Archive for March, 2011

TEDxSMU Tuesday 3.29.11

Books by John Wooden The Wisdom of Wooden: My Century On and Off the Court, by John Wooden, Steve Jamison, 2010 The Wisdom of Wooden is John Wooden’s final book, completed just weeks before his passing in June 2010. In it he shares his most treasured memories and never-before-seen photographs as he looks back on [...]

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TEDxSMU Tuesday 3.22.11

What Good are Mosquitoes? About.com There isn’t much love lost between people and mosquitoes. At the very least, these bloodthirsty insects are major annoyances, biting us with a persistence that can be maddening. If insects can be credited with evil intent, mosquitoes seem determined to wipe the human race out. As carriers of deadly diseases, [...]

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TEDxSMU Tuesday 3.8.11

Media and the Middle East Report: Egypt Shut Down Net With Big Switch, Not Phone Calls, Wired, February 10, 2011 The Egyptian government shut down most of its country’s internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. Middle East Uprising: Facebook’s [...]

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TEDxSMU Tuesday 3.1.2011

Big Dog Robot- Boston Dynamics Disgraced Korean Cloning Scientist Indicted, The New York Times, May 12, 2006 “…Dr. Hwang was hailed as a global stem cell pioneer and treated as a national hero until investigations late last year showed that he had fabricated key data in two papers published in the journal Science. He was [...]

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