Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine Synopsis Every day, 15,000 people get infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. All of them will eventually die. AIDS is the single greatest threat to life on earth. Yet nearly thirty years after HIV was first discovered, there...
Give Me a Lever: Stories of the Tech Laureates Synopsis In a world where billions of people don’t have clean drinking water, decent housing, or affordable transportation, the problems can easily seem insurmountable. But a growing number of innovators have...
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital: Family Centered Care Synopsis Tony G. had a problem. The nurses who were supposed to be caring for his infant son were not moving fast enough. Or so he thought. But Karen Grove, the nurses’ supervisor, saw matters quite...
The Next Big Thing? Synopsis Technology is always promising something better—or bigger—faster or more efficient, or just more fun. But along with technology’s promise of a better world comes the certainty of change—and not always for the better. The Next Big Thing?...
Stopwatch Synopsis Our lives weren’t always dominated by the clock. But that was before Frederick Winslow Taylor brought his stopwatch onto the shop floor. Yet the man who thought everything should run like clockwork was also a quirky cross-dresser who spent the...
