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October 13, 2011 9:12 AM
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Amal Ahmed, programming languages and type systems researcher Fran Allen, pioneer in compilers, winn... ...
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October 13, 2011 3:45 AM
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" ... passion .... energy.... joy" "... the soul of this company (...) the energy behind the companies ... " "... trusted by the people to change directions..." "... my team could doubt me...
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October 13, 2011 1:29 AM
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Minds, mirrors and reflections. All come together in weaving digital strands when crossing borders, melting boundaries, connecting minds; so it is only appropriate that this blog will hopefully ref...
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October 12, 2011 2:19 PM
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TED Talks Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
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October 12, 2011 2:13 PM
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TED Talks Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
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October 12, 2011 2:08 PM
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TED Talks Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose.
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October 12, 2011 1:50 PM
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Nesrine Malik: It is easy to celebrate women who are rich and powerful, but what about those who challenge the status quo?
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October 12, 2011 11:27 AM
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October 12, 2011 9:54 AM
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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the world's first computer programmer and to share inspiring stories about women working in science, technology and math.
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October 12, 2011 9:45 AM
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internet resources, links and literature about Jeanette Winterson...
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October 12, 2011 9:43 AM
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Virginia Woolf. Biography of Virginia Woolf and a searchable collection of works.
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October 12, 2011 9:40 AM
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October 12, 2011 9:23 AM
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" You need a vision (...) you sincerely believe in and its intrinsic value." "You need to be a motivator; you need to love people, by fascinated by their abilities, believe they can accomplish any...
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October 13, 2011 9:12 AM
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Science is a group of fields where women are in a significant minority. ...
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October 13, 2011 2:40 AM
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Bjork's iPad and iPhone applications for her album Biophilia are finally here in full. That Bjork is the first to develop an iPad app for an album is both strange and predictable.
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October 13, 2011 1:15 AM
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Water trickles on my skin. Refreshing, remembering. I breathe, taking in the clean moisture, mingling raindrops with air and river mists. Soft rain. Hard, hurried rain. Emerald green and the skybou...
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October 12, 2011 2:18 PM
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TED Talks Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky" investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources.
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October 12, 2011 2:10 PM
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TED Talks Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism.
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October 12, 2011 2:05 PM
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TED Talks At TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games...
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October 12, 2011 1:50 PM
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In an era marked by the extensive proliferation of new media technologies in the Middle East, the recent awarding by...
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October 12, 2011 11:27 AM
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Organizations see women in general, and mothers in particular, as a source of easy advertising, rather than as potential partners and effective influencers in their communities. That's a costly mistake.
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October 12, 2011 9:49 AM
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Recent years have seen an explosion of male joblessness and a steep decline in men’s life prospects that have disrupted the “romantic market” in ways that narrow a marriage-minded woman’s options: increasingly, her choice is between deadbeats...
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October 12, 2011 9:45 AM
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The official site of the author includes poetry, short stories, monthly column, journalism articles, excerpts from all her books, and links to interviews...
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October 12, 2011 9:43 AM
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October 12, 2011 9:24 AM
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Gina Bianchini helped usher in the age of social media nearly a decade ago when she co-founded Ning, a social networking site that launched the same year as Facebook.
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