• Gary Slutkin: From conflict to Ceasefire

  After spending years in Africa fighting AIDS, TB and cholera with the W.H.O., Gary Slutkin returned to Chicago and had an epiphany: the violence plaguing his hometown exhibited all the signs of an infectious disease. Learn how he’s applied epidemiological principles to reduce shootings and violent crime in inner-city Chicago neighborhoods by as much as 75% through the CeaseFire approach.

  Gary Slutkin: From conflict to Ceasefire
• James Fowler: Power of networks

  Can your social network make you fat? Affect your mood? Political scientist James H. Fowler reveals the dynamics of social networks, the invisible webs that connect each of us to the other. With Nicholas A. Christakis, Fowler recently coauthored, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.

  James Fowler: Power of networks
• Tiffani Williams on our family tree

  Tiffani Williams is a computer scientist at Texas A&M University, creating algorithmic tools to reconstruct the Tree of Life, which depicts the evolutionary connections among the world’s species. “As humans, we think we are the center of the universe, and here we are only just a little tiny speck on this tree.”

  Tiffani Williams on our family tree

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