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Richard Alley on the "two-mile time machine"

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Get inspired by Richard Alley’s optimistic view on global warming. This world-renowned paleoclimatologist does have some bad news about climate change, although he’ll convince you that we not only have the tools to solve the problem, but we can make money doing it too.

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Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellows Program

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:57:02 GMT

The Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellows program is designed to equip the next generation of world-changing innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social network that can help them scale their impacts to new heights. Watch and visit poptech.org/fellows. Nominations for the 2009 program are now open!

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Go 500 years into the past with Enric Sala to glimpse a coral reef unlike any you?ve ever seen

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:48:16 GMT

Watch pioneering marine ecologist and Scripps Institution professor Enric Sala build a time machine to the 16th century - exposing a pristine coral reef few human eyes have ever glimpsed.

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Cary Fowler Safeguards Life - one seed at a time

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:40:04 GMT

Agricultural impresario Cary Fowler is kind of a latter-day Superman: his mission is to protect life on Earth, and he even operates out of an arctic fortress. While Dr. Fowler can't fly or leap tall buildings, his work has captured the world's imagination, and he's safeguarding mankind's future with a practical solution: seeds

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Bill Shannon Challenges Notions of Disability

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:55:26 GMT

Bill Shannon dances?on four legs. Born with a bilateral hip deformity, this ingenious performance artist's work will challenge your notions of disability.

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