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Stanford Takes Online Schooling To The Next Academic Level : All Tech Considered : NPR

Last year, Stanford University computer science professor Sebastian Thrun — also known as the fellow who helped build Google's self-driving car — got together with a small group of Stanford colleagues and they impulsively decided to open their classes to the world.

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Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life - NYTimes.com

IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg, the ones that the doomsayers proclaim — with glee or dread — will go the way of vinyl records.

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'Outraged' Apple CEO Deems N.Y. Times' Exposé 'Offensive' | Reuters

“Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It’s not who we are.”

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You are a company employing underpaid, overworked Chinese workersr to make more money. That's what Apple is doing today. Fix it...

Dear Apple: Do something about Chinese working conditions | Molly Rants - CNET News

Open letter to Apple: You have the power to force good working conditions across the consumer-electronics industry, and it's time to make it happen.

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New CEO needs to step up and fix exploiting the workers while selling products for a bundle. Come to think of it, why doesn't Apple use more U.S. labor? Hmmm...

Ensure that every child in America has access to an effective school library program. | The White House

Ensure that every child in America has access to an effective school library program.

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Please sign this petition for school libraries, thanks and your kids thank you, too!

Google boggling our brains? Study says humans use internet as their main 'memory' | Mail Online

The Internet is becoming our main source of memory instead of our own brains, a study has concluded.

In the age of Google, our minds are adapting so that we are experts at knowing where to find information even though we don’t recall what it is.

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Why We Live in San Diego (a day in a dog's life in Balboa Park) | Balboa Park

According to my iPaw calendar, it’s the last week of January, and here I sit in a glorious field of green grass, freshly rinsed by a recent rain shower, planning for the coming week.

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The Read: America's Most Literate Cities | UTSanDiego.com

The annual ranking of America's Most Literate Cities is out, and San Diego tied for 33rd. Ouch.

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The Scout Report -- Volume 18, Number 4

The Scout Report -- Volume 18, Number 4

Latest issue, now online...

Smithsonian and Monticello Exhibitions on Jefferson’s Slaves - NYTimes.com

That was one of the chilling peculiarities of slavery in the United States: As revolutionary ideas of human rights and liberty were being formulated, slavery was so widely accepted that contradictions between the evolving ideals and the brutish reality of enslavement were overlooked or tolerated.

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About World Book Night

World Book Night is an annual celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books. To be held in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and Ireland on April 23, 2012. It will see tens of thousands of people go out into their communities to spread the joy and love of reading by giving out free World Book Night paperbacks.

via www.us.worldbooknight.org

‘Star Trek Online’ Free To Play

Like many MMOs before it, ‘Star Trek Online’ has become free to play. The game, by Cryptic Studios, takes place during the 25^th century, in the year 2409, which is beyond the last ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ film. In the game, players can become a captain of a Federation starship, exploring strange new worlds and defending the Federation from the Borg, or players can become a Klingon Warlord and expand the Empi

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I am going to "boldly go," just to see this for myself...

Consumer Group Slams Google's Orwellian 'Intrusion-is-Privacy' Policy; Demands An Opt-out... -- EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

Forbes noted, "Initially, many Google products and services, including Android platform-based Smartphones, were forcing consumers to establish Google accounts before becoming fully-operational. Now these private individuals and millions of other consumers across the globe are having the rules changed and forced upon them with no opt-out option, no means to protect their privacy, no way to say 'no' and 'mind your own business' to Larry and Sergey."

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Peter Green: The First Fine Careless Rapture | The New Republic

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How to choose what you share with Google - The Washington Post

You can edit some account preferences through this page, though other information, such as what Android devices are associated with your account, can’t be edited.

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Choice.. it's about freedom, privacy, and yep, control of your own information...

The New York Public Library: New Perspectives On Old Perspectives: How An Art Project Helped The NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection In Your Hands

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Fascinating...

Talk Nerdy To Me: Three Reads For Your Inner Geek : NPR

If you're seriously into reading, chances are, if you're not a nerd, then you've at least got some nerdy DNA somewhere in your intellectual genome. I know I do. But as a reader I sometimes feel like I'm being asked to identify with a hero who isn't nearly geeky enough — a hero with uncorrected vision and excellent orthodontics and really good hair. Sure, he's nice, but I doubt I would have wanted to sit at his table in the cafeteria in high school.

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Is the New Library Surrounded by Schools? Fact Check - voiceofsandiego.org: San Diego Fact Check

Statement: The city's new Central Library will be "within two and a half miles of 57 schools," Mayor Jerry Sanders said in his State of the City address Jan. 11.

via www.voiceofsandiego.org

S.D. city retiree health plan deal approved | UTSanDiego.com

A landmark deal on health care for retired city workers won final approval Tuesday from the San Diego City Council, solidifying and reducing a taxpayer-funded benefit that has been in dispute ever since it was promised to employees by ex-Mayor Pete Wilson.

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Feeding Your Brain Junk: Q&A with Clay Johnson, Author of 'The Information Diet'

In his new book The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption (O'Reilly, January 18), Clay Johnson calls attention to how much time we spend consuming information and, drawing parallels to how we consume food, points to the dangers of overconsumption and the consumption of overly-processed information. He sat down with PW to talk about the passive gratification of affirmation, and how to design a new, healthier information diet.

via www.publishersweekly.com