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...Maureen Dowd wrote a column in response to yours in which she draws a parallel between your approach to relationships and technology's effect on society and relationships. What did you think about that? People are always saying, "Aren't people more complicated than animals?" And we are. But one of the things that animals totally have over us is that they pay attention. We're always noodling around. We say things we don't mean because we're not paying attention. We miss things because we're thinking about what we're going to have for dinner. Animals...
...many things were a surprise about this whole experience. I'm a journalist. I like to live vicariously through all these stories, but I was always just a removed observer. And I found that this experience of being at that zoo and around those animals had this transformative effect that I describe in the book, but the other thing that happened to me that's not in the book is that I have never really been able to go back to a normal life. I miss all that animal contact. It opened a door in me that I have...
...network of experts from a diverse array of fields, raising the chance that someone might come up with a true out of-the-box solution. That's the sort of digital crowd-sourcing that helped create Wikipedia. [Hear Don Tapscott, the author of the book Wikinomics, talk about the effect of such mass collaboration on innovation in this week's Greencast, posted above.] "No company in the world has more than 1% of the resources in its given area," says Dwayne Spradlin, InnoCentive's CEO. "Suddenly, your organization can tap into hundreds of thousands of people with the right background...
...centered around the issue of whether a high percentage of students passing the tests was significant in light of a relatively low percentage achieving proficient scores. While many specific complaints about what the scores tell us are justified, we believe this debate masks a larger issue–the effectiveness of state standardized testing in general. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a series of standardized tests designed to measure the competency of students and schools in Massachusetts. Scores are also reported to the federal government under No Child Left Behind. The tests measure competency in English, math, science...
...Goolsbee had downplayed Obama's campaign trail rhetoric decrying NAFTA's effect on the American economy, saying that as President Obama would not seek to overturn or radically reshape the agreement, a deal that is viewed as a good thing by American's neighbors to the north. After first denying the meeting took place, the Obama campaign claimed that the written account mischaracterized Goolsbee's conversation and that there was no cynical difference between the candidate's campaign position on NAFTA and his true intentions should he become President...