Marlin May's TedX Mind Map
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TEDX BOSTON:
Revolutionary Ideas Start Here

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HORIZONTAL RELATIONSHIPS

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Dissolves Barriers
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Essential Infrastructure
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Electronic Networks
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Idea Networks
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Cognitive Surplus

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CrowdSourcing
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Open Source Movement
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Clay Schirkey
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Wikipedia
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USHAHIDI
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The Value of Interstitial positioning
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The place where idea SYNTHESIS occurs
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People Networks
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community building
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Generations Inc

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cross generational connections
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Increase in quality of life of older adults
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Increase in success rates of participating childern
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Mary Gunn
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#BWP - Boston Works Partnerships
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks

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SUSTAINABILITY IDEAS
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Automated Home Construction
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Difra Inc.
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Lynwood Walker - CEO

Matthew Gordon - CTO

Claudia Gold - COO

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currently ≈ 10% of materials wasted in construction

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Conversion of any design into jigsaw like pieces for simple fabrication
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tab & slot, tongue & groove construction
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3D puzzles

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Pieces Laser Cut
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Minimal gap between pieces
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nearly airtight
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easy to weatherproof
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Minimal Waste
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Can be constructed from almost any laser cuttable material
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Currently engineered lumber

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Suggested composite made from bamboo
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affordable highly custom structures
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inexpensive, sturdy, quickly deployable emergency housing
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approx. $.66 ft.2!!!

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Design for Generosity
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Clay Schirkey

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ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS
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Mass Challenge

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Using MA's unique environment
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Help early stage entrepreneurs win
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address early stage investment gap
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empower novice entrepreneurs
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John Harthorne
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Cambridge Innovation

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Anything Goes Lab

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FOLLOW YOUR HEART
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ECOLOGICAL IDEAS
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OCEAN
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OCEAN S

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ALL fishing nations now fish globally
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is still mostly unexplored
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paradoxically is overexploited
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must be viewed systemically
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thermodynamic
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2007 new minimum for Artic Sea Ice
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Genetic
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Holds a large percentage of earth's biodiversity
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Biochemical
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Political
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The thawed Artic is potentially a new conflict zone
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not protected by treaty like the Antartic
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Susan Avery

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Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institituion

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We're now in the ANTHROPOCENE ERA
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Homo Sapiens is now one of the primary planetary change agents
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NOOSPHERIC IDEAS
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Extending the Social Layer beyond Face to Face
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All about connections
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Is growing the social layer complete?
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ABSOLUTELY

NOT!

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Adding a Game Layer to the World
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It's all about influence
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WAIT, isn't this what nations and business do now?
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Counters used for scoring
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appointments
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status / rank
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progression
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SCVNGR

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foursquare
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reputation (not mentioned)
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whuffie

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communal discovery
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Seth Priebatsch

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TECHNOLOGICAL IDEAS
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Bill Staby
Resolute Marine Energy

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Wave Energy
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Predictable
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Water waves 800X more energy dense than wind
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Financing a problem
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Accessible to a large % of the population
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people near coastlines
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waves are stored wind energy
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can provide approx 8% of energy
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technology is where wind tech was 10y ago
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wind and wave energy are complimentary
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regulatory climate
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Little to no visual impact from shore
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waves are a public resource
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Desalinization
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South Africa
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People with a critical need for fresh water
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Lots of coastline
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Near the Roaring 40's
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Aquaculture
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Alex Bok

Boston Power

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Batteries
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Required for widespread adoption of wind and wave energy
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decentralized energy storage
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sell during peak usage hours
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store during off peak hours
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Well really most of them are
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ECONOMIC IDEAS
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Economic Success
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What defines success?
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Now
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Decrease in the % of intergenerational poverty
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Codman Square Health Center

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Programs Beyond Medical Care
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People Networks
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Bill Walczak
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How many are healthy
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Then
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How many with insurance
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A Theory of Economic Diversity
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Loosely based on LEGO
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How many capabilities does a country have?
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LEGO Blocks
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The more capabilities, the more products & the more complex products
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The more complex the economy, the greater the income potential
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How does a country gain capabilities?
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Strategic development of capabilities which increase the number and complexity of products produced
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Complexity matters
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A network view of economics
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A modular view of economics
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César Hildago

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Designing for Generosity
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A TRILLION hours per year in participatory hours
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Cognitive Surplus
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Free Cultures get what they Celebrate - Dean Kamen

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USHIDI
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Remove protective sugar tarriffs and corn subsidies
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I missed this person's name.
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EDUCATION IDEAS
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Education begins with representation
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Quote from Goethe regarding connection between visualization and education / learning. What the hell was it?
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Picturing to Learn

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Students can clarify their own understanding of scientific concepts and processes by creating drawings that explain these concepts to non-experts.
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Felice Frankel

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No Small Matter

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Combine the ancient with the innovative
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Muhan Zhang
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Plays the ERHU - an ancient Mongolian bowed stringed instrument

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Fidelity Future Stage Winner

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Played with a Trio: Himself on Erhu, Po-Nung Lin on Computer  & Kimberly Huang on Flute (if I remember correctly)

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Citizen Schools

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Change the Game
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The Game Layer
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Citizen Teachers
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People Networks
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The City as Classroom
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Educational Duty <> Jury Duty
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John Werner

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MacCalvin Romain
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Swag Media
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I can't find the web site...
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227 Colleges and Universities in New England
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HOMEWORK IS HELL
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Social Networks force you to deal with fear
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You have to make good on your promises
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You must tolerate uncertainty
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You have to risk having your reality tunnel invalidated
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You have to risk getting it wrong
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Eric Mongeon

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4 By Poe

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CULTURAL IDEAS
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The Big Sort

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People moving to counties / districts with like minded people
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Transforms demoncracy from a moderating force into a multiplicative / polarizing force
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Can this be reversed?
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Localocracy.org

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Promotes civil civic dialogue
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Conor White-Sullivan

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In 1976, only about a quarter of America's voters lived in a county a presidential candidate won by a landslide margin. By 2004, it was nearly half.
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The Rise of the Citizen Scientist
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Frank Reynolds
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InVivo Theraputics

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Treatments for Spinal Cord Injuries
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Preventing / revrsing secondary injury from inflamation & bleeding
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Biomaterials & Stem Cells
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Injectables & Implants
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Have they approached the DoD / VA?
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DoD/VA Not Interested
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UMASS Innovation Challenge

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We need a New England Cultural Revolution
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MassChallenge
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Keep New England's Innovators in New England
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neinnovation.com

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How will you measure your life?
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Apply some revolutionary ideas to your life.
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be deliberately strategic
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Aggregate Project Planning
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Deliberate Strategies
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planned, proactive
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Emergent Strategies
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ad hoc, retroactive
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Ann Christensen
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Daughter of Clayton Christensen

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AESTHETIC IDEAS
Arts & Architecture

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Artists for Humanity

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Funded by Sales
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Urban Opportunity
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Community Service
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Susan Rodgerson

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Difra, Inc.
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Re-use Abandoned Subway Stations
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Tremont Underground Theater Space [TUTS]

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Boston
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Old Tremont Station
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The same model can be use for other stations
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Sapir Ng

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POLITICAL IDEAS
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Citizen Funded Elections
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To blunt the effect of money on government
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So Damned Much Money

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Cape Wind: 9 years of red tape, 10,000 pages of documentation
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Deepwater Horizon: 7 pages of documentation, ruled exempt from regulation
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Childhood Obesity & Diabetes
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Sugar is Protected
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Sugar is more expensive than it should be
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Hight Fructose Corn Syrup is Everywhere
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Corn is heavily Subsidized
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Corn Syrup is less expensive than it should be
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I don't remember who's node this is.
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Lawrence Lessig

 

 

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