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Marco Astorri
Nobility
He is the father of a prodigy: he invented a type of plastic that bio-degrades in only forty days. The incredible advantage to this groundbreaking material not only lies in its ability of being absorbed by nature, but rather in its origin. As a matter of fact, producing it doesn’t take a single drop of oil, only food industry waste products. This endeavor seems to have succeeded where many a scientist failed.
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Selene Biffi
the Bridge
She has an exceptional idea: creating a world organisation to support young people's attempt to develop the territories they live in. Today, thanks to the many possibility that Internet provides and the determination of this story's protagonist, this project is changing the face of nonprofit organisations.
Connection becomes a medium, a bridge through which skills and knowledge can be acquired and transferred. A winning project that started with 150 Euro and a categorical imperative: dreaming a different world
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Emilio Bizzi
the Paradigm
When he enrolled in the Medicine Faculty at the Rome University the word "neuroscience" did not even exist yet. Today, he is a professor at the MIT and researcher at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. His studies focus on motion control, memory control and thought organisation. His passion for research has lead his career choices for all of his life. But despite that he admits he has lived in a favourable social and political context, i.e. one in which study and science were regarded as core values
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Antonio Caprarica
the Aftertaste
He is surely one of the best-known faces of Italian news broadcasting. A correspondent that has made news coverage a joy, a pleasure with an aftertaste. A man that loves to tell stories but tell them with a subtle irony, something only few can do. A true professional with a polite but sharp style that showed us the human side of the British Royal family and showed us that London was much closer than we believed. An unmistakable, carefree style we could never live without umane.
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Martin Chalfie
the Speculation
He brought about a revolution in the world of research in molecular biology and thanks to his discovery of the green fluorescent protein he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008. The tale the green spark can tell us opens up countless new scenarios for the scientists and countless applications, first of all in disease diagnostics. A truly radiant and positive man, a researcher with stunning authoritativeness, a leader that loves music and sports.
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Patricia Churchland
the Continuity
Are emotions the result of neuronal processes? Churchland believes it is so although she also acknowledges that there are many variables and that the context is extremely complex. However, something is certain in this point of view: chemicals play a vital role. This neuroscientist is one of the key figures in eliminativism and all of her research follows this path, basically uniting together areas of knowledge that are traditionally kept separate.
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Giulio Giorello
the Resource
He is used to taking very clear-cut, yet lucid and brave, stances. In the Italian cultural scene he stands out for his attitude and openness towards a true dialogue on “sense”. This attitude he nourishes in several disciplinary areas, not necessarily with the Academia, but with whoever is capable of engaging is such dialogue. This existential attitude is also a way to approach philosophical and scientific issues.
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Chiara Lungarotti
Awareness
A woman who conquered the traditionally-male top of the wine-making sector with charm and resolve. She’s the CEO of a company she inherited from her father, she produces top quality wines with an unfettered passion. Fully aware of the deep relationship between her brand and her land of origin, her labels are not just commercial products but rather tales of history and culture of their land of origin
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Augusto Marietti
the Breath
19 and willing to bring about a revolution in the way web and mobile applications are made: a development platform for webmasters. An idea that everyone in Italy regarded as valid but that nobody wanted to invest in. So he set out for the Silicon Valley together with two friends. With just three computers, a blackboard and a rented garage they won the challenge and today Mashape is a real thing and not a chimera.
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Fiona May
the Gender
Fiona May is an unmatched athletic talent and the Italian long jump record holder. She has won several medals and international trophies and she still holds the national record. After a long, glorious career in athletics she was able to reinvent herself in the show business, demonstrating unique, impressive skills. Her disarming smile and irresistibly contagious tenderness make her a one-of-a-kind charity and social spokesperson.
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Paolo Nespoli
the House
He is an Italian astronaut, engineer and military officer. He loves diving, piloting tourist planes, assembling computers and other electronic devices and software as well. He has many qualifications and certifications. After 157 days on the International Space Station, he returned on the Earth on May 23, 2011 on board the Sojuz, successfully concluding the Expedition 27 mission.
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Filippo Ongaro
Transience
The European pioneer of functional and anti-aging medicine, he developed several methods to contrast fast aging astronauts are exposed to when in space. He devotes his professional life to clinical innovation, though is fervent advocate to an approach whereby the real challenge to the medical profession is to establish a humane relation with patients. He is strongly convinced that true scientific accomplishments are such the moment they are applied in hospital settings.
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Mario Alonso Puig
the Conquest
A doctor who, besides combining thought, word and physiology, shows that the state of mind can radically affect the biological condition of the body. Thus, the researcher turned into an “author” who published a guide on the greatest adventure of all times: the journey into ourselves. His book immediately turns into a hit as it poses a challenge to its readers: everyone’s potential is their conscience.
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Federico Rampini
the Depth
An attentive explorer. A reporter that does not just stay in the countries he works in but rather lives in and through the contexts he is sent to stay in. An author that published more than twenty essays in which he tells stories. Stories of journeys through modern world countries and through their economic, political and social changes. A brilliant intellectual, capable of telling and describing continents through locations, cities through cultures and major political events through small gestures
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Carlo Ratti
Extending
He is regarded as the most high-tech city planner in the world. With an eclectic training and a cosmopolitan soul, Carlo Ratti has an ambitious aim: making all cities more intelligent. He dreams of a dynamic and flexible architectural style, a cultural metaphor of our times. He believes that the digital dimension should be integrated in the material, physical construction and that the operational modalities offered by the Internet represent a challenge for contemporary designers.
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Giampaolo Rossi
the Community
An arts and humanities graduate, he developed different professional experiences in the multi-modal integrated communications sector. For a long time he has also dealt with issues related to the evolution of language and the cultural development of information society. For ten years he has developed several projects for multimedia, all related to reading and writing. A teacher of Theory and Technique of the cross media languages, ever since 2004 he is the Chairman of Rainet.
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Marina Salamon
the Essence
A talented entrepreneur that in a few years has built and presently runs a true economic empire. She believes in global market but she prefers real economics to finance. She loves technology, innovations, ecology. She is highly empathetic and capable of raising enthusiasm about her projects and put group mentality on the forefront. A true and proper Treviso woman that despite her many business engagements never neglects her family or civil commitments.
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Tali Sharot
Optimism
One of the world’s leading experts of the mechanisms that regulate brain activity. A successful researcher that deals, in a very special and peculiar way, with the implications of optimism on mental structures. An author that, in her recent book The Optimism Bias manages to deliver technical and scientific notions with an uncommon immediacy.
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Mario Tozzi
the Base
He is a geologist and journalist and also an expert in ecology and the host of several TV programmes on ecology and Earth in general. He is a vegetarian and he no longer uses the car at all as he believes the lifestyle and eating habits can directly influence the planet's health. He is a basically unstoppable science populariser that stops at nothing to spread "green" culture, including writing schoolbooks
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Enrique Vargas
Expression
One of the most thought-provoking director and drama researcher on the international scene. Founder of the Theatre of the Senses, he perceives and develops his performances as an experience. His performances are born from the will to modify the public’s face and mind, imbuing it with the poetry and tenderness a single gesture can hold. A true professional, one capable of carrying spectators in a world made of fairy tales, dreams and playing.
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