Nina Paley
“Nina Paley is a cartoonist and animator who refers to herself as ‘America’s Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist’. She’s been working for more than twenty years first as a cartoonist and then as an animator but it’s her last project, the animated feature film “Sita Sings the Blues” has garnered her the most attention of her career. […]
Rotavax (Oral Vaccine)
“Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduates developed a quick-dissolving film that may someday deliver rotavirus vaccine to infants in impoverished areas. The team developed a potentially revolutionary way to inoculate infants and children against rotavirus, a disease that kills some 600,000 children worldwide each year. The novel system they created would deliver life-saving medicine on a […]
The Meatrix
“When The Meatrix launched in November 2003, the viral film broke new ground in online grassroots advocacy, creating a unique vehicle by which to educate, entertain and motivate people to create change. The Meatrix movies, now a series, have been translated into more than 30 languages and are one of the most successful online advocacy […]
Old Woolshed, Omarkere
March 30, 2010 by Gail
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Navigenics
“They analyse your DNA for risk markers that may genetically predispose you to various health conditions, including breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer and heart attack. Navigenics was founded in 2006 by David Agus, M.D. and Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., with the overall goal of improving personal health. Their genetic testing services were born out […]
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