Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, explores how resiliency can empower even the most destitute and vulnerable communities. “When the World Bank was planning to invest $100 million dollars in upgrading the slums in Nairobi, these slum-dweller leaders were represented at the table.”

Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, shows how he is hooking a new generation of kids on computer programming. “I remember sitting down with my wife for dinner...and we had this sudden, appalling realization that we had promised 600,000 people that we would build them a $25 dollar computer.”

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

• Last Friday, our Executive Director Andrew Zolli was a guest on NPR's Science Friday to talk about resilience, both PopTech's ongoing theme for this year's conferences and the name of his new book, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back. Have questions about resilience? Tune in next Wednesday at 10am, for a Reddit IAmA with Zolli.

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

• This week D-Rev: Design Revolution, which is run by 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Krista Donaldson, was highlighted in Fast Co.Exist. D-Rev bringing state-of-the-art, user-centric products to empower the lives of the four billion people living on less than four dollars a day.

• In food tech news, 2011 Social Innovation Fellow Erica Block's Local Orbit was featured on Xconomy.com. Local Orbit provides one-stop-shopping with an online platform that provides customized websites with e-commerce, management, and marketing tools to help streamline the local food supply chain.

• Earlier this week, Jay Parkinson (PopTech 2009) talked to CBS This Morning about Sherpaa and his ongoing journey to reimagine health care delivery.

• CNN produced a great video on 2011 PopTech Fellow Dominic Muren, his design laboratory Humble Factory, and the makers movement.

• Jad Abumrad (PopTech 2010) wrote a manifesto on how Radiolab was born for Transom.org. For more about Radiolab and sound be sure to watch Abumrad’s  2010 PopTech talk where he shares examples of how sound has been used to make scientific strides as well as convey failure or express error.

• Finally, here’s a free collection of MP3s from Alexi Murdoch, Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly that commemorates their collaboration at the PopTech Iceland 2012.
  

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

• Tom Darden (PopTech 2010), executive director of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, was tasked to oversee building 150 affordable, green, high-design homes in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina. This week Fast Co.Exist announced the exciting news that Make It Right has completed its first Frank Gehry-designed home.

• 2011 PopTech Science Fellow Iain Couzin was featured on CNN earlier this week for his research using the Xbox to study locust swarms. Through his work on swarm behavior, Couzin attempts to understand how people, animals and even diseases manage to accomplish things in groups that would not be possible as individuals.

• Computational neuroscientist and 2010 PopTech Science Fellow H. Sebastian Seung conducts pioneering research on the wiring of the brain and what it reveals about genetics, personality, and memory. This week Boston.com covered Seung and the launch of EyeWire, an online game that invites volunteer “scientists” to build 3-D maps of the cell networks that are crucial for vision. 

• Finally, Princeton University professor Anne-Marie Slaughter (PopTech 2011) made an appearance on The Colbert Report to talk about her Atlantic cover article, "Why Women Can't Have It All." Slaughter stressed that women need better job choices, ones that equally accommodate a family and full career.

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

• Elizabeth Dunn (PopTech 2010) conducts experimental research on self-knowledge and happiness, with a focus on how people can use their money more effectively to increase well-being. This week in the New York Times, Dunn explores how money and generosity relate to happiness.

• Also in The New York Times, PopTech Iceland speaker Dr. Kári Stefánsson (PopTech Iceland 2012) details in a new study how a rare gene mutation has been found to stave off Alzheimer’s.

• We may not want to admit it, but like any system, biological or man-made, the Web has the potential to fail. On CNN.com, David Eagleman (PopTech 2010) says that just because the 'net hasn't gone down yet, does that mean it can't. 

• Exciting news from Alan Rabinowitz's (PopTech 2010) wild cat conservation organization Panthera! For the first time, the den sites of two female snow leopards and their cubs have been located in Mongolia’s Tost Mountains, with the first known video of one mother and her cub recorded by scientists from Panthera and the Snow Leopard Trust. 

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There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

• To provide context for PopTech Iceland 2012, Executive Director Andrew Zolli explained why we chose Iceland for our first ever international conference.

• For a closer look at Iceland's rise and fall, Andri Snær Magnason (PopTech 2012 Iceland), author of Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation and director of a documentary by the same name, wrote an article that looks at the dynamics of Iceland including the recent crises it encountered and the outlook for the future.

• Our resident graphic facilitator and artists Peter Durand shared a visual digest of PopTech 2012: Toward Resilience that included graphic representations of each of the speaker's talks. 

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