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PopTech Videos: PopCasts

Summary: PopTech is an extraordinary three-day summit bringing together over 700 visionary thinkers in the sciences, technology, business, design, the arts, education, social development, government, and culture to explore the cutting-edge ideas, emerging technologies and new forces of change that are shaping our collective future. Now you can take the energy and inspiration that is PopTech with you anywhere, with these video and audio podcasts. PopCasts let you join the conversation and engage in the extraordinary work that had its start in Camden , Maine . Are you ready to accept the challenges issued by the thinkers and innovators who move PopTech audiences, year after year?

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 David Agus: Disease data | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1178

David Agus envisions a new era of preventative medicine based on hard data about what really ails us, and that employs research, genetics and health care designed to stave off disease before it starts. “I want doctors to be more like weather forecasters and not biologists.”

 Jim Olson: Tumor paint | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1213

Jim Olson invented a potentially revolutionary “tumor paint” that locates and lights up tumor cells to show surgeons exactly what to excise. “In a few years, surgeons will have a hard time going back to surgery as they did it in the past.”

 Rodney Mullen: Getting back up | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1217

Skating legend Rodney Mullen describes how his sport can be physically, psychologically and creatively demanding, and why it is a metaphor for striving in life. “What we do as skateboarders is we fall. We get back up and we fall.”

 Jennifer Leaning: Keys to human security | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1234

Dr. Jennifer Leaning is the director of the Harvard François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, and the FXB professor of the practice of health and human rights at Harvard School of Public Health. She travels the world researching human security. “I’m looking at the ways in which you can promote health and well-being through time in the setting of war and disaster.”

 Ann Masten: Inside resilient children | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1138

Ann Masten is a professor at the University of Minnesota who studies resilience in young people exposed to poverty, homelessness, migration, disaster, war and other adversities. “The most powerful protective system for a human child is a loving, caring family.”

 Moran Cerf: Hacking the brain | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 884

Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who has shown how to project patients’ thoughts onto a screen in front of their eyes by implanting electrodes deep inside their brains and reading the activity of cells. Oh, and he used to rob banks. “There are at least two people inside our mind.”

 Sandro Galea: Rebounding after trauma | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1174

Sandro Galea is a doctor and epidemiologist who has researched the role of traumatic events in shaping population health; particularly the health of urban populations. “Ninety percent of people in this country will have a traumatic event in their lifetime.”

 David Eagleman: Brain over mind? | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1345

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His areas of research include time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system. He is a pioneer on the power of the unconscious brain. “Are we free to choose how we act? Is the mind equal to the brain?”

 Burnham & Jónsson: Freeing Internet innovation | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 816

Brad Burnham is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Ari Jónsson is the rector of Reykjavik University, Iceland’s leading university in technology, business and law. They discuss the creation in Iceland of an ideal policy framework for innovation on the Internet.

 Adrian Anantawan: Accessible music | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1045

Born without a right hand, Adrian Anantawan began the violin at nine and has since established himself as a rising star in classical music. He helped to create the Virtual Chamber Music Initiative at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab Centre — a cross-collaborative project that develops adaptive musical instruments for use by young persons with disabilities within a chamber music setting.

 Asenath Andrews: The school for self reliance | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1078

Asenath Andrews founded the Catherine Ferguson Academy, an alternative public high school in Detroit for teen mothers that also provides early education services for their children. The school blends an innovative curriculum with urban farming and a healthy dose of high expectations. “If I expect that you are going to have a future, then you expect it.”

 Amanda Ripley: Ask the kids | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1102

Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. “Kids have strong opinions about school. We forget as adults how much time they sit there contemplating their situation.”

 Young Guru: Capitalizing on "free" | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 102

Revered as “The Sound of New York,” Young Guru has mixed 10 of Jay-Z’s albums and officially became Jay-Z’s tour D.J. in 2010. He is also a leader in adapting to a challenging music business. “It is always vibe over money."

 Young Guru borrows a beat | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 215

Revered as “The Sound of New York,” Young Guru has mixed 10 of Jay-Z’s albums and officially became Jay-Z’s tour D.J. in 2010. Watch him borrow a beat from Al Green to show the fine line between art and piracy.

 Jay Silver: Art everywhere | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 657

Jay Silver is an inventor who created Makey Makey, a kit that allows users to turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the Internet, like creating a piano out of bananas. He endorses art that is a “hodge-podge of different collections of contributions reflecting everyone’s own internal inspirations, kind of the way nature is, but for humans.”

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