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Deborah Kenny’s fixing education Channel: PopTech Length: 1053 Date: December 23, 2010 Deborah Kenny wants to scale the effective programs her organization, Harlem Village Academies, has produced. By avoiding previous, well-intention...

Colin Rich’s Near Space Images Channel: PopTech Length: 734 Date: December 16, 2010 Colin Rich captures fantastic images of the world from 24 miles in space. He creates his amazing videos and still photographs with simple system th...

Elizabeth Dunn: Happiness and Money Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2010 Elizabeth Dunn conducts experimental research on self-knowledge and happiness with a focus on how people can use their money more effectively to in...

Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek Channel: PopTech Length: 270 Date: November 26, 2010 Imogen Heap plays a stripped-down version of what she says is her most popular song, “Hide and Seek.” It came together by accident one night when ...

Deborah Kenny fixing education Channel: PopTech Length: 1053 Date: November 21, 2010 Deborah Kenny wants to scale the effective programs her organization, Harlem Village Academies, has produced. By avoiding previous, well-intention...

Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Cancer Puzzle Channel: PopTech Length: 1262 Date: November 19, 2010 Siddhartha Mukherjee’s fascination with cancer is rooted not just in how to fight it, but in where it originated. Discovering almost nothing on th...

Lauren Abramson: Better Justice Channel: PopTech Length: 353 Date: November 12, 2010 As the founder of the Community Conferencing Center, Social Innovation Fellow Lauren Abramson works to alter how society typically responds to cri...

Graham Hill: Life Edited Channel: PopTech Length: 297 Date: November 11, 2010 Treehugger founder Graham Hill announced the launch of a new online design competition, Life Edited, and asked all interested parties to weigh in ...

Beth Shapiro: What Goes Extinct? Channel: PopTech Length: 372 Date: November 08, 2010 Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro explores the influences of climate and humans in determining species extinction. Why did brown bears survive wh...

Sarah Fortune: Fighting TB Channel: PopTech Length: 485 Date: November 07, 2010 Why is tuberculosis so resistant to treatment? Sarah Fortune studies the bacterium that causes tuberculosis as well as how it responds to various e...

Sean Gourley: Tracking Innovation Channel: PopTech Length: 342 Date: November 07, 2010 Sean Gourley is a mathematician who has spent the last seven years using math to understand war and insurgency. He is now applying that understandi...

Sinan Aral: Social Contagion Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: November 06, 2010 Sinan Aral’s two areas of interest are behavioral contagions and causality. He believes that if we can understand how behavior is spread in a popul...

Amro Hamdoun: Cell Self-Defense Channel: PopTech Length: 375 Date: November 05, 2010 Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun seeks to understand the systems that cells and embryos use to protect themselves against chemical pollution. Why do som...

Casey Dunn: Evolving Diversity Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: November 05, 2010 Casey Dunn is rethinking where individuality begins. He is fascinated by siphonophores, deep sea superorganinisms comprised of thousands of organi...

Matthew Berg: Mobiles for Health Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: November 05, 2010 Matt Berg helped create and pilot ChildCount+, a mobile-phone-based health platform that empowers communities in Africa to improve child and mater...

Rush Bartlett: Safe Drug Delivery Channel: PopTech Length: 1234 Date: November 05, 2010 Injectable drugs are a huge part of modern life, and with 16 billion injections a year, delivery system innovation is a field ripe for breakthroug...

Laura Stachel: Solar Saves Lives Channel: PopTech Length: 478 Date: November 05, 2010 Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson founded WE CARE Solar, which designs solar-powered systems to meet essential maternity care needs. These portable, s...

Ben Lyon: Mobile Microcredit Channel: PopTech Length: 287 Date: November 05, 2010 Ben Lyon founded FrontlineSMS:Credit to allow microfinance institutions to send and receive secure loan payments, track loans and develop a micro-...

Naif Al-Mutawa: The New Superheroes Channel: PopTech Length: 1170 Date: September 05, 2010 Naif Al-Mutawa is the creator of THE 99 – the first comic series to include multicultural superheroes inspired by an Islamic archetype. A clinical ...

Peter Diamandis: Awarding Big Ideas Channel: PopTech Length: 0 Date: August 06, 2010 Founder and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis believes that competition can drive radical innovation in the sciences. He first did so...

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