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On yesterday’s edition of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver continued his strong run of main stories—see, for instance, his recent segments on net neutralityand income inequality—with 17 minutes on America’s exceptionally high incarceration rate, the horrendous conditions inside many American prisons, the problems with privatization, the tastelessness of jokes about prison rape, and...
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Education can take you amazing places and bring amazing things to you.
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As director of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito is constantly thinking about what the future might hold. But, he says, an obsession with what's to come is unhealthy and unhelpful. Here, he shares 8 piece...
But, I say that an obsession with being prepared for the future is healthy and helpful. Most people are not prepared to take advantage of what technology is bringing our way. Let's get prepared and have fun on theway.
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“Pickles,” chef Michael Laiskonis tells me as I poke at the plate he’s put in front of me. The menu said beet salad, but this isn’t that weary marriage of root vegetables with goat cheese, pistachio, and arugula. The former Le Bernardin chef reveals that it’s roasted beets and white...
The old profession of culinary arts and new technology leads to....
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The latest from MENTOR (@MENTORnational). MENTOR is the lead champion for expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States. Boston, MA
Only 7% of U.S. volunteers' main activities revolve around #mentoring, while 89% of @UnitedWay CEOs say it's needed for change. #BeAMentor
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I have a dream too.
That intellectuals from minority groups can be identified as experts in subject matter that does not pertain to being a minority.
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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
We really need to take heed. It's not all good. But, it can be better. It has to get better.
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For decades, immigrants arriving on U.S. soil have welcomed their new country by adopting a fresh and more American-sounding name—popular choices included William, John, Charles, and George. Whether they knew it or not at the time, that assimilation did more than help them fit in around the neighborhood. Changing a...
I guess that there is something to be said for th old tried and true.
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To think that a teacher can raise your children is ridiculous. To think that a teacher alone can educate your children alone is equally ridiculous. As the old saying goes "It takes a village." Let's help those who are trying to help others.
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Are photons really timeless? Watch astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson blow comic co-host Chuck Nice's mind in this Cosmic Query about photons, Einstein's the...
My man Neil deGrasse Tyson making learning fun and interesting. Keep up the good work.
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Digital technology is transforming manufacturing, making it leaner and smarter—and raising the prospect of an American industrial renaissance.
3D printing. This will truely be disruptive. 3D printing may create a lot of great opportunities. But, for those who are not prepared for this disruptive technology 3D printing could mean disaster. Let's get prepared.
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THOR is an electromechanical, bi-pedal humanoid platform that has been designed to participate in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (Track A), which focuses on th...
Wow! What a great time to be alive. Hopefully, I'll live long enough and become rich enough to buy one of these guys to walk my dog or wash my car.
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If you think the stock market can be a gamble, you'd now be wrong. The latest trading software developed by Virtu--a company specializing in high-frequency trading--has had only one day of loss in the past four years.
Our educational system is failing those who are in it. What will those who are not in it do in the future?
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Follow a robot as it works its day job—transforming the world of e-commerce by hustling packages around the giant warehouses that propel the modern economy. New robot minions: Welcome to the team.
You and your high school diploma vs. a robot. Who wins?
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First thing to do is to figure out what content to post here.
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