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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Harvard, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
On December 8th, six “all-star environmental professors” came together at an event called “Harvard Thinks Green” and presented short, TED-style talks about the environment and strategies for reversing climate change. The event started with James McCarthy (Professor of Biological Oceanography) asking the question (see above), “Is it too late to avoid serious impacts of climate change?” A good question to [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics, Harvard | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last Wednesday, the Occupy movement gained a little more intellectual momentum when eight faculty members from Harvard, Boston College, and N.Y.U. gathered in Cambridge to present a daylong Teach-In. In one talk, Archon Fung (Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director of Transparency Policy Project at Harvard) took a vague thesis of the Occupy movement — [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, History, Literature, Philosophy | ≅ 3 Comments
During his days as Harvard’s influential president, Charles W. Eliot made a frequent assertion: If you were to spend just 15 minutes a day reading the right books, a quantity that could fit on a five foot shelf, you could give yourself a proper liberal education. The publisher P. F. Collier and Son loved the idea and asked [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
10 Harvard professors. 10 fascinating ideas. 10 minutes each. That was the gist of Harvard Thinks Big, a TED-esque event held on February 11th. Now fast forward several weeks, and the talks all appear online for free. Find them on YouTube, iTunes, or Harvard’s dedicated web site. Of all the 10 talks, we decided to feature one: Daniel [...]
≡ Category: Education, Harvard, TED Talks | ≅ 18 Comments
Next month’s edition of Fast Company (available online now) brings you a big, glowing tribute to TED and its TED Talks. It’s a lovefest in print, the kind that sells magazines. And, along the way, Anya Kamenetz (author of DIY U) makes some big claims for TED. Let me start with this one: I would go so [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, Online Courses | ≅ 11 Comments
Always good to see another major university making a contribution to the open course movement. The Open Learning Initiative undertaken by the Harvard University Extension School now offers eight free courses. This cluster of courses – the first Harvard has put forward – covers a nice range of topics. They feature some heavy-hitting members of [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Education, Harvard | ≅ Leave a Comment
Since 2007, Apple has offered universities around the world a way to distribute educational media via iTunes U. Fast forward to 2010, Harvard has now set up its own iTunes U section, with more than 200 audio and video tracks covering everything from the Harvard Kuumba Singers to a course on Justice with prominent political philosopher [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, Philosophy | ≅ 2 Comments
Lecture 3 of Michael Sandel’s ever popular course on Justice is now online. Here’s the summary of material covered by the newly added lecture. It’s provided by Harvard’s course web site: Part 1 — FREE TO CHOOSE: With humorous references to Bill Gates and Michael Jordan, Sandel introduces the libertarian notion that redistributive taxation—taxing the [...]
≡ Category: Education, Harvard, Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
That’s the question that The Ethicist asks in The New York Times. Below, I present the issue and part of the answer. Read through it all and tell us where you stand on the issue. The Issue The fiscal year for major university endowments ended June 30, and schools have been reporting their results: not good. [...]
≡ Category: Harvard | ≅ 4 Comments
The folks who publish the Harvard Business Review have conducted a study of Twitter, surveying 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to see how people are using the service. And here are the top level findings: “Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women.” “An average [...]
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