Mitchell McKenna - tagged with mosquito http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com TEDTalk: Could This Laser Zap Malaria? http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7422/nathan-myhrvold-could-this-laser-zap-malaria

Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe.

]]> Fri, 14 May 2010 02:45:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/7422/nathan-myhrvold-could-this-laser-zap-malaria/nathan-myhrvold-could-this-laser-zap-malaria Bill Gates: How I'm Trying to Change the World Now http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4997/bill-gates-how-im-trying-to-change-the-world-now-includes-the-infamous-mosquito-release

Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes (includes the infamous mosquito release!), he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.

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