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Big Data | June 11, 2013 Justin Fox: "What Are the Rules of the Game For the Big Data Revolution?"
— Corporations and governments are playing games with our data, but nobody's defined the rules. Economics speaker Justin Fox recently weighed in on the National Security Agency controversy in a post for The Harvard Business...
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Authors | June 11, 2013 Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey: Great Fun From Today's Funniest Novelist
— Fresh off the presses, bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's new book Bad Monkey is creating quite a buzz. Bad Monkey is the latest in his lineup of satirical novels; it addresses the ecological and social ills of Florida with scathing and hilarious accuracy. With twelve other bestselling novels and four bestselling children's books under his belt, Hiaasen is one...
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Cities | June 11, 2013 2013 Creativity 50: Cities Speaker Candy Chang Makes The Top 10
— Cities speaker Candy Chang proves you don't need expensive, high-tech devices to transform public spaces. That's why she made the 2013 Creativity 50 list this year. Creativity is a website that features the best in design, advertising, and digital creativity. Chang made it into the...
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Digital and Social Media | June 10, 2013 Social Media Won't Consolidate: Alexandra Samuel Has Five Reasons Why
— Digital media speaker Alexandra Samuel writes about a contemporary quandry. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Vine: Why can't we have one social media site that does it all? In The Harvard Business Review she refers to our current "embarrassment of riches [which] has given marketing, communications and customer relations...
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Authors | June 10, 2013 First Review: Reza Aslan's New book, Zealot, is "Compulsively Readable" (PW)
— Reza Aslan's new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth is getting rave reviews. The book comes out in July. Publisher's Weekly had this to say:...
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Politics | June 10, 2013 Talks Of Energy Independence Are "Richly Ironic": Michael Levi
— For the first time in years, U.S. energy independence is a prominent talking point in academic circles. "It's richly ironic," energy and politics speaker Michael Levi points out. The fact that we're talking about it now, he explains, contrasts directly with what's happening worldwide. "The United States is more entangled in the global energy system than it has ever been," Levi discusses in an
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Rishi Desai's goal at the Khan Academy is to generate a wealth of content about pediatric infectious diseases and public health that is easy to access—and easy to understand—for anyone, anywhere. In talks like this one, he stresses the importance that open source, high-quality education can have in society—especially in the field of medicine. He explores this idea in-depth on stage where he shares the history of the Khan Academy and explains why self-pacing, open access education is so effective.