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WATCH: Mapping Ideas Worth Spreading

What do 24,000 ideas look like? Ecologist Eric Berlow and physicist Sean Gourley apply algorithms to the entire archive of TEDxTalks, taking us on a stimulating visual tour to show how ideas connect globally. TED Senior Fellow ...
by Natasha Lipman
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WATCH: Can Technology Solve Our Big Problems?

In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and wh...
by Natasha Lipman
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COP18: Piracy to solve climate change?

Climate change. Piracy. Technology. Three things that don’t normally go together, only within the context of the UN climate change negotiations, could actually be the key to tackling dangerous climate change. The issue of pi...
by Michael Mazengarb
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What we know about the Internet and political protest (I)

The quote above is extracted from an article written in 1985 by George P. Schultz, US Secretary of State at the time. Even if I hadn’t just told you that the quote dates back to the 1980s, you would probably have been abl...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Nairobi Mall Attack Inspires Two Online Tools for Emergencies

On September 21, 2013, a group of suspected al-Shabab militants stormed Westgate mall in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, killing at least 61 people, six security personnel and injuring hundreds of innocent men, women and ...
by Ndesanjo Macha
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WATCH: The Light Bulb Conspiracy – A Case of Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence – “A manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period.” The Light Bulb Conspiracy takes us back to the 192...
by Adriana De Sousa Calado
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The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...
by Brandon Engel
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The ‘Choice’ Of Fashionable Phones

I know that this might sound crazy, but since Apple released the latest installment of the iPhone 5s and iOS 7 software, I’ve noticed my old and worn out iPhone 4S is starting to crap-out on me. I know I am not the only one; ...
by Austin Macfadden
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More Than 16 Days

More Than 16 Days

Mobile phones have often been forwarded as an affordable solution to enabling internet access, especially for those from developing countries. According to recent research, there are currently 6 million mobile subscribers world...
by Natasha Lipman
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