Hand-wringing About American Culture - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? - New York Times

Seeded on Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:48 AM EST (The New York Times)

Susan Jacoby would like to start a conversation about why the United States seems particularly vulnerable to such a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism.

education, american-culture, anti-intellectualism

BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles narrow digital divisions

Seeded on Thu Feb 7, 2008 10:01 AM EST (BBC News)

The use of mobile phones is shrinking the digital divide between developed and developing nations. Based on the annual Information Economy report by the UN body looks at the way that science and technology can drive long-term economic growth.

technology, un, mobile-phones, digital-divide

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Can Japan's paper plane fly in space?

Seeded on Thu Feb 7, 2008 5:12 AM EST (BBC News)

How paper airplanes might help design light space vehicles and inspire science learning.

space, science, origami, paper-airplanes

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank

Seeded on Mon Sep 4, 2006 5:00 AM EDT (BBC News)

Sadly, only hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? A good case of Celebr …

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