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Solvable Pushkin Industries
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Solvable showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, conducted by journalists like Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solvable.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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Surgical Site Infections in Developing Countries Can be Solved
Dasia Taylor is a senior at Iowa City West High School. She’s working to develop and produce medical sutures, dyed with beets, that can detect infections and alert patients to signs of risk.
According to the WHO patients with surgical site infections are twice as likely to spend time in an intensive care unit, five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge. And twice as likely to die.
Out of nearly 2000 students Taylor was recently named one of 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Scholar program and awarded $25,000 for her work.
Want to learn more about health equity, surigical site infections and Taylor's work? Check out these links.
The difference between a stich and a suture, Healthline.com
Frequently Asked Questions about Surgical Site Infections, CDC.gov
Surgical site infections are the most common and costly of hospital infections, Science Daily
WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009
17-Year-Old Dasia Taylor Receives Recognition For Developing Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection” AfroTech.com
West High senior Dasia Taylor recognized as Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist, The Daily Iowan
Health equity: challenges in low income countries
Closing the Health Equity Gap, WHO
We Must Enhance—but also Decolonize—America’s Global Health Diplomacy, Scientific American
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Psychological Manipulation is a Solvable Problem
Cults and other manipulative groups are an issue of public health and Diane Benscoter has strategies that may help.
Diane Benscoter is the founder of Antidote and the author of Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie.
Here are some links to additional information about cults and psychological manipulation and how to find support:
Support for Individuals, from Antidote
Support for Families, from Antidote
Freedom of Mind Institute
Cult Deprogramming vs. Strategic Interactive Approach from Steven Hassan
Course: Understand Cults: The Basics, by Steven Hassan
Open Minds Foundation: Resources
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Making Medical Deliveries by Drone is Solvable
Keller Rinaudo is the CEO and Founder of Zipline International. Their “sky ambulance” service is delivering medical supplies to hard to reach places via drone delivery.
Here are some links to information and resources that Rinaudo mentioned in this episode.
Zipline International
Factfulness by Hans and Ola Rosling
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Children: Improving Survival and Wellbeing, UN World Health Organization, Sept 8, 2020
Mobile Money Adoption in Kenya, TechCrunch, March 25, 2020
Zipline’s drones are delivering medical supplies and PPE in North Carolina, The Verge, May 2020
Walmart drone deliveries, The Verge, Sept 2020
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Racialized Trauma is Solvable
Resmaa Menakem is an author and psychotherapist working in Minneapolis Minnesota. As a specialist focused on racial trauma, Menakem works to help people metabolize intergenerational pain and pay attention to the cues their bodies are communicating rather than burying them.
Here are links that Menakem recommends to learn more about trauma and systemic racism, and links to some tools that can help to address both.
Hotlines for Survivors of Violence and Trauma
My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
More about Somatic Abolitionism from Resmaa Menakem
Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Adrienne Maree Brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/
Rachel Cargle: https://www.rachelcargle.com/
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Extreme Poverty in New York City is Solvable
Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City and he thinks that extreme poverty is a solvable problem. Here are some links to learn more about universal basic income and guaranteed minimum income.
“2021 Will Be the Year of Guaranteed Income Experiments,” Bloomberg News, Jan 4, 2021
“Andrew Yang's 'People's Bank' to Help Distribute Basic Income to 55K New Yorkers,”
Newsweek, Feb 17, 2021
“Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea,” Forbes, Jan 16, 2019
“Free cash handouts: What is universal basic income or UBI,” CNBC, June 27, 2019
“Payment Guaranteed: How Would Universal Basic Income Affect Business?” Business News Daily, May 11, 2020
“Universal Basic Income: Purpose, Pros and Cons,”The Balance, Aug 19, 2020
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The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable
Catherine Coleman Flowers is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2020 for her work researching and documenting America’s waste water failures.
Learn more:
Have you faced local sanitation issues in the US? We want to hear from you, The Guardian, 2021
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret By Catherine Coleman Flowers
Catherine Coleman Flowers, Class of 2020, MacArthur Foundation
Biden Urged to Back Water Bill in Amid US Worst Crisis in Decades, The Guardian, 2021
The people suffering have to have a seat at the table, Southerly Dec. 2020
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 By Taylor Branch
Solvable's senior producer is Jocelyn Frank. Research and booking by Lisa Dunn.
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