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Do Not Track allows us to veto tracking by third parties, who are welcome to respond by offering cash-for-data. It creates a market mechanism for negotiating over privacy preferences.
Have you heard of Rebecca Black? If not, you may be living under a rock. Her (sickly-sweet-teeny-bopper) song recently got over 62 Million views on Youtube in less than 50 days. […]
My doctoral student, Trent Grundmeyer, wants to study alumni of 1:1 laptop schools for his dissertation. More specifically, he’s interested in those students’ perceptions of their college readiness, college learning, […]
As educators, parents, and citizens, we need to begin envisioning the implications of new characteristics for learning, teaching, and schooling.
@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing. We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where […]
If it lives up to its initial promise, the much-ballyhooed new app Color represents a fundamentally new type of mobile social network that, in many ways, is almost the polar opposite of Facebook. What’s so radical about it? For one, Color has done away entirely with the notion of the Friend.
In less than two weeks, I'll be taking a short pilgrimage from San Francisco to Monterey for the e.g. -- an event that has been summarized to me by a previous attendee as "what TED […]
We have never learned how to use instructional media in our schools in any predictable or systematic way. An even greater problem is that we have not learned how to […]
Big Think spoke to The New York Times chief theater critic, Ben Brantley, about the present and future state of journalism and online criticism.
Men and women tend to use humor differently, says the New Yorker cartoonist.
Getting over half a million hits on your very first post is every blogger's dream. That's what happened to Prof. William Cronon, a distinguished professor of American history at the […]
Want millions of people to read your blog every month? Listen to these tips from blogging pioneer Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Dish.
The utility at Fukushima (TEPCO) announced that radioactive water was found to be 10 million times normal levels at Unit 2, prompting evacuation of that site and world wide anguish […]
As I’ve noted before, long-term demographic trends in the U.S. work against the Republican Party. As Michael Grunwald put it, the country is steadily becoming “less white, less rural, less Christian.” […]
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different,” wrote T.S. Eliot in a […]
Can and should we try to drill deep into the earth, past the crust and into the mantle? We've tried in the past but haven't gotten far. If the earth was an orange, we'd have barely zested it.
As Europe takes the lead on the Libyan intervention, it's a powerful signal of America's weakening global influence. Peter Beinart on Obama's Jeffersonian turn—and the end of an empire.
As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: its companies provide much of the technology used to block websites.
Germany and Pakistan may be apples and oranges, but the point is that the current artistic and creative ferment in Pakistan is not sustainable, just as the Weimar Republic fell to fascism.
Forbes' Gordon Chang echoes American politicians' calling for military intervention in Syria. Our foreign policy interests are at stake, he says, and it's not worth waiting for international consensus.