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#1,516 – Giant Inflatable Telescopes

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We’ve come a long way when it comes to peering into the Universe, going from thinking that everything in our solar system revolved around the Earth to being able to find potentially habitable exo-planets orbiting around stars hundreds of light years away. It’s supposedly powerful enough to spot a single firefly millions of miles away.

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10 examples that show the value of cognitive diversity

Hutch Carpenter

The theories are powerful, but we respond strongly to specific examples. Predicting solar particle storms. Problem : When in space, astronauts are at risk from solar particle storms. Stopping a key enzyme that powers the AIDS virus. Tagged: cognitive diversity , crowdsourcing , InnoCentive , innovation.