
Who ordered the fresh perspective? New York writer Clive Thompson offers an astute take on the billion dollar Google-Viacom debacle.

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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
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How tweeting, googling, and McJobs have changed the way we use branded words. When the American Dialect Society met in Baltimore in early...

No one’s arguing that we should cut back on internet searches, in part because Google doing a good job decreasing its data centers' energy use.
To say that feminine sexuality is a mystery to most men might be the understatement of the century. Though there's probably a more understated way...
Here's how you can help find missing people, or let the world know someone is safe through Google and Ushahidi's crisis maps.
Two related articles caught my eye recently. Yesterday the BBC reported that light reflected off of city skyscrapers disrupts the behavior of...

It's The Police versus Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. A clever holiday mashup from DJ BC.

Google is looking to discover the best young scientists in the world, and is throwing a big global science fair to find them.
Over at The New York Times' Economix blog, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser is trying to model the costs and benefits of building a...

Non-white Americans have been hit much harder by the recession than their white counterparts, yet they're more likely to be satisfied with the economy
By Matthew Manos.
The nearly 20 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds that are unemployed has been described as a potential lost generation. Strong language, but Matt...

Morning Roundup: From the Los Angeles Times: Who's teaching L.A.'s kids? A Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at...
The Microsoft CEO-turned-education reformer asks what the NYU education expert is thinking. Be careful what you ask for.

What's the difference between street art and graffiti?
The electric heat is on. The left coast's two most prominent bastions of progressive culture are caught in a race to build the nation's first...
Take that, Newsweek. In the battle to win over the hearts and minds of the American people, teachers' unions would do well to play a little...

Those social programs we can't afford? They could be complete paid for if we just got rid of tax breaks for the wealthy.
Ever since Central Falls High School in Rhode Island fired 93 teachers and staffers for poor performance, the debate around school reform has...

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