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This week in PopTech: Cancer's biography, Possibilianism and sustainable farming

Emily Spivack ( Bio / Posts ) | Friday, April 22, 2011 UTC

Jason Aramburu of re:char and Salim Mayeki Shaban of ACON
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.

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (PopTech 2010)! He was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for his book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

David Eagleman (PopTech 2010) has been profiled in The New Yorker by friend of PopTech, Burkhard Bilgur, in a piece entitled, "The Possibilian:What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain."

And in more press news, CEO and co-founder of Medic Mobile, Josh Nesbit (2009 Social Innovation Fellow) and his crowdsourcing work in Haiti have just been featured in Fast Company.

re:char, founded by Jason Aramburu (2009 Social Innovation Fellow) has not only been highlighted in Nature, but has also officially partnered with ACON, an East African non-profit committed to bringing biochar and organic farming techniques to farmers in Western Kenya.

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