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Create, Rip, Mix and Burn: A New Model For Corporate Learning

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Mon Feb 4, 2008 at 10:34 AM

The phrase "create, rip, mix and burn," popularized by Apple, summarizes how fans are personalizing and sharing their music experience. They are empowered with the ability to "create new music," "rip or copy music," "mix" this music ...READ»

CLASSROOMS | Comment

I-slate: An Electronic Chalkboard for Developing Nations

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 2:02 PM

The smell of chalk may bring back fond (or not-so-fond) memories of doing math problems in front of the class, but many children in developing nations only have access to small, erasable black slate tablets for all of their ...READ»

GRAND CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL HEALTH | 3 comments

Five Creative Ways to Improve Health Care in the Developing World

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 at 1:48 PM

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced that it has bestowed 76 grants of $100,000 each to scientists who have come up with unconventional ways to destroy infectious diseases in the developing world. Below are ...READ»

CARBON | Comment

Graphene: Source of The Next Industrial Revolution?

BY Kit Eaton
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 at 9:24 AM

"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ»

STARTUPS | Comment

My Favorite Bookmarks - Rebekka Weinstein

BY Lisa Chadderdon
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:50 PM

Picks from the 1997 "Future Entrepreneur of the Year."READ»

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT | Comment

Don't Analyze This

BY Paul B. Brown
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:46 AM

Take a deep breath. What you think you know about visualization is all wrong.READ»

SHAI RESHEF | 1 comment

Educational Entrepreneur, Most Creative Person Shai Reshef Gets Round of Applause at the UN

BY Anya Kamenetz
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Tue May 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM

A briefing room at the United Nations yesterday morning made a very official setting for an announcement about the international, high-tech, and almost free future of higher education. Shai Reshef, featured in our Most Creative ...READ»

GLOBALIZATION | Comment

Underground Movement

BY Tonya Garcia
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:12 AM

Everywhere in China, there's evidence of economic and social transformation. Change is in the air. It's even in the subways. Since 1998, Steven Lewis, director of the Transnational China Project at Rice University ...READ»

ADVANCE | Comment

Advancing Underrepresented Minorities in Technology: The Richard Tapia Conference by Caroline Simard

BY Caroline Simard
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Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Last week, I started a blog series about organizations and groups who are making a difference for underrepresented men and women in technology. Our research shows that only 6.8% of technical employees in Silicon Valley are ...READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | Comment

John Doerr's Startup Manual

BY Michael S. Malone
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:43 PM

If you could ask only one person for advice about starting a company or joining a startup, chances are you'd pick John Doerr.READ»

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New Earthly Extremophile Bacteria Could Live on Mars

BY Kit Eaton
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Fri Mar 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM

A new type of extremophile life has been discovered in Chile that may help us recognize what life on Mars may look like--and that will undoubtedly help in the search for discovering that life, should it exist. Scientists pondering ...READ»

ADVANCE | Comment

The Empowering Leadership Alliance: a national effort for underrepresented minority students in technology

BY Caroline Simard
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 12:31 PM

The police arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University, and President Obama’s comments on the incident, has re-ignited a national debate about race, bias, and stereotyping in the US. Regardless of the specifics of the ...READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS | Comment

Silicon Valley Gets Potomac Fever

BY Ronald Brownstein
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:46 PM

Doerr. Barksdale. Cook. Andreessen. Polese. Minor. They've changed business forever. Now they've set their sights on Washington.READ»

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First Jobs Aren't Child's Play

BY Ron Lieber
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:04 AM

Your youngest recruits may be fresh out of college, but they're ready to make grown-up contributions to your company. Here's how smart companies are getting the most out of their youngest employees.READ»

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