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Innovative Use of Online Networks Transforming Society
If you're going to keep up with Ben MacKrell, you'll need two things: a cell phone and an account at Facebook or a similar Web site that falls under the loose term "social networking."
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Young Innovator Profile: Michael Wong
Describing his idea to use gold to clean up toxic waste, Michael Wong says, "I admit it does sound crazy." Wong plans to combine gold with palladium — an even more precious metal — to treat polluted groundwater beneath waste dumps and contaminated factories and military sites. "It not only works faster [than current methods], but a hundred times faster," Wong says, "and I bet it will be cheaper too."
Innovation Transfers Benefit Public and Private Sectors
Fashion design that might one day be adapted to protect the Army?
That is possible because of innovative work by a Cornell University student whose design has caught the eye of U.S. Army scientists. Designer Olivia Ong put together two ensembles using silver nanoparticles in 2007 to eliminate health threats from microbes. The garments also incorporate palladium nanoparticles designed to reduce the effects of air pollutants.
From an Iranian Childhood of More Work than Play, a Tycoon Rises
Were you to talk to Isaac Larian about his childhood in Iran, he would not wax nostalgic over childhood games or playthings. In fact, he would tell you that when his friends and cousins played or went on vacation, he did 'constant, hard work' helping his father run a retail textile business.