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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010It has been three weeks since the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in early January, reducing much of its capitol city of Port-au-Prince to debris and claiming over 170,000 lives. Hitting just 16 miles west of the capitol, the quake destroyed much of the impoverished nation’s infrastructure - leveling entire blocks of commercial [...]
Our Commitment to Space Exploration - a Complex Calculation
Saturday, January 30th, 2010‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.’
- Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969
There are other words, more well-known, that capture the momentous occasion of man’s first step on a planet not our own. However, it is these first words that most represent the culmination of nearly two decades of effort taken by NASA engineers - [...]
Javed Abidi - Giving Visibility and Hope to India’s Disabled
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Power and compassion - these two words can sum up the focus behind Javed Abidi’s mission. As an impassioned advocate for India’s disabled citizens, he has given voice to an ‘invisible minority‘ - one that has been denied to them by both political and social sectors for decades. It is a subject that he understands [...]
Avatar Raises the Bar for Moviemaking Tech
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Following up Titanic was never going to be an easy task. Director James Cameron’s 1997 ’star-crossed lovers on a doomed ocean liner’ saga shattered existing box office records, netting $1.8 billion worldwide and earning 11 Oscars. He accepted his Best Director award with the memorable ‘I’m the king of the world!’ quote from the film, [...]
Florence Nightingale - An Early Social Entrepreneur
Monday, January 4th, 2010In the century since her death, the name of Florence Nightingale has become synonymous with kindness. But while recognizable to all, just who she was - and how influential her life’s work has been in the ensuing decades - is still shrouded in mystery. She is an icon - for healthcare workers, professional women, social [...]
Without Limits - Disabled Artists Challenge Convention
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009‘Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.’
- Terry Josephson
The output of any artist is a highly personalized mix of elements - talents (both innate and developed), mastery of technique, distinct world view and their reaction to limitations. It is what makes art compelling and worthwhile, that one artist presented [...]
The Gift of Life - Bone Marrow Donations
Friday, December 18th, 2009It is a gift that can’t be bought, boxed or bound with ribbons. It doesn’t require AA batteries or a few turns of a screwdriver. This holiday season, as thousands of children eagerly await the promise of Christmas morning, 4-year old Maya Chamberlin is waiting for something far more precious than this year’s hottest toy [...]
Bob Ballard - Deep Sea Explorer Extraordinaire
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Explorer Bob Ballard knows that there’s more to our world than meets the eye. From discovering the existence of creatures living in total darkness to developing the technologies that enable deep-sea exploring, he has uncovered a world that has been mostly unknown to even the brightest scientific minds. And, after a career spent revealing some [...]
Rockefeller Foundation - Creating the Mold for Big Philanthropy
Friday, December 11th, 2009‘Gain all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.’
- John Wesley
It is a fitting maxim for America’s first billionaire and the founder of one of the country’s oldest major philanthropic organizations, the Rockefeller Foundation. Industrialist, robber baron, monopolist or mankind’s greatest benefactor - history has not yet passed its verdict [...]
ADHD and Composers
Friday, December 4th, 2009The myriad of factors responsible for the development of ADHD may be still largely unknown to us, but while medical research into the causes of the disorder is only recently beginning to shed some light on the condition and its genesis, the symptoms have been well-documented throughout the centuries. This idea appears most notably in [...]
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