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August 17 2010

08:51

Earth As Art

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May 13 2010

16:25

Welcome to Point-Topic, the leading websource on DSL and broadband

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January 21 2010

13:44

Official government data sites around the world | News | guardian.co.uk

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December 02 2009

15:14

Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture

What can we learn about contemporary culture from watching dayglo-clad teenagers dancing geekily in front of their computers in such disparate sites as Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Mexico City? How has the embrace of "new media" by so-called "digital natives" facilitated the formation of transnational, digital publics? More important, what are the local effects of such practices, and why do they seem to generate such hostile responses and anxiety about the future? Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist, blogger, DJ, and, beginning this year, a Mellon Fellow in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT. His research focuses on the production and circulation of popular music, especially across the Americas and in the wider world, and the role that digital technologies are playing in the formation of new notions of community, selfhood, and nationhood. http://cms.mit.edu/news/2009/11/podcast_skinny_jeans_and_fruit.php

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15:13

LIVE from the NYPL

The President of the Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson joined by Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money , Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, and Nassim Taleb, scholar of randomness and risk and author of The Black Swan together will examine: What will the American economic system look like in the months and years ahead? Who are the innovators currently shaping the future? What will be the role of business in that future? http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=5850