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5 Projects Helping Open Media Studies To The World

BY Sam Ford | 02-21-2012 | 7:47 AM | INNOVATION

Academic research has traditionally only been shared in campus talks, at conferences largely attended by professors and graduate students, and through publications available primarily only to professors and academic libraries. That's changing. READ MORE›

Should Big Oil Fund Energy Research at Universities?

BY Ariel Schwartz | 10-15-2010 | 3:04 PM | ETHONOMICS

Universities need money to perform research, and rich, peak oil-wary petroleum giants need researchers to find more efficient ways to drill for oil. It seems like a reasonable match--but are oil company-sponsored research projects unduly influenced by their sponsors?READ MORE›

National Broadband? There's One Already--With No Taxpayer Funding!

BY Kit Eaton | 05-05-2010 | 7:18 AM | INNOVATION

Amongst the fuss and pointless politicking about the National Broadband plan, did you know that there already is a nationwide super-fast fiber broadband infrastructure? It's called National LambdaRail (NLR), and it's been privately ...READ MORE›