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THE BRAIN OF A GOOD CITIZEN In recent years, significant advances in cognitive neuroscience have shaped our thinking about the brain.  Neural Plasticity is the lifelong ability of the ....

KAMRAN ELAHIAN Global Citizenship: A manifesto for high tech entrepreneurs "I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”  For 2400 years Socrates' utopian v....

TRANSITION CITY What's Transition and what is the role of the citizen in it? BIO He is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. This grew out of m....

Mishal Kanoo The Key to be an effective citizen.   BIO Mishal Kanoo is Deputy Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest independent, family owned, group of compani....

LITER OF LIGHT GLOBAL When Illac first spoke at TEDxDubai 2011 little he knew that the TEDx community would impact this project so much. Exactly one year from his talk he is back to sha....

LIFE AS A HACKABLE TECHNOLOGY The tools to read and write DNA have become widely available just as we are learning to apply engineering concepts to the science of biology. Josh Perfetto....

BUILDING WITH BACTERIA Ginger Krieg Dosier is employing nature to manufacture building materials. She is challenging our current manufacturing method for concrete based construction mat....

THE BECKONING OF LOVELY It started as a spontaneous gesture to bring people together on 8/8/08 in Chicago.  It unexpectedly grew each year ...with gatherings on  9/9/09, 10/10/10 and 11....

HANGING OUT Before the summer of 2011 Daria Musk was a young singer/songwriter with big dreams, an entrepreneurial streak, a global-sized heart. A weekend of lugging her guitar amps th....