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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.
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Catalysts
How to get your kid the best teachers from anywhere in the world
This Grammy winner has written songs for Beyoncé, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. Now, he wants to teach your kids online, thanks to Outschool.
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Just Might Work
The secret lab making the most sustainable food in the world
The secret lab making the most sustainable food in the world
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Challengers
Aquaponic shipping containers: The future of food?
Imagine growing fish and vegetables in a shipping container in your closest parking spot.
The world will electrify. This technology can power our sustainable future.
Attacking climate change requires reimagining our buildings and vehicles as intelligent systems. And it all starts with a smart motor.
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Just Might Work
NYC’s nonprofit DIY internet is taking on Verizon & more
1.5 million New Yorkers lack access to high-speed internet. Can a DIY mesh internet network change that?
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Make It Count
Building homes with hemp
Cannabis was an ancient building material. Now it’s legal again – and coming to a home near you.
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Challengers
This DIY laptop is challenging tech giants like Apple & Microsoft
Disposable tech is part of big tech’s business model. This engineer is fighting back by creating a DIY laptop anyone can repair on their own.
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Make It Count
Artificial photosynthesis turns CO2 into sustainable fuel
A greener future by 2035 is in arm’s reach with this new tech decarbonizing the transportation industry.
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Challengers
This Gen-Z CEO is taking on the $20 billion tampon industry
Rehab, re-centering, and rebirth: it’s the true story of a Gen Z CEO who wanted to spearhead a movement for better period care.
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Catalysts
Beyond the classroom: Outschool gives kids the chance to follow their dreams
Watch 13-year-old Isaac’s dreams come true with a heartwarming surprise from the Stand Together community and a Dallas Cowboys legend.
How to build an inclusive economy
Our economy was designed to exclude and exploit people of color. These entrepreneurs are working to level the scales.