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Introducing: Solvable

May 13, 20194 min
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Solvable will be a recurring showcase for the world’s most inspiring thinkers to propose solutions to the world’s most daunting problems.

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Pushkin. Why can't we feed the world? Is it possible to cure cancer? What will it take for governments and citizens to commit to act on climate change? Why haven't we solved the issue of equal pay for equal work? Why are so many people trapped in work that doesn't be in one of the world's richest countries. It's hard to believe that over a billion people are living without electricity. Why haven't we solved that already? Yes, there are so

many overwhelming questions, but also so many inspiring answers. My solvable is to take energy to where communities are. We are not going to solve poverty in the twenty first century if we don't solve energy poverty. My solvable is to get one million women and girls to learn how to code by the year. My solvable is where homelessness becomes something that is rare and is resolved as soon

as someone experiences it. My solvable is that refugees and displaced people should have poverty rates, inequality rates, lack of opportunity no greater than the rest of the population. I'm may have Higgins, and this is solvable from the Rockefeller Foundation. We're bringing you conversations between some of the world's best journalists and the incredible people working every day to solve the world's biggest problems, making a real difference to millions

of life around the world. Malcolm Gladwell interviews Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, whose scientific work made the treatment of AIDS possible. Do you know what you've done at the time, I knew what we had done in terms of cancer, We had broken over cancer research. I didn't know what else we've done. HIV hadn't been discovered. I didn't know we had set up the understanding of HIV. Jacob Weisberg speaks with activists maryam jam about hermitsion to get one million

women and girls writing code. Despite all the challenges and all the difficulty, you have the key to unlucky your life, So I am The Code is about coding. At the same time, it's about giving women and girls power to go and change their lives. And other extraordinary humans sit down to discuss They're Solvable with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Applebaum and writer Ahmed Ali Akbar from Pushkin Industries

and the Rockefeller Foundation. This is Solvable. Subscribe today in time for our launch and June fifth, and prepared to be seriously inspired

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