Look to the stars, not because Earth is disappointing
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What Do Medical Experts Dream About the Future of Health?

Dr. Tiffany Vora hosts a conversation with the healthcare workers at the Sancheti Hospital during her visit to Pune, India and asks them about their highest hopes for the future of health. By harnessing exponential technology like AI, robotics, virtual reality, and more, we can dream of a future where the human touch is brought back to the center of healthcare.

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Book Recommendation: Headstrong by Rachel Swaby

Looking for a book that will expand your knowledge on the world of science? Headstrong by Rachel Swaby is a collection of 52 short and punchy chapters about women who transformed medicine, biology, physics, math, and technology. I was inspired, over and over, by how many of these women paid forward their hard work to support later generations of women in STEMM.

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Book Recommendation: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

As a scientist, I greatly enjoyed Pollan’s explorations of the neurobiology and evolutionary history of psychedelics in his 2018 book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Check out this blog to find out why I found this to be a compelling read.

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The Value of Literacy in Building Our Future

Literacy is more than the reading and writing that enables us to do everyday tasks. Reading and writing are also a major part of storytelling. Our brains assemble words into theaters where we play out thought experiments of the past, present and especially the future. Find out why and how we should care about literacy today.

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Bio-inspired Lessons from CRISPR

The world celebrates a decade of the CRISPR/Cas system, the gene editing technology that unlocked astonishing potential across innovation spaces. But what exactly is CRISPR/Cas? How does it work? What lessons can we learn from the scholarship and tenacity of Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier? Where do we go from here? This article answers these questions, and more.

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Book Recommendation: Figuring by Maria Popova

If you’re looking to nourish your soul while expanding your mind, pick up a copy of Figuring. The book’s author, Maria Popova, has the rare gift of being able to graft luminosity onto the sturdy trunk of scholarship. It’s a gift worth sharing.

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The Bio-inspired Mindset: What Aspen Trees can Teach us About Cloning and Diversity

When I was a kid growing up in Colorado, aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) were a big part of playing outside. Today, with a bio-inspired mindset, we can see analogies of nature operates to business and society. Just as genetic diversity is the fuel that drives evolution, diversity of people is creative fuel that drives innovation and revenue.

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Book Recommendation: The Signals are Talking: Why Today's Fringe is Tomorrow's Mainstream by Amy Webb

Are you kickstarting your futurism practice? I highly recommend reading this book, and setting aside time for you and your team to try out Webb’s approaches. Future forecasting is a learned skill, with the right frameworks and a great deal of practice, we can improve in identifying where the future is going - and how we can prepare ourselves, our organizations, and our societies for those futures.

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Going Back in Time: Imagining a Better Future with More Women in Tech

At a recent event, I was asked a fantastic question—possibly the best question I’ve ever been asked after a talk: If you could go back in time 50 years and change something about technology in order to impact the present, what would you change? I go back to the post-war era and re-imagine a world where women in tech had not left coding. How would our daily lives be different?

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Making the World—and the STEM Community—a More Inclusive Place

Juneteenth celebrates an important milestone in American history. I’m inspired when people shine a light on the challenges and opportunities of being part of a historically underrepresented group in STEM. Here are a couple of ways that you can start to explore this issue.

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Nurturing Our Love for the Ocean: An Integral Step for Marine Conservation

if you’ve ever wanted to scuba dive, don’t waste another day. There is simply no time to waste when it comes to experiencing the beauty and wonder of our oceans. From the poles to the equators, from reefs in the shallows to the shadows of the darkest depths, our oceans are in crisis thanks to climate change.

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