These 100 awesome open courses, ranging from health and medicine to engineering to religion to policy making to media will get you on your way. picked by sharon22 6 months ago

Social workers in the Netherlands have taken legal action to try to stop a 13-year-old girl from sailing around the world on her own. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek, inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 13 years. They call their series Exactitudes: a record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. picked by queenofhearts 2 years ago

A great video that discusses the role of advertising in the exploitation of women and sexuality. Whether or not you agree with the message, this will make you think differently about the media that we are constantly exposed to. picked by mahler87 2 years ago

Buried alive because her tribe thought she had no soul. Plucked from the grave at the last moment by her brother. Then forced to live as a social outcast for three long years until sickness and neglect brought her once again to the doorway of death. This is the story of Hakani – whose name means "smile" – one of hundreds of children who are targeted for death each year amongs... read full post picked by TraumaMamma 11 months ago

An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers.
Check the media section for video picked by mutil8or 1 year ago

A new Firefox plugin called Identify makes the task of information-gathering easier, by displaying information and links to someone's blogs and social profiles with just one keypress. picked by Bornbad 7 months ago

For six years, 49-year-old Thomas Prusik-Parkin of Brooklyn disguised himself as his deceased mother so he could collect some $115,000 in Social Security and rent subsidies. He also kept a casket in his living room.

*Follow-up to this post.* picked by suebe 5 months ago

It seems the older crowd—people 25 and older—has given social networks the unmistakable stench of being not cool. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

The UK and world media have been delighted by a story from the University’s Treborth Botanic Garden this week. A ‘Century Plant’: so named as it was thought to take 100 years to flower. picked by Turtle 2 years ago

Be recruited into your college of choice and ease the college admissions process! This new, exciting service lets potential college students show that they are more than a test score! picked by drcmoe 2 years ago

Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation's leading government-run research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no classified information was retrieved, but admits that the perpetrators managed to acquire a database containing personal information about ORNL visi... read full post picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are being targeted so often by cybercrooks and other mischief-makers that half of the information-technology specialists surveyed recently by Intel expressed concern about workers under 30, who disproportionately use such sites. picked by eastcoast1978 11 months ago

A NYC Baker sees nothing wrong with selling "Drunken Negro Face" cookies, and doesn't understand why the media is having such a field day over them. picked by funkfrost 10 months ago

Use the amazing Identity Politics Outrage Generator to conjure instant sympathy and media fascination with the emotional minutiae of your heart-wrenching persecution complex! picked by chez 7 months ago

Yet again, world media ran with a story that sounded completely implausible and was presented without any credible evidence. The real story is the Media FAIL.
Update to this post. picked by equinox 3 months ago

A new study suggests that we lose and replace about half of our friends every seven years, and as a result the size of our social network remains the same over time. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Blu-ray outpaces HD-DVD in U.S.: Home Media Research. picked by punthe 2 years ago

As Harry Potter's sidekick Hermione Granger, she plays the perfect pupil with a butter-wouldn’t-melt smile. But as these pictures of Emma Watson prove, the 17-year-old is growing up fast. In a photoshoot for Tatler, the young actress swapped her neatly pressed Hogwarts school uniform for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel dresses, cutting an assured figure But despite stepping out on the cele... read full post picked by smilies32 2 years ago

Start babies drinking coca cola early in life for more social acceptance. picked by super 2 years ago