From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Code Monkey get up. Code Monkey go to job. Code Monkey have boring meeting. With boring manager Rob. Want more from singer/songwriter and Pop!Tech balladeer Jonathan Coulton? Download podcast, Monkey.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Toy designer Caleb Chung—famous for creating 1998’s hot toy of the year, “Furby” — provides a playful peak into his wild creative process. He reveals that his recipe for success is to blend the uniquely human qualities of artistry and empathy with the science of technology.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

2008 PopTech Fellow Abby Falik is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), which aims to institutionalize a global service “gap year” for young Americans between high school and college – fundamentally transforming how they understand and act on their responsibilities as global citizens.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

2009 PopTech Fellow Jason Aramburu launched re:char in 2005 to develop low-cost technologies that fight climate change while improving the quality of degraded soils. re:char’s systems convert agricultural waste into renewable fuel and into biochar, sequestering atmospheric carbon and improving s...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

2008 PopTech Fellow Heather Fleming is the founder of Catapult Design, which helps foundations and non-profits apply design thinking to global development. Hear her discuss breakthrough design projects, including a low-cost wind turbine that can charge a cell phone or power LED lighting.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Twenty minutes may not really be enough time to fully understand the implications of the so-called Fab Lab, invented by the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. But it’s a mind-blowing place to start!

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

What happens when material things become free? Long Tail author and Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson examines new models of wealth distribution and claims we’re moving from economies of scarcity to an age of abundance.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Shortly after posting self-styled videos on You Tube, singer songwriter Zee Avi woke up to 3,000 emails one morning. One offered her a recording contract with Brushfire Records. Since then, Avi left her home in Kuala Lumpur for Los Angeles. Avi performs melodic, melancholy songs tinged with irre...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Five-time Grammy award-winner John Legend will move you and motivate you. He weaves stories from his Show Me Campaign—a movement he launched to help eradicate extreme global poverty—in between each soulful song.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Don’t miss the “it” moment from Pop!Tech 2005, as the world’s first non-fictional bionic man maneuvers his prosthetic arm using only his mind. Jesse Sullivan and his doctor, Todd Kuiken, move every heart in the room with indomitable spirit and astonishing bionics.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Hear how executive director of SELF, Robert Freling, is lighting up the developing world and empowering self-sufficiency by delivering solar power to more than 2 billion people on the planet living without electricity.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

2008 PopTech Fellow Kushal Chakrabarti’s Vittana Foundation brings student loans to the developing world through the power of person-to-person micro-lending – eliminating barriers to education and providing a path to meaningful, productive employment.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Alec Ross, says it’s time to reboot US diplomatic efforts abroad. Ross calls for 21st century statecraft based on the innovative use of new media. Previously, Ross co-founded One Economy, a nonprofit devoted to closing the digit...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

What can we glean about underlying thought structures from the way we ask someone to “pass the guacamole”? Preeminent psychologist and best-selling author Steven Pinker examines how the words we use, from swears to simple requests at the dinner table, reflect how we think.

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:33 PM

Renowned primatologist, psychologist and ethologist Frans de Waal wants to convince us we’re all basically apes, saying we’d be much happier if we paid attention to some of the basic principals of cooperative social behavior that even primates are sensitive to. Watching monkeys engage in peace-m...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:32 PM

2009 PopTech Fellow Josh Nesbit co-founded FrontlineSMS:Medic to bring the innovative use of mobile phones for healthcare to the developing world. A central clinic laptop runs FrontlineSMS software, enabling community health workers to use text messages to coordinate patient care, offer mobile d...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:32 PM

2009 PopTech Fellow Hayat Sindi co-founded Diagnostics For All to offer point-of-care diagnostic tools micro-fabricated in paper. These technologies allow healthcare workers to monitor the treatment of the 60% of people living beyond the reach of medical infrastructures. Sindi is also an advocate...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:32 PM

Malcolm Gladwell takes the lessons of psychology and sociology and applies them to business in ways we’ve never thought of before. Here, he deep-dives into the world of office chair invention and soft drink taste tests to answer the question, “Can we believe what people tell us?”

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:32 PM

MIT Professor Dan Nocera believes he can solve the world’s energy problems with an Olympic-sized pool of water. Nocera and his research team have identified a simple technique for powering the Earth inexpensively—-by using the sun to split water and store energy—-and thus making the large-scale d...

From: PopTech on Tue, Jan 19 2010 6:32 PM

First inspired by the mysterious and mathematical qualities of a caterpillar’s crawl, artist Reuben Margolin creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that use pulleys and motors to create the complex movements and structures we see in nature. Margolin takes to the PopTech stage to share some of hi...