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How green sand could capture billions of tons of carbon dioxide
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW // BY JAMES TEMPLE
JUNE 22, 2022
Scientists are taking a harder look at using carbon-capturing rocks to counteract climate change, but lots of uncertainties remain. Later this year, Project Vesta plans to spread a green volcanic mineral known as olivine, ground down to the size of sand particles, across one of the beaches. The waves will further break down the highly reactive material, accelerating a series of chemical reactions that pull the greenhouse gas out of the air and lock it up in the shells and skeletons of mollusks and corals…
B-Schooled Podcast Episode #109: Disruptive Technologies and the MBA
STACY BLACKMAN CONSULTING
MAY 25, 2022
Futurism is a broad term referring to the advancement of disruptive technologies across industries. These exponential technologies are rapidly emerging in the fields of genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, synthetic organisms, nanotechnology, 3D printing, virtual reality, big data, cybernetics and many other areas…
NEXUS Launches Impact Accelerator
YAHOO NEWS
JANUARY 19, 2022
NEXUS, a unique community representing over $700B in family assets with a deep dedication to social impact, today announced the launch of its second annual NEXUS Impact Accelerator. To help manage this exciting program, NEXUS is partnering with H/L Ventures ("H/L"), one of the original venture studios and New York's most active firm focused on impact and diversity. Working together, the NEXUS Impact Accelerator team is primed to bring value to impact-driven start-ups by combining powerful networks, varied experience, diversity in all respects, and potential access to capital…
New model shows winners, losers among marine microbes in warming oceans
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MARCH 3, 2020
A USC-led research team developed a new tool to show how rising ocean temperatures help and hurt various marine microbes. Climate change is heating the oceans, which affects billions of marine microbes in ways scientists don't fully understand. In response, USC researchers have developed a model to forecast how these important organisms will adapt to warming seas…
The (Com)Post: Climatologist Nathan Walworth speaks to AU students about how to mitigate climate change
THE EAGLE // BY CLAIRE MULROY
MARCH 20, 2019
Dr. Nathan Walworth, an entrepreneurial climate scientist and futurist, discussed the future of climate change with AU students in a panel discussion on March 4. There’s a strong need to combat climate change at a societal level, Walworth said, adding that regeneration is at the heart of a possible solution to climate change…
Leveraging the digital divide to rewrite the human story
GLOBAL PEOPLE’S SUMMIT // BY DR. NATHAN WALWORTH
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
The rapid advancement and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) play a decisive role in virtually all aspects of society affecting interactions among individuals, communities, organizations, and countries. Differential societal conditions significantly affect access to and utilization of ICT, yielding what has been classically termed ‘the digital divide’…
Global People's Summit Fellow
United Nations Office For Partnership and the Office of the President of the General Assembly
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Dr. Nathan Walworth was part of the 2018 Global People's Fellows cohort representing 33 countries. Fellows amplify voices, celebrate innovation and drive conversations around international development and reimagining humanity…
The Artificial Intelligence Committee
FORBES // by ZARA STONE
JUNE 11, 2018
Dr. Nathan Walworth and Nick Loui discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence and how engineers hold responsibility for coding a bias-free world...
DNA of bacteria crucial to ecosystem defies explanation
PHYS.ORG // by University of Southern California
APRIL 22, 2015
Scientists have found something they can't quite explain in one of the most barren environments on Earth: a bacterium whose DNA sequence contains elements usually only found in a much higher organism. Trichodesmium is a type of bacteria known as an oligotroph, meaning that it can survive in incredibly nutrient-poor regions of the ocean…