Giving away the secrets of cancer research

Harvard researcher Jay Bradner discusses his approach to open-source cancer research.

Colbert and that entertaining form of corruption

Stephen Colbert provides his amusing spin on the corruption of big-time college sports by interviewing Taylor Branch, author of the e-book The Cartel, which is an expanded version of Branch’s cover story from the October issue of The Atlantic, The Shame of College Sports (H/T Jay Christensen).

Your web presence after death

Adam Ostrow: “By the end of this year, there’ll be nearly a billion people on this planet that actively use social networking sites. The one thing that all of them have in common is that they are going to die.”

The promise of the driverless auto

The Genomic Revolution

The Generosity Experiment

Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment from NextGen:Charity on Vimeo.

Niall Ferguson on The Great Divergence