How Many Times Did You Use The Word Awesome Today? Five, Ten, Fifteen Times? We Use The Word Awesome

How many times did you use the word awesome today? Five, ten, fifteen times? We use the word awesome so often and, most of the time, so incorrectly that the term has lost its original sense— maybe forever. Comedian Jill Shargaa explains why in this AWESOME TED talk.

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Bharara, Teachout, Lessig are all going to be here... and it's free and open to the public...

program here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventList.aspx…

register here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventRegistration.aspx…

Cuomo vs Bharara

Cuomo's Office Hobbled Ethics Inquiries by Moreland Commission

9 years ago

David Bowie

David Bowie, An Icon Who Wrote Anthems For The Alienated 

We Didn't Just Lose a Musical Hero, We Lost a Rebel

David Bowie Dies at 69; He Transcended Music, Art and Fashion

A Life of Legend:  Rockstar and Fashion Icon David Bowie

RIP David Bowie — Here’s His Isolated Vocal Track From “Under Pressure” With Freddie Mercury 

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Helen Green:  David Bowie animated gif (above)

David Bowie In Pictures Through The Years 

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The perfect David Bowie tribute is astronaut Chris Hadfield singing “Space Oddity”

Bowie himself called Hadfield’s cover “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created” when he shared the video on Facebook. The video features views of Earth from space and is spliced with shots of Hadfield singing and playing the guitar.

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - "The Little Drummer Boy (Peace On Earth)"

David Bowie’s last music video was most likely meant as a sort of goodbye

What did David Bowie do at your age? (type in your age and find out)

David Bowie's list of 100 favorite books reveal his true inner nerd 

Listen to David Bowie's incredible isolated vocal tracks to his iconic songs 

15 unforgettable David Bowie appearances from TV and film

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Other musicians scoffed at the web. David Bowie started his own Internet service provider.

'He was always funny': Conan remembers David Bowie with a touching tribute 

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11 years ago

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A speech from Carl Sagan that will make you cry

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9 years ago

The Panama Papers

Panama Papers:  The Secrets of Dirty Money

What are the panama papers?

What you need to know about the panama papers

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so, biggest corruption story EVER, and these were the front pages that reported on it in the United States on Monday:

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Hmmmm....  what does that say about the media in this country?  What does that say about corruption in this country??

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Panama Players:  The Power Players

400 reporters kept the Panama Papers secret for a year.  Here’s how they pulled it off

With over 2 GB of data...  11.5 Million documents....  this, is only the beginning...  there will be many, many more stories to come.... Not only that....  but:

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10 years ago

Eric Smalls is a sophomore at Stanford studying computer science. In 2012, President Barack Obama featured Smalls in a campaign video about the importance of...


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8 years ago
Hands On Activity

Hands on Activity


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11 years ago

If the vision he laid out Friday prevails, mass surveillance on innocents will continue and we'll never enjoy pre-9/11 privacy again.

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Psychopath

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3 years ago
Teaching

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