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Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft

Submitted by sgough on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 10:21pm
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The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why — in great detail.

Read the full article by Caleb Garling at http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/berkeley-google-docs-microsoft

 

Friday Feature: What adults can learn from kids

Submitted by sgough on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 5:32pm
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 TED Talk:
"Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach."
 

See the Ted Talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html  

Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate: Too Many Kids Go To College

Submitted by sgough on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 7:25pm
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Intelligence Squared US Debate: Too Many Kids Go To College
 
About this debate: The herd mentality that assumes college is the only path to reaching one’s full potential is under fire.  Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt, unemployment for those with bachelor’s degrees is at an all-time high, and entrepreneurs like the founders of Facebook and Microsoft prove that extraordinary success is possible without it.  But recent studies show that college is economically beneficial even to those whose jobs don’t require it.  Is it still the best way to ensure social mobility, or is America’s love affair with higher education unjustified?
 
 

   

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