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U. Tube

Originally in: Boston Globe's Ideas section

Want a free education? A brief guide to the burgeoning world of online video lectures.

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Reserve another laurel for Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard, serial Pulitzer winner, and prominent intellectual: online celebrity.

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Q&A with Lewis Lapham

Originally in: Boston Globe's Ideas section

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Machiavelli predicted the Blackwater debacle. The Qing dynasty’s homeland security experts knew Great Walls make for great neighbors. Riding the rails was safer in Joseph …

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Sim Civics

Originally in: Boston Globe's Ideas section

New game-like computer software is empowering ordinary citizens to help design better cities. Can the professionals and the public learn to play well together?

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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, the future of urban planning arrived in the form of a wonkish but strangely addictive new computer game. In SimCity, a player …

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