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How Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee Unified Liberian Women

Leymah Gbowee employed ingenious--and entirely peaceful--tactics in her women-led movement to end civil war in Liberia. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner is speaking out in a new PBS series about how she mobilized a nation of women to force dictator Charles Taylor out, and convinced warring factions to put the guns and machetes down. READ»

The iPad Is A $500 Kid's Game

A survey from PBS has revealed something pretty staggering for a $500-plus next-gen computing device: 70% of parents are happy to hand the iPad to their kids, and download child-friendly apps for the rugrats. READ»

State of the Union, the Digital Party

Did you watch the State of the Union on television, old-school style? The real party was online. Photos! Infographics! Salmon! Here’s a deeper look.READ»

How Would You Fix The Country?

Anya Kamenetz is among the innovative thinkers on tonight's Need To Know, here's a clip.READ»

Penn State's Geospatial Revolution Project: Where Are We, and How Did We Get Here?

Penn State University's new project isn't exactly existential, but it does answer some of life's big questions: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Turns out all those answers can be answered through GPS.READ»

The Smart Branding Story Behind Haiti's Brightly-Painted Buses

Haiti's bus system, called tap-taps, use intricate murals on their sides to communicate to riders that they're safe and reliable.READ»

Fire, Agriculture, Design: How Human Creativity Built Society

A new TV series flips the paradigm for art as an accessory to culture, proving that our need to create is actually what drives society's success.READ»

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Biz Stone Advance Video re: Twitter Hack

“We spent a lot of 2008 catching up with a lot of the popularity of Twitter, the unexpected popularity--getting there technically so that we were stable, and along comes this massive attack. You know, we learned. We worked behind the scenes with folks from Google and other companies to figure out how to stop the attacks and how to better deal with them in the future.”READ»