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Shimon Schocken: Rides of Hope

January 30, 2011 by  
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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor programme with Israel’s juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes.

Emily Levine: A trickster’s theory of everything

January 26, 2011 by  
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Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She’s a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.

Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development

January 26, 2011 by  
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Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognise this and change behavior. His research has found nine ‘planetary boundaries’ that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.

Helen Fisher: On the brain and love

January 25, 2011 by  
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Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love and people who had just been dumped.

Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV

January 25, 2011 by  
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In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to create mothers2mothers, an extraordinary network of HIV-positive women whose support for each other is changing and saving lives.

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