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| Want to Meet Top VCs? Score Face-Time With Donation | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:57 PM | Zoe Fox |
| On the heels of the $610,000 coffee date with Apple CEO Tim Cook, online charity auction platform CharityBuzz is offering lunches with some of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists. If you'd love to share your best ideas with or pick the brains of VCs — and have the cash to give to charity — this might be the perfect opportunity for you.
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| The Audacious Plan to End Hunger With 3D-Printed Food | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:35 PM | Quartz |
| Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer.
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| Why Social Media Is the Front Line of Disaster Response | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:15 AM | Zoe Fox |
| Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6 billion. Helping respond to these cataclysmic events, social media is now a go-to tool for those effected by disasters. One in five Americans has used an emergency app.
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| How to Help Victims of the Oklahoma Tornados | | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:12 AM | Zoe Fox |
| One of the most devastating tornados in U.S. history tore through Oklahoma City Monday, wreaking considerable damage to the suburb of Moore. The Oklahoma City medical examiner's spokesperson originally reported at least 51 deaths, including 20 children, though those counts are no longer thought accurate. The storm reduced homes to piles of rubble and destroyed entire neighborhoods.
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