December 2010
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“I’m happy to see it as a voluntary self-administered tax on scientific...”
– Ben Goldacre on quacks in his talk on PopTech
(He also worked in the phrase “consensual intellectual S&M” and I will leave it up to you to watch the video to figure that one out.)
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WatchLarry Smith wants to know your story. Since 2006, Smith has undertaken the Six-Word Memoir Project inviting his Smith Magazine readers to tell their stories in just a handful of words. His project can now be found in classrooms, boardrooms, hospitals, churches, speed-dating sessions, and at live six-word “slams” across the world.
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Teaching New York City High Schoolers →
Second-year students Katie Koch and Carmen Dukes co-founded Project: Interaction, a 10-week after school program that teaches high schoolers to use design to change their communities:
They will learn valuable skills in storytelling, communication, creative thinking and problem solving while being exposed to interaction design as a potential career opportunity. Using New York City as a catalyst...
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Gauging Bill Gates’s Health Grants Five Years In -... →
Five years ago, Bill Gates made an extraordinary offer: he invited the world’s scientists to submit ideas for tackling the biggest problems in global health, including the lack of vaccines for AIDS and malaria, the fact that most vaccines must be kept refrigerated and be delivered by needles, the fact that many tropical crops like cassavas and bananas had little nutrition, and so on.
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WatchLarry Smith wants to know your story. Since 2006, Smith has undertaken the Six-Word Memoir Project inviting his Smith Magazine readers to tell their stories in just a handful of words. His project can now be found in classrooms, boardrooms, hospitals, churches, speed-dating sessions, and at live six-word “slams” across the world.
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WatchAuthor of the Guardian’s weekly ”Bad Science” column and Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, British physician Ben Goldacre dismantles the questionable science behind an assortment of drug trials, court cases, and events of our time.
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WatchAuthor of the Guardian’s weekly ”Bad Science” column and Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, British physician Ben Goldacre dismantles the questionable science behind an assortment of drug trials, court cases, and events of our time.
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Gauging Bill Gates’s Health Grants Five Years In -... →
Five years ago, Bill Gates made an extraordinary offer: he invited the world’s scientists to submit ideas for tackling the biggest problems in global health, including the lack of vaccines for AIDS and malaria, the fact that most vaccines must be kept refrigerated and be delivered by needles, the fact that many tropical crops like cassavas and bananas had little nutrition, and so on.
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Why It’s Time to Start Producing Waste →
Considering industrial waste is an unlikely beginning for the typical company seeking innovative ways to become sustainable. Usually, waste is seen only as an output, not an input, but it’s time for a paradigm shift. For the past century, waste was produced with reckless abandon. Considerations such as decomposition, landfill management, and contamination were fleeting thoughts at best while...
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Why It’s Time to Start Producing Waste →
Considering industrial waste is an unlikely beginning for the typical company seeking innovative ways to become sustainable. Usually, waste is seen only as an output, not an input, but it’s time for a paradigm shift. For the past century, waste was produced with reckless abandon. Considerations such as decomposition, landfill management, and contamination were fleeting thoughts at best while...
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Making data dance
Innovation in infographics has always been driven by the need to explain difficult things, Dr Rosling points out. “Florence Nightingale is known as a nurse, but she also made a new kind of pie chart showing how many soldiers in the Crimean war died from military action and how many from disease.” Nightingale’s famous “coxcomb” chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British...
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WatchWorking for change: Samasource redefines international aid
Last week PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and founder of Samasource, Leila Janah was featured in the series “Agents of Change” on the PBS show Need to Know.
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“Today I relinquished all control of learning in my lab and shifted the...”
– The Innovative Educator: When students own the learning (via world-shaker)
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WatchElizabeth Dunn: Happiness and Money (by PopTech)
Elizabeth Dunn conducts experimental research on self-knowledge and happiness with a focus on how people can use their money more effectively to increase well-being. Dunn determined that by rethinking how we spend our money, we can “change the world, increase our happiness, or win a game of dodgeball.”
Richard Branson’s new climate project unveiled at... →
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Project Noah | Blog: Isabela's 1000: The Story of... →
projectnoah:
Today, I would like to introduce you all to Isabel Rubio Pérez. You might know her better by her nickname Isabela. She made Project Noah history this week when she submitted her 1000th spotting! She is one of our earliest supporters and has contributed an amazing assortment of beautiful…
Congrats!
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WatchBrian Hare: Peaceful as a Bonobo? (by PopTech)
Featured Fellow: What can human society learn from bonobo behavior? Brian Hare studies primates’ and non-primates’ social skills and asks whether areas of their evolution have surpassed our own.
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Nike Considered Design is open sourcing its...
Nike is releasing its Environmental Apparel Design Tool with supporting data and methodology for public review. We hope by sharing this knowledge it will accelerate collaboration and encourage broader adoption of sustainability principles. The Tool evaluates waste, energy, toxics and water in materials and manufacturing, enabling companies to affect the most significant components of a product’s...
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WatchKel Sheppey: Fighting HIV/AIDS (by PopTech)
In recognition of World Aids Day, we’d like to share the work of 2010 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Kel Sheppey.
To combat the spread of AIDS, Kel founded Wild4Life, an AIDS awareness and testing organization that collaborates with wildlife conservation groups, reaching remote communities and educating them about the importance of AIDS...
