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This week in PopTech: Sound effects, garden parties and community building

Emily Qualey ( Bio / Posts ) | Friday, April 20, 2012 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.

This week Soundcloud released a video that explores the four effects sound has on us – physiological, psychological, cognitive, and behavioral – with familiar faces Imogen Heap (PopTech 2008, 2010) and Radiolab host Jad Abumrad (PopTech 2010).

Join Imogen Heap (PopTech 2008, 2010) as she performs live from her garden on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd.

On Thursday, PBS' Media Shift blog profiled community builder and PopTech 2011 speaker Milenko Matanovic. Matanovic uses collaboration to transform communities nationwide.

Tech site Mashable takes a look at 2010 Social Innovation Fellow Yasser Ansari's Project Noah and declares, "If Charles Darwin created Foursquare, it might look like this."

Finally, do you create data visualizations? Yes? Brian Eno (PopTech 2006) wants to give you $30,000.

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