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The Yes Men on Culture Jamming

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:30:04 GMT

Practicing “identity correction”, the Yes Men target large corporations that put profits ahead of everything else. Getting inside the system, and impersonating business leaders, they smuggle stories out to the world to expose big business wrong-doing.

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Tags : arts, business, camden, conference, culture, cutting, design, edge, education, emerging, government, higher, innovation, leaders, maine, men, pop!tech, poptech, sciences, social, society, technol, technology, thinkers, thought-leadership, visionaries, yes

Elizabeth Streb on Learning to Fly

Wed, 20 May 2009 20:58:01 GMT

Who says we should only dance on our feet and not on our shoulders, hands or backs? Why dance on the ground but not in the sky? Take a look as self-described 'action inventor' Elizabeth Streb dreams up new ways to set the human body in motion.

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Robert Neuwirth on squatter cities

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Having spent two years living in squatter communities across four continents, urban ethnographer Robert Neuwirth finds people living lives of complexity, challenge, and surprising resiliency.

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Suketu Mehta on Lives in MegaCities

Wed, 06 May 2009 22:46:00 GMT

Writer Suketu Mehta glimpses our possible urban future through the lens of the vastly contrasting lifestyles in Mumbai, the biggest, fastest, richest city in India, and with a population of 21 million, larger and more crowded than many nation states

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Tags : arts, business, camden, conference, culture, cutting, design, edge, education, emerging, government, higher, innovation, leaders, maine, megacities, pop!tech, poptech, sciences, social, society, techn, technology, thinkers, thought-leadership, visionaries

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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Tags : arts, business, camden, change, conference, culture, cutting, design, edge, education, emerging, future, global, government, higher, innovation, leaders, maine, pop!tech, poptech, sciences, social, society, technologies, technology, thinkers, thought-leadership, visionaries, warming

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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Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:28:06 GMT

Debt crisis expert Juan Enriquez details 10 non-partisan financial commandments for the President elect @ Pop!Tech '08.

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Tags : 08, austerity, bailout, budget, collapse, credit, crisis, cuts, debt, default, deficit, derivatives, dollar, economic, economy, election, entitlements, financial, gdp, leveraged, liquidity, market, meltdown, military, mortgage, plan, presidential, spending, stimulus, stock, subprime, swap, tax, us

Singer-songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps weaves a plaintive tapestry of folk and country-blues

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:07:03 GMT

With roots in folk and country-blues, Kelly Joe Phelps serves up music the Washington Post says is brimming with "poignancy, passion and spirituality." Live on the Pop!Tech stage, the distinctive singer-songwriter coaxes satin-smooth melodies fom his guitar, while his raw, honest voice delivers heartfelt lyrics.

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Tags : country, folk, joe, kelly, phelps, singer, songwriter

Nina Jablonski encourages us to stop Twittering, start touching

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:51:10 GMT

A decade of e-mailing, IM'ing and social networking is beginning to undo 40 million years of touching as a primary human modality. Nina Jablonski - acclaimed primatologist, evolutionary biologist and Penn State anthropology department head - explores this change,our role as the only "self-decorating ape," and how our underappreciated skin holds the key to our humanity.

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Tags : ape, biology, email, evolution, im, network, penn, primates, primatoloty, social, state, touching

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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Tags : change, climate, coral, ecologist, machine, marine, ocean, pacific, reef, scripps, time

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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Tags : agriculture, biodiversity, cary, change, climate, crop, disaster, diversity, doomsday, fowler, global, norway, seed, svalbard, trust, vault

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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