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Good news for Florida woman, can see after 23 years of blindness

After 23 years of blindness, Mary Ann Franco miraculously regained her vision

Mary Ann Franco

Mary Ann Franco is a former nurse who lives in Okeechobee, Florida. Always an active and spunky sort of personality, Mary Ann was driving to work in 1993 when she suddenly found herself in need of medical treatment. A car accident ruptured several disks in her spine. She was whisked into emergency surgery

Mentoring the Entrepreneurs of the Future

Airbnb’s Head of Global Operations brings her passion, energy and international vision to tomorrow’s business leaders.

As a mentor to emerging companies such as kstart Incubator, Varsha Rao shares her experience and the skills, to help solidify the next generation of global entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. Rao focuses on what she describes as three keys to leadership:

*Confidence: Believing…

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Bringing Light and Life to Sub-Saharan Africa

A giant solar-powered computer is bringing electricity, internet and clean water to rural Ghana

Sub-Saharan Africa consists of 42 countries, including Ghana, Nigeria, and Sudan. The International Energy Agency statistics indicate that as many as 625 million residents of Sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity—68% of the total population. In fact, the World Bank states that 25 nations in…

Using Freezing Sea Water to Heat Large Buildings

Can Seawater Replace Fossil Fuels?

Harvesting heat from the freezing waters of the sea

There are millions of fish in the sea, as they say, but it turns out there might be a million dollar payback in those deep sea waters.

Using Green Technology to Reduce the Energy Bill

Alaska SeaLife Center, located in Seward, is an ocean wildlife rescue center and aquarium. Constructed in 1995 and the largest…

Virtual Reality Brings You Inside Earthquake-torn Nepal

The awesome power of Virtual Reality lets you experience the post-earthquake Nepalese danger zone

Last April, 2015, a tremendous earthquake, close to 8 on the Richter scale, struck Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people. Today, much of the country’s infrastructure lies in ruins. Among the most impacted are Nepal’s thousands of children who not only lost their homes and perhaps parents, but also…

Acoustic Scarecrows: Saving the Lives of Birds and Humans

Removing birds from danger zones in a non-lethal way

Ever find yourself in a place where there is so much noise you can’t hear yourself think? Or tried to have a conversation at a rock concert? If you’re like me, you run out gasping for quiet. Turns out birds are just like us.

Birds Talk

All that chirping may sound like just noise to us, but for birds, every chirp means something important. There…

Drip Irrigation for California’s Rice Growers

Good news for California farmers dealing with crippling drought conditions

The Lundberg family began farming rice in 1937. For decades, they have developed a reputation not only for tasty and healthy rice, but also for their organic and environmentally-friendly farming practices. However, rice farming requires a lot of water. In fact, is one of the most water intensive of California’s crops.

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pharmaceuticals developing electroceuticals to treat disease through implanted electronic devices that will alter nerve cell transmissions.

For decades, billions of dollars have been invested in drug development based on biology and chemistry. But this is changing. Drug development of the future is exploiting the electrical grid in our bodies to attack disease.This is good news for millions of patients who can look to a future without pills.

The body’s information highway

Healing the body through electronics is not new, but the goal…

Smart Technology Comes to the Family Farm

We have smartphones, smart homes, and smart clothing, and now smart farms.

Forget about rising at dawn, while it is still dark to head out to the barn to milk the cows. Now there are robots. And not just to milk the cows. Robots are driving the tractorstoo. No more riding the fence to see how the herd is doing, or the condition of the grazing lands. Now we have drones flying over the farm…