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Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology

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I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is...
    






Reading A Novel Could Physically Change Your Brain (But What Does That Mean?)

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It turns out that reading a novel can cause measurable changes in how connected portions of your brain are. That, at least, is a conclusion of a study performed at Emory University, which was...
    






Salman Khan, The Most Influential Person In Education Technology

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I have had the good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is...
    






Can A Latin American Entrepreneur Help Disrupt Social Media Marketing In 2014?

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@giorodriguez  Maybe.  Keep an eye on Lance Rios, parallel entrepreneur, and first to be profiled in the new blog series, “150 Puerto Ricans” Several months ago in this column, I had a announced a...
    






Bubbles, Banks And Bitcoin

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We are used to money being created by the state. Or rather, we are used to money being created by banks on behalf of the state. The state has no direct control over the quantity of money created by...
    






Why Top of the Funnel BI Will Drive the Next Wave of Adoption

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Business Intelligence practitioners should steal some lessons from the marketing department in their quest to bring data and analytics to the masses. Instead of obsessing with improving existing...
    






Astronauts Complete Repairs On International Space Station

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At 2:23pm EST, Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins successfully completed the installation of a new ammonia cooling pump on the International Space Station, completing a repair of a faulty...
    






The Book That Predicted Obamacare’s Failure — And America’s Rebirth

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In three short months, Obamacare has exposed, with 200 proof concentration, the fundamental mismatch between government’s limited knowledge and its unattenuated power. The Administration is now “...
    






Does Christmas Destroy Wealth?

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Usually the so-called “War on Christmas” is cast in culture terms. (Is it, for instance, really a War on Christians?) I have it on good authority from one writer friend, who’s doing the research,...
    






Harvard Monkeys Die

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Harvard Medical School is guilty of mistreating monkeys at its animal research labs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced yesterday that it has fined Harvard Medical School $24,000 for...