Solvable

Mike Dickey is co-founder and chairman of the JackTrip Foundation and the creator of Virtual Studio.

The awkward and disjointed experience of making music over the internet is a solvable problem. Virtual Studio is a device that works with the open source software application JackTrip to enable musicians of all ages to collaborate across locations online.

Virtual Studio

JackTrip Open Source Software Application

JamKazam

11 Tools for Collaborating on Music Remotely

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Dr. Lutfi Lokman co-founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries to provide culturally competent and financially sustainable healthcare. His clinic follows a model pioneered by Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank) which leans on cross-subsidization to address the healthcare needs of economically diverse communities.

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Hospitals Beyond Boundaries

NGOs in Cambodia: It’s Complicated The Diplomat, Dec. 2013

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Flavia Kleiner is the co-founder of Operation Libero. The organization works to combat populism in Switzerland. Operation Libero has launched and won a variety of proactive campaigns to promote a more diverse and inclusive Switzerland. (This conversation was originally published in 2019)

Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:

Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists, The Guardian April 2019

Swiss voters appear to reject limiting jobs for EU citizens, Associated Press, Sept 2020

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Kobe Guilford, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She believes that disinformation is solvable. 

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“The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation,” Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine, Oct 15, 2020

The Cyber Policy Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Election Integrity Partnership

Avaaz

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society 

The Landscape For Campaign Finance, 10 Years After Citizens United, Ari Shapiro with Nate Persily for NPR, Jan 21, 2020

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Ahmed Badr is an Iraqi-American writer, social entrepreneur, former refugee and the founder of Narratio. Narratio is a creative platform and set of initiatives that carve out spaces for displaced young people to transcend the tragedies that may have initially caused their displacement.

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Narratio.org

While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World 

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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Saving coral reefs will take a lot of teamwork and collaboration across scientists, industries and individuals. One important tool is micro-fragmentation and re-skinning. Sarah Hamlyn is a scientist at the Mote Marine Labs’ Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reefs Research and Restoration. She helps maintain 21 species of stony and branching coral and works to regrow damaged coral reefs off the Florida coast 40 to 50 times faster than they can regrow in the wild.

Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:

FishWatch.gov

Slow Release Fertilizers 

Mote’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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Eric Appel is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His lab has designed an improved delivery system for fire retardant to keep fires from starting across hotspots and known ignition areas.

Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:

Wildfire prevention through prophylactic treatment of high-risk landscapes using viscoelastic retardant fluids, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

Stanford researchers have developed a gel-like fluid to prevent wildfires, Stanford News

Phos-Chek fire retardant

Developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans, US Forest Service

Mitigate Wildfire Risk, US Forest Service

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. 

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

Additional articles on rapid tests

Trump to Announce $750 million deal with Abbott, CNBC August 27, 2020

@michaelmina_lab

Sample letter about rapid tests to send to your representatives

www.RapidTests.org

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, contributing writer at The Atlantic and hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley. He believes that “cancel culture” is solvable.

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

After Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Visit, UC Berkeley Braces For Free Speech Rallies

The Fine Line Between A Bad Date And Sexual Assault: 2 Views On Aziz Ansari

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom

Critical Race Theory

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Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post and formerly the public editor with the New York Times. Her new book is called Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy. She believes that the decline of local news is solvable.

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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan

Texas Tribune

MinnPost

Voice of San Diego

Buffalo News

Chicago Tribune 

Chicago Sun Times

Saint Francis de Sales

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