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John Kasaona
updated March 16, 2013 - 12 linksJohn Kasaona is a leader in the drive to reinvent conservation in Namibia -- turning poachers into protectors of species. #TED #TED2010 #Namibia #People
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Mike Feinberg/ Dave Levin
updated February 11, 2013 - 13 links - recommended by 2 peopleMike Feinberg and Dave Levin are co-founder of KIPP. KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life. There are currently 82...
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George Whitesides
updated March 11, 2013 - 14 links - recommended by 1 personGeorge M. Whitesides (b. August 3, 1939, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. As of March 2008, he has the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists. #TED #TED2010 #People #Chemist #Harvard #TEDxBoston
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Chip Conley
updated February 11, 2013 - 14 linksChip Conley (born 1960, Orange, California) is an American hotelier, author, and speaker. Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which he began in 1987 at age 26. #TED #TED2010 #People #Author #Hotelier
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Michael Sandel
updated February 16, 2013 - 15 linksMichael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard. His new book, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, explores some of the most hotly contested moral and political issues of our time. #TED #TED2010
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John Underkoffler
updated August 02, 2012 - 11 links - recommended by 1 personJohn Steven Underkoffler was born in Pennsylvania under a large tree. He spent half his life reading Goethe under that tree, and the other half under a different tree, building dams. He shimmers sometimes in the moonlight and when he goes home late at night, he illuminates...
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Christopher "moot" Poole
updated February 29, 2012 - 16 links - recommended by 1 personChristopher "moot" Poole is the founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering - and influential - subculture. #TED #TED2010
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Kevin Bales
updated February 29, 2012 - 16 linksKevin Bales is a world expert on slavery and has freed many slaves. He is president of Free the Slaves, an organization whose mission is to end slavery and share slaves' stories. Bales was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book Disposable People: New Slavery...
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Stewart Brand
updated February 29, 2012 - 16 linksStewart Brand is a futurist, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline...
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Mark Z. Jacobson
updated February 29, 2012 - 15 linksMark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Stanford University and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program there. Jacobson develops computer models about the effects of different energy technologies and their emissions on air pollution...
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Valerie Plame Wilson
updated February 29, 2012 - 10 links - recommended by 1 personValerie Plame Wilson is a former CIA operative whose covert identity was revealed in 2003. During her CIA career, she ran counter-proliferation task forces, ultimately focusing on Iraq and the hunt for WMDs. #TED #TED2010
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Elizabeth Pisani
updated August 02, 2012 - 11 linksElizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a journalist and epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of #AIDS. #TED #TED2010 #People #Journalist #Epidemiologist
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Nicholas A. Christakis
updated February 29, 2012 - 13 linksNicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist. His current research focuses on health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health, disability, health behavior, health care, and death in one person can influence the same phenomena...
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Michael Specter
updated August 02, 2012 - 10 linksNew Yorker Staff Writer Covering Science, Technology, and Public Health Issues; Author. #TED #TED2010 #People #Author #Writer #Health
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Michael Shermer
updated August 02, 2012 - 15 linksAs founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, alien sightings and other popular beliefs and paranoias. But it's not about debunking for debunking's sake...
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Esther Duflo
updated March 19, 2013 - 18 linksEsther Duflo (born October 25, 1972) is a French economist, currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also co-founder of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and in 2009 was...
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Philip K. Howard
updated August 02, 2012 - 15 linksPhilip K. Howard (born 1948), a lawyer in New York, is perhaps best known as the author of the book The Death of Common Sense (1995), which chronicles the effects of modern law acts like central planning. #TED #Lawyer #People #Author #TED2010
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Daniel Kahneman
updated August 02, 2012 - 12 linksDaniel Kahneman (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology. In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (officially...
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Sam Harris
updated February 29, 2012 - 12 linksSam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed...
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Benoit Mandelbrot
updated August 02, 2012 - 11 links - recommended by 1 personBenoît B. Mandelbrot (born 20 November 1924) is a French and American mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center;...
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