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Challengers
Can robots save our oceans from poachers?
23% of fish sold in the US is caught illegally. This robot boat is a poacher’s worst nightmare.
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Catalysts
This restaurant only hires recovering drug users
After addiction killed 13 of their employees, this restaurant devoted itself to helping people in recovery.
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Catalysts
Can creativity solve our mental health crisis?
This nonprofit prescribes art and creativity for better mental health.
Getting your piece of the data economy
Every day, Netflix, Google, and Facebook make billions off of your data. Should you get a cut?
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Hard Reset
We’re using our streets all wrong
COVID-19 turned city streets into pop-up restaurants. What if we didn’t go back?
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Just Might Work
Inside the lab inventing “coffee” without beans to save the planet
Almost all of the last wild forests will have to be destroyed to support the growth of coffee.
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Challengers
Frozen out of homeownership, millennials explore co-buying
Nuclear families are no longer the norm. This family business is helping homeownership adapt.
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Just Might Work
Tornado Alley miracle: A 100% accurate tornado sensor invented by accident
Can this recycled technology save the citizens of Tornado Alley?
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Catalysts
Teen helps 52-year-old pursue high school diploma
30 years after dropping out of school, this factory worker is trying to get his high school diploma—with the help of a teen tutor on the internet.
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Hard Reset
Inside Zoox: The robot vehicle totally changing transportation
Take an exclusive ride in the vehicle with no steering wheel that’s aiming to make car ownership a thing of the past.
The nation’s most diverse unite for change
“This injustice and discrimination was codified by law… If we know how embedded this is, the solutions we’ve pushed for have to be bigger and bolder than before.”
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Hard Reset
Inside the lab growing leather from mushrooms
Even Hermès is using this ‘shroom leather. Are biomaterials going mainstream?
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Catalysts
Why do good teachers quit?
The best teachers are leaving education at a frightening pace. Can an alternative approach to education help keep them around?
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Challengers
The startup taking down corrupt prison communications to keep families connected
This scrappy startup founder wants to take down for-profit prison communications. And he’s backed by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and former Google Chief Eric Schmidt.
The key to cybersecurity? Controlling chaos
The second law of thermodynamics states that complexity always increases. That rule is more true than ever before when it comes to today’s cybersecurity challenges.
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Hard Reset
What if we restarted civilization from scratch in 2022?
If we could redesign the world from scratch, what should we do differently? Find out in all-new episodes of Freethink’s Hard Reset coming in January 2022.
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Catalysts
This school without grades or homework has a 98% college acceptance rate
No homework. Grades you can change. This school is challenging everything about our approach to education – and it’s working with a 98% college acceptance rate.
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Challengers
Shipping is broken. Flexport’s CEO has a plan to fix the supply chain
Supply chains are collapsing under pressure. Can new technology make them resilient?
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Just Might Work
Fast fashion is killing the planet. These chemists are fighting back
Your clothes are mostly plastic. These chemists have figured out how to recycle them.
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Challengers
How Brian Armstrong built Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange
No one took him seriously. Now, his company stores more than $90 billion dollars in assets. Here’s how Brian Armstrong rode a cryptocurrency tsunami to the forefront of a financial revolution.