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David Gallo was one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of submarines and robots to map the undersea world. The Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he has taken part in an exploration of RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck using the Russian MIR submarines, as well as a recent expedition to find the lost WWII submarine USS Grunion.

Dr. Gallo is currently interested in understanding the relationship between humanity and the sea. He was closely involved in the formulation and development of the Liquid Jungle Laboratory of Panama, a venture designed to better understand the interaction between people, tropical forests, and coastal marine habitats.

At Woods Hole, he works closely with scientists and engineers at the forefront of global exploration and discovery. He has participated in numerous expeditions to the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and to the Mediterranean Sea.

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Gretchen Rubin is the best-selling writer whose book, The Happiness Project, is the account of the year she spent test-driving studies and theories about how to be happier.

She is also the author of the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill; Forty Ways to Look at JFK; Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide; and Profane Waste. (She has three dreadful unpublished novels locked in a drawer.)

Her popular daily blog, The Happiness Project, appears on Slate and the Huffington Post and ranks in the prestigious Technorati “Top 2K.” There, she recounts her adventures and insights as she grapples with the challenges of how to be happier. She also blogs for RealSimple.com.

Evan Kohlmann is an international terrorism consultant with years of experience tracking and analyzing Al-Qaida and other global terrorist movements. Mr. Kohlmann’s latest book, Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network, relates the story of how radical terrorist groups based in Afghanistan used the Balkans as a jumping point to expand into North America and Western Europe by training a clandestine army of North African terror sleeper cells.

Mr. Kohlmann serves as an approved expert witness on behalf of federal prosecutors in various terrorism matters, including most recently in United States v. Masoud Khan et al. Mr. Kohlmann has been a frequent expert guest on nationally televised news programs and is currently an on-air terrorism analyst for CNN and NBC News.


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Vertigore is obsessed with building interactive experiences and platforms that smash the boundaries between game and player. Whether it’s through augmented reality, multi-axis motion control, social platforms, advanced haptic interfaces or… well, other areas they can’t talk about just yet, they’re passionate about fusing new technologies to develop games with good old-fashioned replay value.

Weeels offers people with mobile phones a fast, easy and affordable way to order taxis and share rides. As the world’s first social transit application, it is the first step in a mass transit movement aimed at giving individuals increased agency in their metropolitan transit experience - and at transforming the way we move around and between cities.

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Mulebone is mix of Hugh Pool's excellent blues/roots guitar and John Ragusa's incredible mix of conch shell, Jews harp, cornet, all manner of flutes, tin whistle and back-up vocals. I find John's tasteful additions give Hugh's traditional sounds a sense of evolution. Their CD is a mix of tunes written by Pool and covers from the likes of Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis and Merle Travis.



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