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Ted Ames
sustainable fisheries expert and lobsterman
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Thomas Barnett
geopolitical and military strategist and best-selling author
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Sam Barondes
neuropsychiatrist exploring the essence of mood and personality
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Robert Boroffice
head of Nigeria's space agency, NASRDA
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Adrian Bowyer
creator of low-cost fabrication technologies
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Louann Brizendine
expert on gender differences in the brain
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Mustafa Ceric
Grand Mufti of Bosnia and leading Islamic thinker
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Caleb Chung
inventor of living toys
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Krista Dong
leading front-line work on AIDS in South Africa
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Lee Alan Dugatkin
expert on the biological underpinnings of altruism
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Nathan Eagle
expert in the use of mobiles as a tool for social development
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John Esposito
preeminent Islamic studies scholar
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Jeff Fisher
psychologist and creator of the LifeWindows platform
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Jessica Flannery
internet microfinance pioneer
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Cary Fowler
the world's seed banker and director of the Global Seed Diversity Trust
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Robert Freling
electrifying the world
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Vanessa German
poet
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Dan Gilbert
expert on human happiness, and why we rarely hold on to it
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Jessica Hagy
superbly comic blogger
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Victoria Hale
founder of the world's first non-profit drug company
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Jonathan Harris
mind-blowing interactive design star
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Carl Honoré
noted chronicler of the Slow movement
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The Hungry March Band
energy and emotion you'll not soon forget
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Nina Jablonski
anthropologist studying the meaning of human skin
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Van Jones
inner-city eco-activist
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Chris Jordan
extraordinary photographer of the human ecological impact
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Sarah Joseph
founder of Emel magazine, Britain's leading Muslim lifestyle publication
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Jay Keasling
synthetic biologist developing new health and energy technologies
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Zoë Keating
renowned techno-cellist
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Sheila Kennedy
lighting the developing world
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Daoud Kuttab
pioneering Palestinian journalist and new media expert
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John Legend
Grammy-award-winning R&B artist
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Chris Luebkeman
noted futurist
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Joe McCarthy
global mobility researcher
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Marcia McNutt
deep sea explorer
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Stefano Merlin
combating climate change
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Christian Nold
creator of "emotional mapping" technologies
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Claire Nouvian
author, filmmaker, activist and deep-sea conservationist
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Sarah Otterstrom
curbing carbon by returning forests to Nicaragua
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Kelly Joe Phelps
mesmerizing blues guitarist
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Daniel Pink
leading thinker on the creative economy
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Steven Pinker
preeminent cognitive scientist and New York Times-best-selling author
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Paul Polak
founding father of market-based solutions to poverty and development
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Davy Rothbart
founder of FOUND magazine
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Enric Sala
marine ecologist studying the human impact on the oceans
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Zainab Salbi
Iraqi civil rights activist
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Bill Shannon
indescribably talented street dancer
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John Shearer
distributing electricity in new ways
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Paul Shuper
psychologist and HIV behavioral researcher
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Elizabeth Streb
award-winning choreographer
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Charles Swift
lawyer charged with defending terrorists at Guantanamo
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Zinhle Thabethe
front-line AIDS worker from KwaZulu Natal province, South Africa
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Katrin Verclas
mobile activism researcher
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Bora Yoon
one-woman orchestra
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