mortality in the developing world, a rugged, portable “Solar Suitcase” is providing reliable electricity to clinics in 17 countries where healthcare workers previously struggled to provide emergency obstetric care by the light of candles, flashlights and mobile phones. The Solar Suitcase powers medical LED...
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New York City gets a Software Engineering High... →
pile:
This is great!!!
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WatchPowers of ten with food. (H/T Kottke)
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Electrify the Bottom of the Pyramid →
Staggeringly, about 1.5 billion people live without electricity. They’re off the grid literally and figuratively, lacking a basic resource that’s so vital to economic development and well-being. But extending the grid isn’t always practical—in many cases logistical issues and high costs make it all but impossible. The solution: creating local, self-contained, affordable power generation and...