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Extraordinary People

By Adam Rifkin

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Angela Duckworth says to think of three good things in your life each morning before you get out of bed.

Kindness Boomerang by Orly Wahba of Life Vest Inside

Can we engineer the end of ageing with CRISPR? by Harvard biologist Daisy Robinton

Humanity needs needs dreamers, for whom the unselfish following of a purpose is so imperative. ~Marie Sklowdowska Curie on Our Happy Place

Five Keys to Happiness That LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Lives By, from Ray Chambers, as told to Oprah, SuperSoul Sunday

Billy Barr, The Snow Guardian

Grandma Got STEM Blog: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World, by Rachel Swaby

Humanity and AI will be inseparable, by Manuela Veloso, Head of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule.

Microsoft will solve cancer within 10 years by reprogramming diseased cells.

A Linguist Who Cracks the Code in Names to Predict Ethnicity

Investor Brett Bullington In Accident - Business Insider

Music Critic Tim Page Rediscovers Life After A Terrifying Brain Injury

Renowned Romanian pianist Ursuleasa dead at 33

The One Thing Successful People Never Do: They Never Give Up

Melba Roy, NASA mathmetician

'We need human interaction': Meet LA man Chuck McCarthy who walks people for a living and wants to build an Uber for Walking app.

Cornell University welcomes 12-year-old college freshman, the school's youngest student ever.

A 27-Year-Old Farmer Says You Can Pay Off Your Student Loans By Growing Food

The geeky goddess of V.C.

Hacker, Activist Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide

Google's Billion Dollar Longevity Venture Calico appointed Machine Learning expert Daphne Koller to employ AI to the science of aging.

Marques Brownlee, The Kid Who Revolutionized YouTube’s Tech Reviews with MKBHD

After Rio Gold, 2016 US Women Gymnastics team names itself the Final Five.

Syrian refugee athlete Yusra Mardini who saved 20 lives by pushing boat for 3 hours won her swimming heat at Rio Olympics.

Simone Biles Gymnastics Interactive

My 60,000 Facebook subscribers are driving me crazy.

Medium Hires Former ICM Literary Agent, Kate Lee, As Its Director Of Content

Miss America Pageant's First Autistic Contestant

Teen Leaders Of U.N. Girl Up Talk About Their Heroes, Their Goals For The World's Girls

This is Princess Madeleine of Sweden.

How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology about Lichens

Polio Virus Helps the Immune System Target Cancer Cells - Scott Pelley reports on Duke clinical trial

My Time with Richard Feynman, by Stephen Wolfram, Backchannel

Why is @brainpicker so into the color yellow?

Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These First Round Interview Questions

Lessons from Spanx founder Sara Blakely.

10 Things I Want To Tell Teenage Girls, by @kateeconner

ESPN NBA Countdown Host Sage Steele Is Still Enjoying The Climb

Patti McGee (First woman professional skateboarder)

Artificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem

How Google is Remaking Itself as a "Machine Learning First" Company, by Steven Levy

Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson On Why Talk Of “Lowering The Bar” Is Inherently Racist

Women Scientists with Feminine Appearance are Deemed Less Likely to be Scientists

Gloria Brar on Running a Lab, by Cell Press

Neri Oxman TED Talk: Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Bonnie Bassler TED Talk: How Bacteria "Talk"

Research and Academics: CMU's Robot Hall of Fame | Robotics Trends

Inventor Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh

Angela Ahrendts: the woman aiming to make Apple a luxury brand

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