FEATURE
Harvard and MIT's Online Education Startup Has a New Way to Make Money
October 22, 2013 | The Atlantic
It’s been about a year and a half since massive open online courses (MOOCs) achieved notoriety, and the industry now has three giants: Coursera, Udacity, and EdX. Coursera and Udacity are West Coast-run, Stanford-spawned, for-profit standard-style startups. EdX is different: It launched as an East Coast, non-profit collaboration between Harvard and MIT. EdX, then, is more of a mystery.
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Has Science Lost its Way, at a Huge Cost to Humanity?
October 27, 2013 | Los Angeles Times
In today's world, brimful as it is with opinion and falsehoods masquerading as facts, you'd think the one place you can depend on for verifiable facts is science. You'd be wrong. Many billions of dollars' worth of wrong. Researchers are rewarded for splashy findings, not for double-checking accuracy. So many scientists looking for cures to diseases have been building on ideas that aren't even true.
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WBT Conference Draws Eclectic Innovation Mix, San Diego Included
October 24, 2013 | Xconomy
Can innovation come in more than one flavor? We have become so accustomed to the Silicon Valley way of doing things that it’s easy to forget that ingenuity engenders a million flowers to bloom. The WBT Innovation Marketplace, an annual tech conference that moved to from Texas to San Diego last year, provides a stage for entrepreneurs from the far corners of the world to present technology innovation from both beaten, and not-so-beaten paths. (See also Northrop Grumman interviews at the end)
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