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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 31, 2016

This week we learned about German bacteriologists who picked a powerful new antibiotic made by a microbe that lives in people’s noses, a leaf-like solar cell that turns CO2 into usable fuel and an arctic heatwave that released anthrax spores from decades-old frozen reindeer. There’s more Proceed with caution.

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disease-control

Jason Rao and David Silbey: We Need a Whole of Society Approach to Global Health Security

Jason Rao Director Of International Affairs At American Society For Microbiology
David Silbey Associate Director Of The Cornell In Washington Program And An Adjunct Associate History Professor At Cornell University
March 01, 2016

From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Jason Rao of the American Society for Microbiology and David Silbey of Cornell University discuss the importance of collaboration between governments and NGOs in containing a disease outbreak.

 
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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response

Andrew Tatem Worldpop
December 19, 2014
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing world that lack much of the fixed infrastructure taken for granted elsewhere. This makes them an excellent potential source of information about population movements.
 
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Perspectives

How Big Data Can Help Contain Ebola — Q&A with Joy Alamgir

Joy Alamgir Xerox
December 02, 2014
When a disease outbreak strikes, it’s often the fear of the unknown that causes panic — rather than any sense of the actual risk of falling ill. Just ask people who were in Dallas or New York City when cases of Ebola were discovered there.
 
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Nadeem Ishaque: Imaging the Brain in Real-Time

Nadeem Ishaque GE
October 02, 2014
Isaac Asimov described the human brain as “the most complicated organization of matter that we know.” Despite extraordinary advancements in multiple disciplines of science and technology over the last 100 years, our knowledge of the brain remains in its infancy.
 
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