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  • The Revolution Will Be Mapped

    December 28, 2009 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Mebane, North Carolina

    Mapping technology has been used in creative ways to visualize discrimination on the municipal level and hold governments accountable for using methods that are hard to understand or quantify to perpetuate discrepancies. Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities in North Carolina is one of the first to do this kind of work, and their methods and expertise have spread across the nation.

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  • Harnessing the Wind with Scrap

    May 08, 2009 |

    Science in Society |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Mastala, Kusungu District

    A bright young man named William took it upon himself to bring electricity to his small, rural village in Malawi, despite having few resources at his disposal. William invented a windmill using recycled materials, and successfully generated power for his home. His incredible ingenuity attracted international attention, inspiring others as far away as Portsmouth University to design windmills that are financially and physically accessible for the world's rural poor living off the grid.

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  • French get a look at nation's UFO files

    March 23, 2007 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: France

    France was the first country to publicly release documents about government investigations of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. Around 100,000 documents were released on an online archive, with the oldest record dating back to 1937. The archive includes police and expert reports, witness sketches, maps, and photos, video, and audio recordings. The archive has about 1,650 cases on record and 6,000 witness accounts. Web traffic to the archive exceed expectations. Only 9% of reported strange phenomena have been fully explained, with 28% inexplicable despite precise testimonies and high-quality evidence.

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  • Fixing Hospitals

    June 20, 2005 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Medical errors kill 100,000 Americans every year. A new vanguard is out to fix the fatal flaws, mostly by evaluating processes and looking for points of breakdown or confusion.

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  • What the World Needs Now Is DDT

    April 11, 2004 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Ndumu

    DDT was banned in the United States in 1972 because of the harm it can cause to the natural environment when it is sprayed in mass quantities over large areas. However, spraying DDT on the walls inside of homes is the most effective way to prevent the spread of malaria in many African countries. Allowing African nations to use DDT for this purpose would save the lives of thousands of children who die each year from malaria.

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