Elephant seals equipped with antennas on their heads to map the oceans; satellites being used to target mosquitoes; an SMS system preventing the sale of counterfeit medicines in Ghana; smartphones that can predict you’re going to get depressed; credit cards that know two years before you do that you’re headed toward divorce; pills that transmit information directly from your body to your physician.
These and other stories are being told through “The Human Face of Big Data,” the latest groundbreaking, globally crowdsourced initiative from Rick Smolan, the creator of the “Day in the Life” series. The project, made possible through primary sponsorship from EMC® (NYSE:EMC), is based on the premise that the real-time visualization of data collected by satellites, and by billions of sensors, RFID tags, and GPS-enabled cameras and smartphones around the world, is enabling humanity to sense, measure, understand and affect aspects of our existence in ways our ancestors could never have imagined in their wildest dreams.
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Maersk Container Industry has joined the United Nations’ SAVE FOOD Initiative to help make international food logistics more efficient.
“Food should not be wasted, but too often it is, and we believe our technologies can help improve the food logistics chain,” says Peter K. Nymand, CEO of Maersk Container Industry, MCI.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/61920-UN-maersk-container-industry-combat-food-waste
If a child cannot see clearly, he may have trouble learning, a problem that will impact his entire life. Jennie Garth, well-known actress and mother of three, knows firsthand that healthy vision can change everything for a child – at school and at home.
Ms. Garth, whose two older daughters struggled in school before receiving vision correction, has partnered with Alcon to launch the Eye Saw Good campaign, an initiative that highlights the important role that good eye health and clear vision play in allowing people to see the world around them and live life to the fullest. The campaign inspires people to help provide good eye health and vision correction for children in need across the US. The campaign is simple: see good, share good, and make good happen.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/62135-alcon-kids-vision-for-life-jennie-garth-eye-saw-good-vision-awareness
Reinforcing its long-standing commitment to furthering math and science education globally, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) is bringing its MathMovesU® initiative to the Gulf Region. Raytheon will premiere the regional expansion of MathMovesU — which is well established in the United States, Australia and Europe — with two key launches.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/63761-raytheon-mathmovesu-education-launches-in-gulf-region
As wildfires burn across the western United States, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Ad Council launch new public service ads (PSAs) targeting homeowners and community members in fire-prone areas. The new PSAs represent the continuation of the Fire Adapted Communities initiative which raises awareness about the threat of wildfire and helps individuals and communities mitigate wildfire damage.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/62255-us-forest-service-and-ad-council-launch-fire-adapted-communties-psa
Because one in eight people around the world face food insecurity each day, Kellogg Company and its foundation, the Kellogg’s Corporate Citizenship Fund, pledged today to provide one-half billion servings of breakfast to children and families who need it most, through its new Breakfasts for Better Days™ initiative. In total, the company will donate 1 billion servings of cereal and snacks in its support of global hunger relief by the end of 2016.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/60421-kellogg-corporate-citizenship-fund-breakfast-for-better-days-hunger-relief
Voices of Meningitis, a public health initiative of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) in collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur, announced today the launch of Get in the Game: Keeping Teens Healthy, a new program to help educate parents on the danger and prevention of meningococcal disease. Get in the Game will help raise awareness about the serious consequences of the disease and motivate parents to speak with their children's health care professional about vaccinating against meningococcal disease in advance of each sports season.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/players/English/61652-voices-of-meningitis-get-in-the-game/
Tree Fu Tom, the animated preschool series that’s taken Britain by storm, will make its U.S. debut on Sprout®, the 24-hour preschool channel, on April 22 at 11:00 a.m. EST. The show, which is a co-production between FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment and CBeebies, joins Sprout’s lineup of quality children’s entertainment that includes both acquired and original programming including the network’s newest hit, “The Chica Show.”
The premiere of Tree Fu Tom kicks-off a week-long celebration called “Dig Into Earth Day,” which promotes conservation and the importance of caring for the environment. Sprout marks Earth Week by being a part of NBCUniversal’s Green is Universal environmental initiative, and will be turning its on-air and online logos green for the entire week.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/61203-sprout-animated-preschool-series-tree-fu-tom-makes-u-s-debut-earth-day
Walmart today launched an online destination on Walmart.com that gives shoppers who want to buy unique and interesting products the opportunity to do so while supporting small women-owned businesses around the world. With each purchase, consumers lift and empower the women behind these products to create new jobs and improve both their own lives and the lives of their families and communities. At launch, Empowering Women Together will offer shoppers more than 200 items from 19 businesses in nine countries.To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/60460-walmart-launches-empowering-women-together-initiative-online
Unequal Technologies, the leading provider of customized, concealed sports protection, in a press conference with NFL MVP Kurt Warner, announced plans for a new initiative called Play It Safe that’s aimed at providing education to help make contact sports safer for amateur athletes. The announcement coincided with the ribbon cutting for Unequal’s new 65,000-square-foot headquarters facility in Glen Mills, Pa.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/63831-unequal-technologies-play-it-safe-initiative-kurt-warner-for-safer-sports
Today the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) (www.tvb.org), the not-for-profit trade association of America's commercial broadcast television industry, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Ad Council kicked off the tenth year of their nationwide public service advertising (PSA) initiative,
Imagine the progress and innovation we could achieve if we never lost our curiosity about the world around us – possibilities would remain limitless. John Hendricks founded the Discovery Channel and Discovery Communications* to revolutionize television entertainment and the way people think about science and the world around them. Hendricks today announced Curiosity Project, his new, personally funded venture to build a new educational initiative for a new age bringing audiences “deep dive” content in science, technology, civilization and the human spirit.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/65668-curiosity-project-john-hendricks-retreat-education-colorado
