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It's a resonant phenomenon for which he actually received a MacArthur Fellowship Award, which is nicknamed the Genius Award, last September, for his discovery.

Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab from smart rope to a house sized kite for towing large loads.

And I tell you, being on the TED stage and winning a MacArthur in the same exact year gave everyone the impression that I had arrived.

In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.

I am grateful to the United States and the Philippines working closely with the IOM, the UNHCR, and civil society groups for offering to help lead an initiative to address the situation of migrants caught in acute crises. Georgetown University and the MacArthur Foundation also are playing indispensable roles.

MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems those we know how to solve, but don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, how to prevent diabetes related blindness and how to implement solar cell technology ... yet somehow, we don't or can't. Why?