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NPR, 18.04.13 22:05 UTC

This Scientist Aims High To Save The World's Coral Reefs

Most scientists find a topic that interests them and keep digging deeper and deeper into the details. But Ken Caldeira takes the opposite approach in search for solutions to climate change. He goes ...

Stanford University campus  Stanford University  Carnegie Institution for Science  Ken Caldeira  Great Barrier Reef  guard   +6 more

Wired, 17.04.13 13:42 UTC

How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future

Image: Pixar Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore’s Law has been going strong. It’s approaching half a century despite frequent ...

New York Institute of Technology  Ray Smith  Gordon Moore  Lance Williams  John Lasseter  Stanford University  +15 more

CNN Top Stories, 16.04.13 17:28 UTC

How MLK became an angry black man

(CNN) -- By the time Clarence Jones reached him, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in bad shape. He was unshaven, dirty and dejected. King had spent several days alone in solitary confinement with ...

Barnard College in New York  We Can  Barnard College  Stanford University  Education Institute  Ku Klux Klan  +42 more

BBC World News, 16.04.13 08:59 UTC

North Korea novel wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son.

Stanford University  Stanford University  Johnson   Stanford University  North Korea 

BBC Sciences, 15.04.13 20:15 UTC

Dark-matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues

Researchers have revealed the first potential hints of the elusive material called dark matter at an underground laboratory in the US.

Stanford University  Stanford University  American Physical Society  Blas Cabrera  Stanford University  Switzerland  +3 more

Seattle Times, 15.04.13 19:49 UTC

Adam Johnson wins fiction Pulitzer

Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high literary honor a year after no fiction award was given.

Adam Johnson  Fredrik Logevall  Stanford University  North Korea  Vietnam  Disgraced  +3 more

Daily Mail, 12.04.13 04:17 UTC

'Most children learn how to swear before they even know the alphabet': Forget the ABC, toddlers prefer the F word

PUBLISHED: 14:59 GMT, 11 April 2013 | UPDATED: 04:07 GMT, 12 April 2013 Most children learn how to swear before they even know the alphabet, according to a new book that examines bad language and its ...

ABC, Inc.  researcher   Stanford University  Stanford University in California  Mellissa Mohr  Stanford University  +1 more

Seattle Times, 12.04.13 00:18 UTC

LinkedIn to pay $90M for e-reader company Pulse

Professional networking website LinkedIn is paying about $90 million to acquire Pulse, which makes an e-reader platform used on mobile devices.

USD  Stanford University  Stanford University  Stanford University  e-reader  e-reader applications  +7 more

CNN Top Stories, 11.04.13 19:15 UTC

Thatcher led in fighting terrorism

Editor's note: Kiron K. Skinner is director of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for International Relations and Politics and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Along ...

Stanford University  Carnegie Mellon University's Center for International Relations and Politics  Labour Party  Stanford University's Hoover Institution  House of Commons  Reagan administration  +33 more

Wired, 11.04.13 19:14 UTC

Tiny Injectable LEDs Manipulate the Brain With Light

Image: John Rogers, University of Illinois/Beckman Institute Tiny, glowing probes packed with LEDs and sensors are scientists’ newest tool for measuring and manipulating the brain and other living ...

University of Illinois  Stanford University  Mark Schnitzer  Urbana-Champaign  John Rogers  John Rogers\xc2  +15 more
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