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Innovation on the mobile platform has been held back by carriers—until now. The new possibilities have the Wikipedia founder excited.
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Dan Zanes headed an 80’s rock band out of Boston, got some breaks, toured, but then left and eventually became a renowned children’s musician. Does he miss it?
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Dan Zanes, a happy and successful family musician, was solicited and wound up with a role in the recent movie “A Wonderful World,” about a grim and failed children’s musician—how […]
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What happens when you leave an 80s rock band? Go Solo? Self Produce? Make family music? Dan Zanes outlines the path toward redefinition.
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As the monoliths of the music industry slowly fade into obsolescence, a new framework, in which one escapes the odd predicament of not owning a word of what one has […]
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The Grammy-winning composer explains why the most important element in songwriting is imagining it as a party.
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The folk legend has a curiously inspiring legacy—partly due to his unique ability to render almost anything into music and also because many aren’t entirely sure just how he played […]
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A conversation with the family musician
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The Vanderbilt anthropologist claims that the Internet and sites like Second Life have taken the romance out of love.
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Ted Fischer talks about how people act financially and how they behave romantically and how those two behaviors are opposed to each other, often needlessly.
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The Vanderbilt anthropologist describes what we look for in a mate.
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As the anthropologist explains, women are hardwired to crave a steady, monogamous relationship, whereas it makes much more evolutionary sense for men to always have a few extra options on […]
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The Vanderbilt anthropologist describes how ultimately chemistry might fade. But when that happens, compromises can keep a relationship going.
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How lovers show affection differs from one culture to another. And even the notion of romantic love itself is not confined to a man and a woman.
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In New Guinea and the Amazon, it is common and culturally acceptable for men to have sex with men.
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Vanderbilt anthropologist Ted Fischer describes the evolutionary reasons for falling in love and how modernity has urged it along.
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A conversation with the anthropology professor at Vanderbilt University.
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The CEO of Baltimore’s public schools wants “everybody to do their job better.” He’s dedicated himself to making that happen.
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“A funny combination of confidence and humility” makes a great leader in the school system, as Andres Alonso explains.
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Why technology is now “tremendously important” to meaningful education reform.
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An incident from early in his teaching career taught Andres Alonso to “keep looking for the key” to each student’s learning style.
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The fourth season of the acclaimed TV drama was all about the Baltimore school system. So why won’t the real-life CEO of Baltimore’s public schools watch it?
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Bush’s famous education act was laudable in some ways, too “timid” in others. Should the Obama administration work within it or forge a new path?
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It’s often said that public schools must be made more “accountable.” How—and to whom?
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The CEO of Baltimore’s public schools explains why shutting down underperforming schools isn’t always in the best interests of teachers, but can work wonders for students.
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Andres Alonso “didn’t arrive with a blueprint” for fixing Baltimore’s ailing school system. But he did bring an ironclad standard for progress.
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The Baltimore schools CEO discusses the remarkable strides he’s made in turning around one of the poorest, most under-served districts in the nation.
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A conversation with the CEO of the Baltimore public school system.
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Remember in movies like “Armageddon” and “Independence Day,” when the world united to combat asteroids and aliens…well, why can’t we do this in the sustainable energy movement?
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The future of the American auto-industry will be based around start-ups, creating slick, even “slippery”-looking electronic cars.
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