Category: Ideas We Like
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“Can girls do that too and stuff?” my daughter Rose asked me, for the second time. We were both glued to the live YouTube feed of Felix Baumgartner’s awe-inspiring freefall jump from the edge of space, even as we were visiting Seattle’s Museum of Flight (which curiously, wasn’t screening the historic event anywhere). My four…
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I’m still trying to understand why I did it. Why I purchased vinyl for the first time in decades (first the new Rush album, Clockwork Angels, later the three reissued The Jimi Hendrix Experience studio albums in honor of my son, Hendrix R.), and carted back dozens of decades-old scratchy records from my parents’ basement.…
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We’ve been “Hacking Edu” aggressively so far this month, with our successful Happy Hour last week, and tonight’s student-propelled Advisory Roundtable dinner. It’s our attempt to boldly re-imagine higher education, moving away from an industrialized, hierarchical model to a more nimble, collaborative one. How do we need to learn? What are we willing to pay…
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[UPDATE: You can now listen to the audio from my radio interview with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds on The Conversation about the National Day of Unplugging — just before I unplugged.] I lived in Israel for nearly four years as a journalist with NBC News. I never got quite accustomed to how the country would shutdown…
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