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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Paul Saffo analyses the shift in power from producers in the industrial economy, to marketers in the consumer economy. He predicts that new “economic actors” who create and consume simultaneously […]
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Paul Saffo says technology shouldn’t be exploited to just cut costs or do old things more efficiently, it should be a catalyst for doing new things in entirely different ways.
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Paul Saffo’s recommendation to companies conserving cash: don’t confuse the short-term financial crisis with long-term trends.
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Paul Saffo analyzes the historic patterns of technology innovation and adoption, and predicts their impact on entrepreneurship.
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Harvard Professor David Scadden envisions a future where medicines activate stem cells already in our bodies. The pharmaceutical industry is taking notice.
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Harvard Professor David Scadden discusses the wonder of self-replenishing stems cells, and reveals scientific findings that might enable any stem cell to be reprogrammed as an embryonic stem cell.
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The Yale University Director worries that consumers need a PhD to understand what they’re eating. He proposes simplifying food labels so everyone can be a nutritional expert.
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A conversation with Director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center.
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David L. Katz insists access to healthcare is a basic human right and proposes reforms to incentivize preventative care.
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When the Atkins Diet took off into the stratosphere, every supermarket stocked low-carb foods. Nutrition expert David L. Katz wants to achieve the same thing with healthy foods generally.
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The weight management expert developed a school program, and released it into the public domain, called Activity Burst in the Classroom (ABC) that helps restless children release their energies.
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David L. Katz counsels overweight and obese people to be healthy by discussing “medical absolution”–you are partly responsible for your excess weight, but not to blame.
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Starting with African American churches and community leaders in Connecticut, medical expert David L. Katz wants to put the findings of the Diabetes Prevention Program to work in every town […]
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When it comes to preventing chronic disease, the gap between knowledge and action belies the notion that knowledge is power, according to health expert David L. Katz.
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Quoting the Spiderman movie–“with great power comes great responsibility”–David L. Katz implores health professions to empower people before requesting they take responsibility for their well being.
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Weight management expert David L. Katz criticizes technological advances that have created lifestyles at odds with physical activity and healthy diets.
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Health expert David L. Katz discusses the complexity of nutrition and how he became interested in preventative medicine.
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In partnership with Pfizer, Big Think presents an online forum on breakthroughs in medicine featuring presentations by top figures in the fields of personal genomics and pandemics.