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Here’s a quick recap of this week’s pieces: Atheists for Jesus, or Really a Debate Over Whether Religion and Science Can Get Along 25 Smart Video Podcasts That You Can Watch on Apple TV Wikipedia’s (Sometimes Dirty) Little Secret Starting Startups: A Free Course (and More) for the Entrepreneur Apple TV: Turn Your TV into [...]
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Over the past two days, NPR’s Fresh Air has devoted two programs to interrogating whether religion and science can co-exist. On Wednesday, air time was first given to Richard Dawkins, the famed Oxford University scholar of evolution who, with his recent publication of The God Delusion, has launched a vigorous defense of atheism. As you [...]
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Earlier this week, we discussed the recent release of Apple TV, the new gadget that lets you wirelessly download videos from iTunes to your cushy widescreen TV. For many consumers, the logical question to ask is whether there’s much to watch if they plunk down the $299 for the hardware. (Check it out in our [...]
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When you think Wikipedia, you think encyclopedia. And when you think encyclopedia, you think education, self enrichment and all kinds of good stuff. A trip to Wikipedia’s home page initially confirms those impressions. It points you to rather edifying content: an introduction to the Pashtun people, an entry on the Australian pelican, a look at [...]
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It’s not every day that a course like this gets given away. So, if you’re a budding entrepreneur, consider it your lucky day. Entrepreneurship and Business Planning is a free course available via podcast (iTunes Feed Mp3) that parallels a classroom course being offered at Carnegie Mellon within the Masters in Information Systems Management (MISM) [...]
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When Steve Jobs announced Apple’s new lineup of gadgets at Macworld in January (listen on iTunes or stream it), all eyes were focused on the planned release of the iPhone. Relatively lost in the commotion, however, was Apple TV, which started shipping this week. (Check it out in our Amazon store.) Despite the name, Apple [...]
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This is just a quick heads up. You can now watch online the first episode of This American Life. Showtime just started airing a televised version of the long-running and very popular radio program (which is also available as a podcast iTunes Feed Web Site). If you’re wondering how the show’s distinctive [...]
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Who knew that the iPod could help save lives? Check out this news story on Yahoo.
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Here’s a quick recap of this week’s pieces: Podcast Primer Oxford University Takes to iTunes Oodles of Google Video Documentaries Mr. Gore Goes Back to Washington America’s Shadow Army in Iraq The YouTube Threat to iTunes? The New Psychology of Success The Next Fifty Years of Science, and Other Videos from Googleplex Understanding Why Alberto [...]
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Oxford University now has an official podcasting presence on iTunes, albeit a small one. It’s hard to know whether this is part of a wider university initiative, or whether it’s just one academic program acting on its own (it seems to be the latter), but you can now listen to a series of four Oxford [...]
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