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Salinity has plagued agriculture since humans stopped hunting and gathering and started growing their own crops. Salty soil, coupled with over-irrigation, helped turn the Fertile Crescent into a modern-day desert, and salinity […]
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A conversation with the author and behavioral finance theorist.
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The behavioral finance theorist invites us to imagine a bank we can trust.
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Richard Thaler reveals how to be frugal without thinking about it.
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Richard Thaler wants more "skin in the game" to encourage money managers to avoid risks.
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The behavioral finance theorist, Richard Thaler, explores an example from his book "Nudge": how images of flies on airport urinals reduce male spillage.
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Richard Thaler to overconfident risk managers: there’s more risk out there than you think.
Now come Mr. Barack Obama, he listens to Winston Churchill’s word Jaw Jaw is better than war war. However, he and his untested brightest and smartest guys want to change everything, ENERGY, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH CARE AND FINISH TWO WARS. AND BAILED OUT THE MAY BE 21st CENTRY THE GREATEST RECESSION. rnrnrnI know Mr. McNamara was gone. What about the untested brightest and smartest guys? Are they right this time?!rnrnrnrnrn
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Dean Kamen shares how he adapted one of his inventions, a tiny drug delivery system for neonatal cancer patients, for adults with other conditions.
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Inventor Dean Kamen discusses how successful creative people fail frequently, rarely work linearly and never give up.
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In our lifetime we’re going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it’s going to change the way people get health care.
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Increasing medical bills are a fact of life, says the scientist. In fact, "we should be happy that we are such a rich society ... that we can afford to […]
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Dean Kamen jokes about how his first invention wasn’t a big seller.
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Inventor Dean Kamen calls on us to inspire children to be engineers and problem-solvers, not the next NBA or Hollywood star.
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The co-founder of FIRST talks about creativity, inspiring kids to become geeks and the myth that the US has a healthcare crisis.
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Watch Dr. Oliver Fein, one of the leading advocates for a single-payer national health plan, explore innovative new ideas for improving access and saving lives.
Japan may be one of the world leaders in developing renewable energy, but the country's green tech sector seems to be either making too much noise, or too little. Gas-electric hybrids […]
We couldn't let July 4, 2009 fade into history without a quick glance at the imbroglio over the values on which the United States was founded. Woven into the conversation […]
There is agreat need for innovations for rural areas. Since the energy and material resources available are scarce and in dilute forms there is a great need to produce very high technologies for these areas.
The dirtiest corporations in existence characterize themselves as 'green' and 'environmentally friendly.' Be Discerning! Young journalists and filmmakers force us to visually accept the reality of all the hype.