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Cassini’s final dive, and more news from TED speakers

By Rebekah Barnett, Blake Rumuly and Lorena Aviles Trujillo

on Sep 22, 2017

As usual, the TED community has lots of news to share this week. Below, some highlights. Farewell to Cassini — and here’s to the continuing search for life beyond Earth. In mid-August, PBS released a digital short featuring Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging team for the Cassini mission to […]

Michael v. Michael: A debate on how (or if) business can solve social problems

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Oct 6, 2013

Their names may both be Michael. They may even both be professors at Harvard. But Michael Porter and Michael Sandel offer up radically different ideas on business and its potential for good in their TED Talks, both released today. While Porter suggests that businesses are in a great position to tackle social problems — because […]