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Following today's sad news that Apple cofounder Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56, take a moment to watch his moving 2005 commencement address to Stanford University graduates. He reflected on his own life and career, before imparting inspirational advice: "You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large Read more
If you want to get your MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business is the crème de la crème. The ranks of illustrious alumni go on to become billionaires, founders or heads of multinational companies of which includes Yahoo!, Time Warner, BP, Gap, Nike, and more. Lizabeth Cutler, Stanford's Assistant Director of MBA Admissions, shed some helpful insight about the famous school. Her tips can Read more
You can already check your email, play games, and find a new restaurant on your iPhone, but now you can also use it as a musical instrument and join an orchestra. No way, right? Leave it to the uber geeks at Stanford to figure out a way to harness the vibrations from the iPhone and turn it into music. Ge Wang, the founder of Stanford's Mobile Phone Orchestra (or MoPho), shows us how he and his Read more
Stanford University researchers have identified the gene that makes dogs' fur black, and may also shed light on differences in people's body size and ability to cope with stress! The work narrowed the genome region to a gene that makes a beta-defensin protein – one version of this beta-defensin gene produces yellow pups, and another produces black. In fact, all dog coat colors are modifications Read more
We all want to be efficient, right? Especially when we exercise. Well, according to Michael Fredericson, Ph.D., a running bio-mechanics expert at Stanford University, 90 percent of runners waste energy with stride errors and faulty gait. That basically just means running "funny" - length of steps being too short or long and/or pelvis swinging too much from side to side. Fredericson concluded Read more
LearnVest talks about a new way to get your student loans: from the school's alumni. It’s the newest thing in student loans: a social lending service where alumni can help finance the education of current students. SoFi, a service brought to our attention by Mashable, lets alumni “buy a share” of the students at a school who currently have loans. As the students pay off the loans, the Read more
We're excited to present a post from one of our favorite sites, Stylelist Home! Last month, we were offered a window into the behind-the-scene workings of the flash sales site One Kings Lane with the launch of its editorial site Live.Love.Home. They've certainly been making a lot of changes it seems, and now, the sales site brings you the new permanent online shop Vintage & Market Finds, Read more
After seeing the success of a personal experiment offering a free Stanford University-certified artificial intelligence course (23,000 people completed the class!), Sebastian Thrun left his prestigious professor position to dedicate himself to teaching on a much larger scale. His new program, Udacity will offer free university-level computer science classes to anyone interested in advancing their Read more
The Stanford Inn, an eco-friendly resort in Mendocino, CA, offers an idyllic escape from high-speed city life. Burrowed in a thick redwood forest and overlooking an amazing seascape of the Pacific, the Stanford Inn is a quintessential Fall relaxation spot for nature aficionados (and is pet friendly, too). When I stayed there recently, I found the air quality to be unlike anything I have ever Read more
We may have Valentine's Day on the brain, but February also marks an important time of the year — Black History Month. In honor of Black History Month, let's take a look at some of our favorite geeks, both past and present. Everyone on this list has made vast contributions to furthering tech as we know it. Dwayne McDuffie — The recently passed McDuffie wrote comic books for both Marvel Read more
