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Frustrated by the things that wash up. but rather than bitch and moan, she gets all kinds of attention for her efforts. she and her husband have been turning flotsam and jet sam into towering sculptures of marine light like many bloody do-gooders, angela has a nonprofit. hers is called washed ashore. and its goal is to make a connection between what we throw away and the planet we're trashing when we do so. >> we throw away things, but we don't know where away is. >> and man, we shur do throw a lot of stuff away. >> there's so much of it. >> most people don't have any idea how big of a problem...

There is something odd about this, because they're protesting outside the securities office, yet securities are the most equal form of economic activity there is. if i own a share of gm, the share of gm doesn't know who owns it. if i own a share of google, that share knows who owns it. if there is a poor person that buys a share in a company, that share is the same as if a rich person buys it. there is total 100% equality in the ownership of securities, and that's something presumably we want more of. >> what a lot of these protesters say, of course, stan, the rich do-gooders can buy more. >> ...

>> techshop is also perfect for bloody do-gooders. let's say, for instance, you're horrified by the infant mortally rate in third-world countries brought about by the fact most premature babies die because they can't get to an incubator fast enough. you decide to build a portable incubator that doesn't need electricity. where are you doing to do that? techshop. >> there's a polymer pouch, you boil it, stick it in here and it keeps the baby warm for a number of hours. this is on track to save 100,000 babies. >> but techshop is not all about nobel-prize-winning ideas or billion-dollar businesses...

>> this robot sees under water and sends video back up this tether. you can drive it from your laptop and see what the robot is seeing. >> the whole place is designed to help you make your vision a reality. >> often somebody will ask me, what's the most successful story that's come out of techshop? we tell them, this little guy. so this is square. a little peer-to-peer transaction processing play. most folks have probably seen it now. it goes in the end of your phone. do credit cards, and anybody now with a checking account has access to the merchant banking industry which turns out to be a re...

To watch the academy award about "american sniper," obviously it played a big role, a lot of questions whether this guy could have ever gotten a fair trial and as you pointed out, it only took them three hours and they had a dinner break in the middle of the three hours. >> you know his lawyers are going to appeal. that's his right a. very tough road to hoe. they tried for a change of venue, they were unsuccessful. legally, if these two victims were anonymous do-gooders i still think we would have seen the same outcome. why? because in texas the road to acquittal by insanity grounds is incredi...