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The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse.
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Investing in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women talks about three encounters with powerful women who fight to make the world better while preserving the traditions that sustain them.
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Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.
Tags: Annual Competitions, awareness, believer in education, comicStyle, daily struggle, Dean Kamen, DEKA Research and Development, delivers drug treatments, first, first portable infusion device, FIRST sponsors, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, Gail Penney, give parts of their lives back, iBOT, Ideas worth spreading, innovator, inspire teenagers, lifeStyle, lost limbs, Luke arm, main blog, mindStyle matters, motorised wheelchair, off-grid electricity, penneylane, penneylaneonline, portable dialysis machine, profound people, profound stories, prosthetic arm, pursue careers in science, quality of life, revolutionise attitudes, round-the-clock hospital care, Ted Talk, The emotion behind invention, Think car. Segway, turnStyle, vascular stent, VidStyle, water purification, wheelchair that climbs stairs, www.penneylaneonline.com
Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world peace, with her razor-sharp take on what ‘peace’ really means, and a set of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggle and sacrifice of those who work for it.
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Nathaniel Kahn is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated maker of documentary films. His journey to understand his distant father, the legendary modern architect Louis Kahn became the film ‘My Architect’.
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