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Gary Slutkin - Pop!Tech 2008 - videoDecember 1 2008
241.jpgAfter spending years in Africa fighting AIDS, TB and cholera with the W.H.O., Gary Slutkin returned to Chicago and had an epiphany: the violence plaguing his hometown exhibited all the signs of an infectious disease. Learn how he's applied epidemiological principles to reduce shootings and violent crime in inner-city Chicago neighborhoods by as much as 75%.
Peter Whybrow - Pop!Tech 2008 - videoDecember 1 2008
229.jpgLeading neuropsychiatrist Peter Whybrow recently authored "American Mania: When More Is Not Enough," a neurobiological look at the instinctual and social behaviors that balance a market economy. Pay attention as he explains how America's reward-driven culture is pushing the physiological limits of our evolutionary inheritance - making us sick in body and mind.
Jay Parkinson - Pop!Tech 2008 - videoDecember 1 2008
228.jpgDr. Parkinson is re-imagining the doctor/patient relationship, marrying a 21st century toolkit - think social networking, IM, video chat, SMS and PayPal - with old-fashioned, doctor-in-your-neighborhood, quality care. Pay a virtual visit to his Web 2.0 primary care practice, Hello Health, which offers a new way of keeping people well.
Kelly Dobson - Pop!Tech 2008 - videoDecember 1 2008
225.jpgAn eminent roboticist and Ph.D. at MIT's Media Lab, Dobson is exploring "machine therapy" - a personal, societal and psychoanalytical study of machine design and its effects on peoples' everyday lives. Watch as she exhibits Screambody, Blendie and Omo, three fascinating robots that respond to - and influence - their users in provocative ways.
Clay Shirky - Pop!Tech 2008 - videoNovember 10 2008
215.jpgInternet guru Clay Shirky has a unique ability to present the chaos of the Web in stunningly clear terms, as he does here, documenting what a "spontaneously, self-assembling, online philanthropic venture" tells us about the nature of human motivation. Listen as he explains the concept of "designing for generosity," and what we can learn about it from the Josh Groban Foundation, Napster and a top online mobile phone forum.