Friday, June 17, 2011

Pottermore

By J. K. Rowling

Colleges should stop imitating Harvard

By Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring
CNN

Thursday, June 16, 2011

How to manage in-box 'bacon'

'Bacon' describes the mass e-mail you want instead of the spam you don't.
By Chris Gaylord
Christian Science Monitor

Wanted for Assault

This Season's Killer Styles Demand New Products, Strategies to Stop the Bloodshed
By CHRISTINA BINKLEY

Wall Street Journal

Excited About the Cloud? Get Ready for Capped Data Plans

By David Pogue
New York Times

Monday, June 13, 2011

Dogs View World Differently Than Most Humans Think, Best-Selling Author Says

Humans Try to Project Their Thoughts and Feelings Onto Their Dogs, but Dogs are in a Whole Different World, Author of 'Inside of a Dog' Says
By Andrew Brophy
Fairfield Patch

Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms

Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up.
By JOHN GARVEY
Wall Street Journal

Twitter’s Secret Handshake

By ASHLEY PARKER
New York Times

'Sovereigns' gaining attention in Washington

Deputies were prepared for the worst as they stood by in a Spokane County courtroom earlier this month during routine hearings for mostly low-level felonies.
By MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
Seattle Times

World's Most Expensive Cities 2011

By Vanessa Wong
Bloomberg Businessweek

How educated are state legislators?

Chronicle of Higher Education

Sunday, June 12, 2011

The Terrifying Truth About New Technology

Do robots and Twitter make you nervous? Growing old is what you're really afraid of
By DANIEL H. WILSON
Wall Street Journal

A Free Site Helps Find Stolen Cameras

By ROY FURCHGOTT
New York Times

‘You Look Great’ and Other Lies

By BRUCE FEILER
New York Times