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- Challengers - a Freethink Original Series presented by Fast Company. Across the globe, innovative entrepreneurs are racing to develop new businesses that could dramatically improve people's lives. But startups are hard work, and success is far from guaranteed. Join us as we profile the next generation of challenger companies and get an intimate view of where they are on their journey to transform an entire industry-to change the world.
- Honor Flight chronicles a community coming together to honor World War II veterans. The film follows a team of Midwest volunteers as they race against the clock to send every local WWII veterans to see the memorials built in their honor.
- Yale researcher Ben Chan spends a lot of time doing what most people would avoid at all costs. He travels the world collecting sewage samples. And he's found that there are things hiding in our sewers. And not just clown or mutant turtles: potentially life-saving cures for antibiotic-resistant infections.
- It feels like we've never been more divided. Yet amidst our most intense religious, political, and cultural conflicts, there are people around the country who are working tirelessly to forge connections. It's not easy and the odds of success are far from certain, but for some, accepting things as they are just isn't an option. Freethink presents a new original series, "Crossing the Divide."
- In July of 2011, the U.S. suspended its decades-long Space Shuttle program, officially ending an era of space exploration that began over half a century ago. Some have mourned its passing as a sign of the times - as evidence that we could no longer dare to dream. But unbeknownst to many, a new era of private space exploration has already begun... and it's firing on all cylinders. The New Space Race is the story of a 21st-century revolution.
- One of the most significant transformations in humankind is underway but largely going untold. Fueled by advances in technology and innovation, global poverty has been slashed in half over the last decade with predictions that it will be eradicated over the next. From makeshift cities to smart phones to water purification to the blockchain, join us as we travel the world to see firsthand how entrepreneurship is lifting people up in the developing world. This is the incredible true story of the rising billion.
- When doctors told Karen there was no cure for her daughter's brain disease, she took matters into her own hands. With no scientific background, she created a gene therapy business that can fix the faulty genes in patients like her daughter. Now she's racing against the clock to extend her daughter's life and improve the lives of others.
- OpenBCI has developed an accessible 3D-printed headset for our brains to interact with software that opens our mind to the possibilities in that cerebral frontier. Want to measure the effect of meditation on your brain? It's possible. Want to control a prosthetic limb with your mind? We're at a point in time where the potential for harnessing the brain's cognitive abilities is only limited by our imagination.
- After losing part of his arm to cancer, doctors outfit Johnny, a self-described "hillbilly" from West Virginia, with one of the world's most advanced robotic arms. Johnny is able to control his new arm with his mind, giving him a level of motor control impossible until now.
- After a construction site accident, Robert Woo was paralyzed from the chest down. Woo spent the next four years in a wheelchair. But even as he learned how to live his new life, he couldn't stop asking one very simple question: How could humans build skyscrapers, but not something better than a wheelchair? Then Woo heard about bionic exoskeletons. And it changed his life.
- Vanna started to notice a change in her vision. Six months later, she was legally blind. But Vanna never lost hope, and enrolled in an experimental clinical trial. Her doctors injected stem cells from her hip into her optic nerve. Afterwards, she started to regain her vision. Amazingly, Vanna can now see. This is the story of reversing blindness.
- A roadside bomb in Iraq left Jerral paralyzed and without his left arm. But rather than letting his injuries define him, Jerral is fighting back. He's working with a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins to test the most advanced prosthetic arm in the world that could help Jerral and many other wounded vets like him take back their independence.
- At its peak, NASA's shuttle flew to space a few times a year. XCOR wants to be something more like Southwest Airlines for space. They're working on a spacecraft prototype with a very ambitious goal: four daily flights to space, five days a week. If XCOR is successful, they could take more people to space in six months than NASA did in 30 years.
- NASA intern turned entrepreneur, Jason Dunn, saw what was holding humans back from colonizing outer space...and decided to do something about it. His company allows astronauts to break their reliance on costly resupply missions from Earth and-for the first time ever-build new supplies for themselves in space.
- Imagine a delivery service that promised to drop your package within five miles of your house, but couldn't tell you exactly where until after the delivery had happened. That's how landing on the moon has historically worked, and it's a problem Astrobotics knows how to fix. The company's unique GPS system allows it to land spacecraft within meters-rather than kilometers-of the intended target. That might not matter much now, but it will when moon colonizers need fresh supplies from their home planet. Production company Freethink documents the work of Astrobotics in this episode from the series The New Space Race.
- Spire's CubeSat satellites-each about the size of a shoe box-can collect and transmit weather data 10,000 times a day, which is more than six times as often as the massive, billion-dollar satellites we've used for generations. Spire's satellites could be key to finally reigning in the stubbornly unpredictable world of weather forecasting, from giving us a better idea of when to pack an umbrella to warning the world's most vulnerable populations of an impending natural disaster headed their way.
- Twenty years from now, humans will live and work in space in record numbers-so says Rick Tumlinson, a two-decade veteran of the private space industry. As companies work feverishly to develop the tech needed for this galactic future, Tumlinson is bringing together the people who will use it. His New Worlds annual gathering is a place for space lovers of all ages to brainstorm, fantasize and-more importantly-prepare for life off Earth.
- Ryan Petersen, founder of Flexport, believes that nothing helps people improve their lives more than the ability to trade with one another. And, yet, even in the era of free trade, international shipping for businesses is still way too cumbersome. If Flexport succeeds, the chair you're sitting on, the phone you're holding, and the clothes you're wearing will all cost less.
- Impossible. Crazy. Dangerous. Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious, knows that people are scared and skeptical of human-level artificial intelligence. But he's building it anyway because he believes smart machines could one day cure cancer, create new forms of energy, and solve virtually every problem that humans simply can't.
- Transatomic is designing a nuclear reactor that can produce a lot more electricity than a conventional reactor, while creating a lot less nuclear waste. But they'll need to take on a deeply entrenched industry and convince a cautious public that they can safely harness the most powerful energy in the world.
- 2016–TV EpisodeEveryone wants America's education system to do better. Ex-Googler Max Ventilla has a radical idea for how to make schools work more like a social network. Ventilla's AltSchool is building a highly-personalized education experience that gets better and cheaper as more students use it. A decade from now, AltSchool may have built a new school system that ALL will be able to join.
- Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends...before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they'll alter the human experience forever.
- Ladar Levison's email service counted Edward Snowden among its users. But, when the FBI demanded Levison hand over Snowden's communications, Levison destroyed the company's servers. Now, he's back with a more secure version of the service that could make mass surveillance obsolete.
- At an undisclosed location in Sarajevo, a group of hackers are working with journalists to expose organized crime and corruption. But those engaged in illicit activity respond with cyber attacks and other intimidation tactics. Can the group fight off the attacks and help journalists bring the truth to light?
- Founder of BitInstant, Shrem was one of the first Bitcoin entrepreneurs and it paid off big time until he allowed a customer to resell bitcoin on Silk Road, the infamous internet black market. From his perch as a multi-millionaire, Shrem went to having almost nothing and spending a year in jail. Now, he's out and sure of two things: he's learned his lesson, and Bitcoin is the future of finance. Can Shrem convince the world that both are true?