by Jared | Mar 7, 2008 | Learning & Education
Randy Pausch delivered his Last Public Lecture, entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ at CMU on September 18, 2007. This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to...
by Jared | Mar 5, 2008 | Learning & Education
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean’s hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there are tens...
by Jared | Mar 3, 2008 | Learning & Education
Three major population genetics studies have provided the firmest evidence yet of humanity’s ancestral migration out of Africa. Their findings support the widely accepted hypothesis that humanity’s ancestors traveled from East Africa through Central Asia...
by Jared | Feb 15, 2008 | Learning & Education
This is an amazing project, it will give everyone access to the worlds knowledge on the 1.8 million species currently known, and provide the ability for people to help grow the information as there are millions more unknown to us. This is going to be the best school...
by Jared | Feb 14, 2008 | Learning & Education
As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we’re still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to...
by Jared | Feb 11, 2008 | Learning & Education
I love my RSS reader! I use Google Reader everyday to get the latest information from websites around the world, its changed the way we use the web, allowing us to get information faster. But I know this is new and people are still unsure what RSS is, so I will let...
