The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was a passionate advocate for women’s right to speak out and influence change, and...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Now you are welcome to download a virtual van Gogh without having to pay an arm, a leg or an ear for...
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Trainee pilots get flight simulators and now medical students get 3D printed artificial organs that can be poked, prodded and...
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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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Satellite Archeology is all about perspective. From the outer edges of the planet’s atmosphere, where sky meets space, the view...
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Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail set up Aware Girls when she was just 16-years-old to empower women and girls in her country....
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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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Submitted by you: Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project has been dedicated to the protection of wild and captive dolphins worldwide since...
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'Forthright: Stronger than a weapon' – straight forward, direct – is a book and ongoing project that follows different artists in...
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Submitted by you: The impetus for Stories Behind The Fog is to challenge a single-minded view of homelessness by rendering its...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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The late great comedian Bill Hicks said that we have, “just a single choice, between fear and love.” Too often,...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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They say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", but that is not computed by 84-year-old Annie Middelburg, who...
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When a young South African woman and her childhood friends created social startup Rethaka with the aim of making a small impact on the world,...
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Submitted by you: The UnSchool is an experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents that teaches the 'Disruptive...
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Physical limitations don’t necessarily mean a limited life. All that is needed is a new perspective - and Argentine Pitu Blazquez is...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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We don’t really think too much about the story behind the soap that we wash with, but this is a...
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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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Frustrated that black girls are almost never the main character in children's literature, and tired of only reading about "white boys and...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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The next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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The sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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Two students who connected over a shared interest in invention and problem-solving have designed a pair of gloves that translate American Sign...
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Now more than ever, small teams with limited means have the ability to innovate in ways that only large companies...
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Planned to sail in 2020, Peace Boat’s Ecoship will be the world’s most sustainable cruise ship – and a flagship...
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If you’ve ever felt like you can’t face watching the news then you’re not alone. Research shows that people often...
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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Sencity is a training programme run by the Skyway Foundation in which young deaf and hard-of-hearing people organise sense-stimulating music events...
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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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Built on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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Nairobi's minibus taxis carry over three million people around the city every day. The loud and tightly packed matatu buses...
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The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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“What’s it like to be a real life Weki or Femi?” asks the blog for gritty teen drama MTV Shuga. Weki...
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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In the woods of Maine is a US Summer Camp like no other. Travelling thousands of miles from their homes...
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In Sweden up until the 21st century, there was no way to describe female genitalia other than using a clinical...
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GEOCOCO – Geography of Corporal Consciousness – is a form of therapy designed to enhance our daily lives by improving...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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As we power forward into the future, many institutions have struggled to keep up. While education has changed the least...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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Today there is more content out there than ever, but digital doesn’t necessarily equal accessible. Millions of people worldwide suffer...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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