This week in PopTech: Live shows and the lives of brains
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Friday, December 23, 2011 UTC
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.
- Inventor Eden Full, who we interviewed last June, has been named as one of Forbes 30 under 30 lists in the energy disruptors category for her innovative work that maximizes the output of solar panels.
- Congratulations are also in order to Heather Knight (PopTech 2010) named to Forbes 30 under 30 list in the science category. Knight and her colleagues at Syyn Labs were behind the Rube Goldberg contraption that opened PopTech 2010.
- If you live in Miami or Salt Lake City, tickets are on sale now for a live showing of Radio Lab, whose co-host Jad Abumrad shared examples of how sound has been used to make scientific strides at PopTech 2010. If you want RadioLab to come to your town, be sure to let them know.
- David Eagleman (PopTech 2010)'s Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain was named as one of The Boston Globe's best science books of 2011. The reviews says, "Incognito is popular science at its best; these may not all be original observations, but they’re beautifully synthesized."
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Image: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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