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When Jamie Heywood’s brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict.
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Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart […]
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“Focuses on Pasifika and Maori communities unique needs and issues. At the very heart of the organisation is the creed or kaupapa that ‘it takes a Village to raise a child’. Underpinning this idea is the belief that as responsible members of our community, they have a collective responsibility to play whatever part they can […]
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Robert Gupta, violinist with the L.A Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.
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The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, that help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals.
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