Amishi Jha: Building Attention
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Amishi Jha is a brain scientist who is working on ways to train brains to pay better attention. How can mindfulness training help people in high-stress situations -- from medical staff to soldiers -- better navigate their challenging environments?
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- -: Amishi Jha: Building Attention
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Amishi Jha is a brain scientist who is working on ways to train brains to pay better attention. How can mindfulness training help people in high-stress situations -- from medical staff to soldiers -- better navigate their challenging environments?
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- -: Amro Hamdoun: Cell Self-Defense
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun seeks to understand the systems that cells and embryos use to protect themselves against chemical pollution. Why do some "bad" chemicals make it into cells, and how can we predict which ones will as we develop even more chemicals?
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- -: Ben Dubin-Thaler: Science by Bus
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Ben Dubin-Thaler, a biologist and founder of Cell Motion Laboratories Inc., drives the BioBus, a remodeled yellow school bus outfitted with a high-tech science lab that serves as a mobile laboratory to get kids interested in science.
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- -: Ben Lyon: Mobile Microcredit
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Ben Lyon founded FrontlineSMS:Credit to allow microfinance institutions to send and receive secure loan payments, track loans and develop a micro-insurance model using the ubiquitous mobile phone.
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- -: Beth Shapiro: What Goes Extinct?
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro explores the influences of climate and humans in determining species extinction. Why did brown bears survive while giant beavers didn't? Her cutting-edge DNA research is helping us make informed decisions about how to preserve the species that are currently und...
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- -: Brian Elliot: Friend Power
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Brian Elliot founded Friendfactor to unlock the power of friendship to accelerate legal freedoms for LGBT people. Friendfactor's innovative social networking platform shifts the focus of gay rights from ideology towards a far more personal concept: friends making a difference in their gay friends...
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- -: Brian Hare: Peaceful as a Bonobo?
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)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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- -: Brooke Betts Farrell: Waste as Treasure
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The amount of resources -- money, energy, land, water -- that go into dealing with the stuff we throw away is staggering. Brooke Betts Farrell's idea is simple: she wants her company, RecycleMatch, to be the eBay of trash. Matching those who have waste with those who need it, RecycleMatch lowers ...
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- -: Casey Dunn: Evolving Diversity
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Casey Dunn is rethinking where individuality begins. He is fascinated by siphonophores, deep sea superorganinisms comprised of thousands of organisms that are genetically identical but function in different ways. How have evolutionary pressures acted on the siphonophore and the individual organis...
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- -: Gidon Eshel: The Impact of Food
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Gidon Eshel is a statistician who grew up working on a dairy farm on an Israeli Kibbutz, a combination that's led to a deep knowledge of how what we eat affects our planet. His finding: a meat-based diet far exceeds the carbon emissions of a plant-based diet -- meaning that most people's usual wa...
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