Thirty... children, between the ages of 12 to 16, have been paired up with college-aged mentors and brought to South Africa by Malaak Compton-Rock, the wife of comedian Chris Rock. She brought them to volunteer -- to serve the impoverished and the AIDS orphans in this country with the highest HIV-infected population in the world. Watch the kids' video diaries from South Africa
How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that
might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and
mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical
research.
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled -- compared to almost 90% of metals --
because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds.
Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can,
and does, recycle any kind of plastic.
