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- Biologists spent ten years trying to map the structure of the elusive Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus, a problem that could unlock the cure for AIDS. The Contenders solved it in three weeks. Using the online puzzle game Fold It, scientists are enlisting video gamers to solve real- world problems. Fold It allows regular people from all over the world to team up and contribute to scientific breakthroughs by discovering the shape of proteins. The Contenders is one such team. How did these citizen scientists solve a problem that was once thought uncomputable?
- Dr Edie Widder is a biologist and a deep sea explorer. She's been fascinated with bioluminescent sea creatures since she her very first dives in the ocean. Using her underwater photography, we travel through the cabinet of curiosities that floats beneath the sea: creatures that sparkle, that fizz, that send of puffs of smoke. Edie explains how bioluminescent sea creatures possess special properties - their special light isn't just pretty, it has remarkable properties that can help us in the fight against pollution. Edie shows us some simple science: in her laboratory, she mixes a sample of sediment with a Vibrio fischeri - a common bioluminescent bacteria, easy to mix and use. She shows us how the light given off by the bacteria will dim in a polluted sample - if it dims quickly, the sample is very polluted, and if it dims slowly, the sample is relatively clean. From these samples, Edie creates "pollution maps" of waterways near cities. Edie takes us from the ocean world, to a world of science, and back to the world above. This is the story of how all things are connected, and how the smallest things in the ocean can have the most surprising properties.
- The Sky Is NOT The Limit profiles Peter Diamandis, his character and passion to dream big, through his work as founder and visionary behind the X Prize Foundation. From his recent successes (e.g. the 2011 Oil Clean Up X Prize) to his vision for the next big thing - revolutionizing global health care by partnering with communications companies to bring the knowledge of the medical world to people in developing and rural areas without easy access to doctors - the film envisions the world through Diamandis' inspired point of view, mixing dynamic visuals of recent X Prize challenges with artful animated sequences to visually express Diamandis' vision of a world of abundance.
- ROBOT is set in the Yale Social Robotics Lab where Brian Scassellati designs robots we enjoy being around and are helpful in our homes and schools. The film features NICO and KEEPON, robots who are becoming socially intelligent: they teach us lessons, learn to dance and even cheat while playing games with us.
- MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor and inventor Ge Wang who teaches computer music at Stanford University where he began the innovative Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes everyone who loves music should be able to play it. To that end, Wang was the first to turn the IPhone into a musical instrument when he created the "Ocarina" phone app which became one of the most popular in the world when it was launched in 2009.
- You're humming along, tapping your toe, maybe nodding your head, listening to your favorite song, the artist's vocals ascending higher and higher up the scale to that heart-stopping, tear inducing pitch perfect note. Flawless. Inhuman? Auto-tune is transforming music. Listening will never be the same.
- In today's context of biological and ecological destruction caused by chemical farming, industrial agriculture and genetic engineering, the film explores the core philosophy of "Navdanya" movement ignited by Dr. Vandana Shiva who believes seed is a gift of life, heritage and continuity and saving seeds leads to conserving biodiversity, knowledge, culture and sustainability.
- Panmela Castro was born and raised in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has own personal history and desire to make people aware of Domestic Violence Against Women through graffiti art. Panmela is proof that no matter how young you are, you have the power to make change. She created an organization called Rede Nami. Through these organization, Panmela Castro uses her graffiti to help spread the word, and so she took to the streets of Rio's hillside favelas, partnering with human-rights organizations to turn underground public art into messages condemning domestic violence. She travels the world with her art and has been honored with numerous international awards for her social work, including the Diller Von Furstenberg Family Foundation for Extraordinary Women, the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award for human rights, and, on 2012, she was nominated by the Newsweek magazine one of the 150 women that are shaking the world. The strength and the focus of these young activist, whose artistic work has been denouncing, protecting and even saving lives.
- Interface designer Dr. Diane Gromala has experienced chronic pain for the last 25 years. Working with concepts of mindfulness meditation--where a patient focuses on their pain to control it--Dr. Gromala and her team have built an immersive virtual reality environment that essentially allows patients to interface with the self by using biofeedback and sensory cues to modulate pain levels.
- Who would dare to pit one fatal disease against another... inside the body of an six-year-old patient? Dr. Carl June and his team of researchers and scientists at Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have taken cliff-hanging risks in their patients' treatment. With profound results, their medical trials are shattering long-held expectations in the field of cancer research.
- For over 25,000 poverty-stricken children in China, a "free lunch" is their daily reality. Journalist Deng Fei set up the Free Lunch Campaign in 2011, raised USD 3.9 million from Chinese social media users in just one year and pioneered the power of micro-blogging in China's battle against inequality.