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The Global Apollo Program: Making renewable energy cheaper than coal
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The Global Apollo Program aims to assemble the greatest scientific minds to tackle renewable energy development.
18 Sep 15
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An app monitors personal experiences with antidepressants
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Start is a six-week digital programme, designed to help people figure out whether their antidepressant is working for them.
18 Sep 15
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Death is an opportunity for design
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Ideo and the Zen Hospice Project have pioneered the way to an expressive, palatable death.
18 Sep 15
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Jo-anne Kowalski rewrites the rules of the textile industry
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Copenhagen-based textile designer Jo-anne Kowalski is continually learning and unlearning her way around her industry’s technologies.
18 Sep 15
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Community activists are helping fight malnutrition in Angola
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Trained Angolan volunteers treat approximately 50 children a week using Valid International's acute malnutrition programme.
18 Sep 15
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A true-to-scale illustration of our solar system
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Design Thinking
Two space boffins have built a true-to-scale model of the solar system in the Nevada Desert, and it's mesmerizing.
18 Sep 15
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Jo Ratcliffe's black and white images show the eerie silence that remains after war
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Photographer Jo Ratcliffe investigates how the land we live on can bear the permanent, emotional marks of its history. In this series she focuses on Angola.
18 Sep 15
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Buddy: The next generation smart wearable for dogs
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Product Design
Lighting, GPS tracking, health sensors, and home automation are all features in Squeaker’s new dog collar.
17 Sep 15
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Botswana's solar hearing aid goes global
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African Design
Six years ago, Deaftronics created a solar-powered hearing aid battery charger from a workshop in Botswana. Now, the tech is going global.
17 Sep 15
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Burkina Faso is home to Francophone Africa’s first “fab lab”
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African Design
Burkina Faso is home to OugaLab, the first fabrication lab in the French-speaking region of Africa.
17 Sep 15
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