January 2010
16 posts
Y chromosomes evolving rapidly →
By comparing human and chimpanzee Y chromosome sequences, Whitehead Institute geneticists show the Y is undergoing swift change.
The Story of one orphanage in Haiti →
The Story of one orphanage in Haiti (please consider helping them:)
http://www.wecanbuildanorphanageblog.com/lias-story-part-i/
The orphanage website: http://www.wecanbuildanorphanageblog.com/
And a place to donate funds: http://www.goodideasforgoodcauses.com/Good_Ideas_for_Good_Causes/C.html
Denver's aquaponics project aims to turn "food... →
A dilapidated greenhouse in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood could soon sprout one of the nation’s newest trends: inner-city farming using state-of-the-art technology to grow crops and fish in a single symbiotic system that mimics nature’s water cycle.
This would solve a problem for the neighborhood, which lacks a full-service grocery store — if the Denver City Council can...
Nietzche's Angel Food Cake Recipe →
(via crashinglybeautiful)
Denver Urban Homesteading Farmers Market →
DENVER URBAN HOMESTEADING, Local Market (click for video) and Reskilling Center is an urban agricultural center near Downtown Denver in a large commercial-industrial building at 200 Santa Fe Drive, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Santa Fe Drive.
Our goal is to promote agricultural activities in the Denver metropolitan area for a variety of reasons. First, for sustainability, i.e. renewing and...
Futureshifters →
Futureshifters is an online community that was developed to support young social entrepreneurs. We are people that are interested in the field of social business: we are interested in starting social ventures themselves, finding out more information about what is going on in the social business sector and overall supporters of what social ventures stand for. We are a global community with members...
Paul Polak →
Practical solutions… lie in going to where the action is, listening to the people who have the problem and learning everything there is to know about the problem’s local context.
Denver's Change Your City Campaign →
Meet the New Heros →
What is a hero? The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word as “a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life.”
The heroes you’ll meet on these pages and in these films are different from those in the pages of most history books. They are not famous politicians or legendary soldiers — yet they have...
"What is Social Entrepreneurship?" →
WatchEverything we know about the spread of HIV in Africa is wrong
Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spread of HIV on the continent is wrong.
Emily Oster, a fellow at the Becker Center at the University of Chicago, has a history of rethinking conventional wisdom.
Her Harvard doctoral thesis...
WatchKiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge
Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents.
WatchMaking maps to fight disaster, build economies
As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading →
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. TED is now a global community welcoming people from every discipline and culture who have just two things in common: they seek a deeper understanding of the world, and they...