Last week, the federal government shut down the file-sharing website MegaUpload. During this shut down, they arrested several high-ranking executives of the website. There were claims that MegaUpload was illegally sharing copyrighted material, costing the music and film industry about half a billion dollars and profiting $175 million. In retaliation, the hacker group Anonymous responded [...]

“[Jane Roe] filed suit on behalf of herself and all those women who have in the past at that present time or in the future would seek termination of a pregnancy.” – Ms. Weddington in Oral Arguments of Roe v. Wade Yesterday marked the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. President Obama made the [...]

  Some things that happened over the weekend: Obama’s promise to double American exports in five years is actually on track. The Giants will be joining the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI after Raven’s kicker blew the game. After his loss in South Calolina, Mitt Romney agrees to release his 2011 tax returns as the race moves on to Florida. The beloved [...]

Here are the week’s best links that we couldn’t get to: 1. The New York Times looks at what the 1% do for a living. 2. Edgar Allen Poe’s grave went unvisited this year on his birthday. A 75 years running tradition nevermore. 3. And then there were four. Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican primaries this week. 4. The Feds [...]

Yesterday’s big story was Obama’s rejection of TransCanada corp’s $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline project, which would have carried carbon-heavy crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries in Texas. Environmentalists cheered. Conservatives seethed. But in reality, the decision is far from final. First proposed in 2008, the project was reviewed by the EPA and ultimately needed Obama’s approval [...]

As a member of LinkedIn, a professional social networking site, I receive weekly emails with links to interesting and relevant articles in the business and education sectors. This morning, I was interested by one in particular written in The Chronicle. If you follow any news regarding higher education, you’re likely to have heard of MIT’s [...]