Category: interdisciplinaryinnovation
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3 Powerful Techniques For Storytelling With Data
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” — Ronald Coase, Economist Data. We know that in today’s world, it is practically another form of currency. However, despite the massive amount available, most of us still remain largely unable to interpret storytelling with data. Both fortunately and unfortunately, this skill has never been…
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AI in Healthcare: The Ultimate Cheatcode For Interdisciplinary Innovation
“We’re not building technology to replace care; we’re building it to make care better.” – Greg Corrado The AI revolution has, by now, reached into every crevice of life, including (but not limited to) healthcare. From education, research, law, and various artistic mediums, it has become the trusty unpaid intern of the world. However, it…
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7 Steps To Unlock The Power Of Biomimicry
By: Sofia Perez “Biomimicry is…the conscious emulation of life’s genius.”-Janine Benyus Without using biomimicry, companies spend a lot of effort developing “new and improved” products and services to sell to consumers: a new iPhone, a new car, new sneakers, a new watch. It always seems like the best is yet to come. Moreover, it seems…
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The Simple Questions To Leverage The Power Of Art In Disaster Recovery
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”-Pablo Picasso Even before disaster recovery, philosophers have contemplated beauty- in both nature and art- evaluating the purpose behind it. However, in the…
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5 Simple Lessons from Statistics to Drive Informed Decision-Making
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt Intro Decision-making based on data is one of the most universally demanded skills of our time. Every day, we face the…
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5 Secrets from Ecology So You Can Meaningfully Contribute to Conservation Efforts
“Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.” — Jochen Zeitz In a world faced with saddening rates of deforestation, coral reef acidification, and more, it is easy to lose hope that any single individual could meaningfully contribute to conservation efforts. This, however, is one of the tragic misconceptions of…
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5 Lessons from Journalism on How to Uncover Social Inequities
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis One of the greatest tragedies of modern journalism is the fact that the most pressing social inequities do not get the most attention. It’s true that what counts as the “most pressing” social inequities…
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9 Lessons from Economics on Driving Social Innovation
By Sofia Perez “The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.” – John Maynard Keynes Intro There is an unspoken paradox in the world of social innovation: a simultaneous awareness that “money makes the world go round”, but that it is also…
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Unlock Eco-Friendly Innovations: 4 Powerful Lessons from Engine History
By Sofia Perez “It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what’s never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.”…
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Waste Solutions Are Born From Revolutionary Art & Engineering
Understanding how art could provide solutions to waste started with Toni Hamel. First, a painting of a woman hosing a giant pine-scented car freshener in the place of a real pine tree. Then, a family of three watching intently as the wet paint on their wall dries. Finally, a woman hanging geese in the sky…