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Documentary on Arizon'Mexican-American Studies ban

Outlawed in Arizona | Need to Know | PBS This week Need to Know travels to Tucson, Arizona, to report on a long-running dispute over a Mexican-American studies program. Supporters say the program

When you post information you believe will be viewed only by your friends on Facebook and other sites, it can still be viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like RIOT (Rapid Information Overlay Technology).

Social Media Tracking Software Demo Raises Concerns | IdeaFeed | Big Think The demo video shows Raytheon's Riot using social media to "gain an entire snapshot of a person's life...in little more than a few clicks of a button."

The Grammy Awards broadcast (Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on CBS) is arguably the largest musical event of the year, featuring live performances from some of the biggest names in music.

What you may not realize while you’re watching the event at home Sunday evening is that each one of the 21 live performances during this year’s show were only rehearsed with the live crew just a few times.

Grammys Audio Team Ensures The Show Goes Off Without a Hitch The Grammys broadcast features live performances from some of the biggest names in music. Let's go behind the scenes and see how the audio is produced.

If You Want the Real Silicon Valley, Skip Bravo and Tune In to PBS | Wired Business | Wired.com It's fair to say that without Intel founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore today's Silicon Valley startups wouldn't exist, and that's not just because the two churned out the first microprocessors.

Interview with Lena Dunham. She wrote and directed the independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), and is the creator and star of the HBO series Girls. In 2012, she was nominated for four Emmy Awards and won two Golden Globe Awardsfor Girls.

PressPausePlay - Lena Dunham Interview Lena Dunham, filmmaker, writer and producer. Visit http://www.presspauseplay.com to download the free interactive version of PressPausePlay.

Hundreds of mourners gathered on Capitol Hill Monday to celebrate the life of Internet activist Aaron Swartz and to advocate changes to federal anti-hacking law.

Swartz took his own life last month after fighting federal hacking charges for two years. In the fall of 2010, he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR from a library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Swartz had legal access to the articles, but his mass download violated the database terms of service agreement. Prosecutors refused to accept any plea deal that did not include jail time and a felony conviction, even though JSTOR had opposed criminal prosecution.

Aaron Swartz - The Network Transformation See with subtitles here: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/KXM6I5CKWtRW/info/aaron-swartz-the-network-transformation/ http://q.gs/3GggL San Francisco, April 200...

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Internships for Credit, Merited or Not When a cubicle is the classroom, who is grading the companies? Studies show that many colleges are ignoring their oversight responsibilities.

The Washington Square gets noted:

Let the kids do it « UMagazinology Redesigns have become so common, I was convinced that I was exhausted of anything new to say about them. Then came an envelope from Jody Ulate, editor of Washington Square, the magazine at San Jose State University, with two issues of her magazine and word that its redesign had been done by students...

Watch now: How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education | PBS NewsHour | PBS Video How Free Online Courses Are Changing the Traditional Liberal Arts Education

A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a lower cost via the Internet. New York Times has the story:

California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial Udacity, a start-up that offers online college courses, will offer low-cost remedial and introductory classes to students at San Jose State University and local community colleges and high schools.

Why doesn’t anyone pay attention? Nothing proves this like the research of Dan Simons, one of the authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.