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How Peter Diamandis Left Me Feeling Better About the World's Future

Thomas Kruczek | Posted 05.15.2012

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Thomas Kruczek

I still know that there are problems with the global economy, that America's unemployment is still high, and that the housing market is still unsettled. Despite these facts, I feel better, because I've just spent the last 24 hours with Dr. Peter Diamandis.

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Secretive Spaceflight Firm Lifts Veil On New Spacecraft Plans

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Private Spaceflight, Nasa, Video, Human Spaceflight, Spacex, Planetary Resources, Jeff Bezos, X Prize, Blue Origin, Science News

By: Leonard David Published: 05/07/2012 06:25 AM EDT on SPACE.com The curtain of secrecy is being raised by Blue Origin, a private entrepreneuri...

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Weightless Training Over Moscow

James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Virgin Galactic Airways, Adventure Travel, Richard Branson, Weightlessness, Soyuz, X Prize, Moscow, Space Adventures, Burt Rutan, Zero Gravity Corp., Parabolic, Incredible Adventures, Suborbital Space Flight, Travel News
James M. Clash

In Russia, you can experience simulated bursts of weightlessness (parabolic flight) in an old Ilyushin 76 cargo plane -- the same aircraft in which Russian cosmonauts train.

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Who Would Have Thought

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cars, Edison2, X Prize, Fuel-Efficient Cars, Green News
Carl Pope

Washington, D.C. -- That the winner of the Automotive X Prize, Team Edison 2,  would have built their 102 mpg vehicle in Lynchburg, Virginia? &n...

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Automotive X Prize Winners REVEALED -- See Which Cars Took Home Multi-Million Dollar Prizes

Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT (AP) -- An ultralight, gas-powered car that can get 102 miles per gallon is among the winners of the $10 million Automotive X Prize, a contest...

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PHOTOS: Which Car Deserves To Win A $5 Million Prize?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aptera, Electric Cars, Progressive Automotive X Prize, Slidepollajax, X Prize, HuffPost Innovators Series, Business News

In the latest edition of the HuffPost Innovators series (check out previous editions here, here and here), we've compiled some of the most promising e...

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PHOTOS: 9 Cars That Could Change The World

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: X Prize, Xprize, Xprize Finalists, Slidepollajax, Progressive Automotive Xprize, Progressive Automotive X Prize, Progressive Insurance Automotive Xprize, The Future, Technology News

They're aerodynamic, they're snappy, and, best of all, they're efficient. The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize has announced the finalists in...

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X Prize Challenges Innovators To Take On Oil Spill Cleanup

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP is closer than ever to a fix that will stop leakage from its disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But capping the gushing oil marks the b...

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Introducing The Oil Cleanup X Challenge

Wendy Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge, Xprize, X Prize, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Technology News
Wendy Schmidt

Today's announcement of the newest X PRIZE Foundation competition comes at a time when Americans are dismayed and frustrated by the messy, uncoordinated clean up operations in the Gulf.

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Fix The Oil Spill, Win Millions Of Dollars

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: X Prize Foundation, X Prize, Oil Spill Fix, Oil Spill X Prize, Fix the Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Impact News

WASHINGTON — You might be able to get rich quick if you can fix the BP oil spill. The X Prize Foundation wants to make fixing the BP oil spill ...

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The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Competition is Heating Up

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, Peter Diamandis, X Prize, X Prize Foundation, Michigan, Consumers Union, Fuel Efficiency, Green News
Peter Diamandis

Step aside oversized SUVs, and welcome in the more compact, earth-friendly wheels. Out with the luxurious and in with the parsimonious. What was once considered nerdy is now haute couture.

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Conference On World Affairs 2010: Start-Up America Innovating To Compete

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | ANDREA MEYER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team Conference on World Affairs: Start-up America "I'm not an entrepreneur -- I'm an instigator of entrepre...

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Dispatch From Startup Land: Zuckerberg and Contest Economics

Nicholas Baily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microsoft, Economics, Admob, Hotmail, X Prize, Technology, Facebook Privacy, Mark Zuckerberg, Youtube, Bill Gates, Netflix, Game Theory, Facebook, Jason Calacanis, Technology News
Nicholas Baily

If you're the big guy, when small companies get some traction, you partner with them, or buy them. Why pay millions to buy when you can build? Nobody wins unless the whole village wins.

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Horse Races with Rocket Engines

William Pomerantz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: X Prize, Nasa, Space, Lunar Landing, Scaled Composites, TrueZer0, Unreasonable Rocket, Friends of Amateur Rocketry, John Carmack, Spaceshiptwo, Rocket Competitions, Masten Space Systems, Northrop Grumman, David Masten, Xombie, Armadillo Aerospace, Technology News
William Pomerantz

We're clearly coming into an era where commercial competition will have a major impact on the aerospace community -- and on the financial community as well.

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Commercial Spaceflight for the Rest of Us -- Congratulations to Virgin Galactic

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xprize, Virgin Galactic, Spaceshiptwo, Spaceshipone, Paul Allen, Richard Branson, X Prize Foundation, X Prize, Peter Diamandis, Burt Rutan, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites have rolled out SpaceShipTwo, a new commercial spaceship that will be flown by two pilots with seats for six paying passengers.

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My In-Depth Audio Interview with Paul Jansen of McKinsey & Company

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McKinsey & Company, Peter Diamandis, Incentive Prizes, Xprize, X Prize, Business News
Peter Diamandis

I recently had an in-depth interview with Paul Jansen of McKinsey & Company on the origins of X PRIZE and discussed my passion and understanding of how incentive prizes work.

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Guest Blogger, Keith Ferrazzi: Rev up Your Company's Innovation Engine with Candor

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Candor, X Prize, X Prize Foundation, Innovation, Incentive2innovate, I2i, Keith Ferrazzi, Business News
Peter Diamandis

Whether or not you're officially a leader in your workplace, you can create a tremendous impact on its culture just by showing others the value of inviting in candor. Here are some specific tips.

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Health Noir: $10 Million Ransom Demand for Data - and Stranger Crimes Are Coming

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: X Prize, Organized Crime and Health Care, Health IT, Organized Crime, Health Data Crimes, Virginia Data Theft, Hhs, Data Crime, Philip Marlowe, Health Data Breaches, Health Reform, Health Privacy, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Organized crime -- or even disorganized crime -- has no place in the world of healthcare.

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Guest Blogger, Dwayne Spradlin: The Effects of Implementing an Open Innovation Culture

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xprize, Innovation, Incentive2innovate, Dwayne Spradlin, X Prize, I2i, Innocentive, Business News
Peter Diamandis

Diversity of thought and access to vast networks of qualified minds will become the valuable currency, replacing the closed monolithic approaches that define many of today's organizations.

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Guest Blogger, William Pomerantz: Our Robotic Overlords

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xprize, FIRST Robotics National Championship, William Pomerantz, Robots, Google Lunar X Prize, X Prize, Politics News
Peter Diamandis

With kids like these, the future will always look bright, no matter how dark the present seems. The world needs a generation of champions for change, and that's exactly what today's youth are.

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Guest Blogger, Charlie Brown: Opening a New Door

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Brown, X Prize, Ashoka, Incentive2innovate, Collaboration, I2i, Innovation, Changemakers, Media News
Peter Diamandis

The market place makes it hard for us to discover solutions. Ashoka has been finding these solutions in the form of social entrepreneurs for nearly 30 years in every corner of the globe.

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Guest Blogger, Marthin de Beer: Innovation From Around the World

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cisco, Peter Diamandis, X Prize, Innovation, Marthin De Beer, Incentive2innovate, Collaboration, I2i, Business News
Peter Diamandis

I've often said that the "wisdom of crowds" will allow us to look beyond our own walls and borders, and enable us to harness new ideas that we may not have known existed in our own backyard.

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Guest Blogger, Don Tapscott: Encouraging Fresh Thinking from Today's Youth

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Diamandis

Schools have not embraced digital technologies as quickly as other institutions, and students are becoming disengaged as a result.

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Meet Shmeat: Test-Tube Meat

Grist | Lou Bendrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veganism, Test-Tube Meat, Eating Matters, Green News, X Prize, Green Living, Peta, Gmos, Vegetarianism, Meat, Schmeat, In Vitro Meat, Shmeat, Meat Shmeat, Green News

Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, human...

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Voting for the $25,000 "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" Contest has Begun!

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Competition, Environment, X Prize Foundation, Contest, Energy, X Prize, Green, Green Living, Green News
Peter Diamandis

For those of you who don't know, an X PRIZE is a $10 million competition designed to solve one of the grand challenges of our time.

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