By W. Patrick McCray, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he leads a research group at the school’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society. He is also the author of  ”The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future”.   Google the phrase “Peter [...]

Despite the fact that bears have played an integral role in Indian culture – think of Jambavan, the king of bears, who appears in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha – they simply aren’t getting the same kind of positive conservation attention as many other vulnerable species. Instead, rising conflicts between humans and bears – [...]

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – Nov 27, 2012) – LiveLab® Network announced a new kind of program — the first to converge live experiential and social media interaction with real time optimization. Inventing the Future with Robert Tercek is about what’s next after what’s next. The series will launch live during New Media Expo in Las Vegas [...]

By W. Patrick McCray, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he leads a research group at the school’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society. He is also the author of  ”The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future”.   Google the phrase “Peter [...]

Despite the fact that bears have played an integral role in Indian culture – think of Jambavan, the king of bears, who appears in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha – they simply aren’t getting the same kind of positive conservation attention as many other vulnerable species. Instead, rising conflicts between humans and bears – [...]

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – Nov 27, 2012) – LiveLab® Network announced a new kind of program — the first to converge live experiential and social media interaction with real time optimization. Inventing the Future with Robert Tercek is about what’s next after what’s next. The series will launch live during New Media Expo in Las Vegas [...]

Susan Lacy’s “Inventing David Geffen,” which premieres Tuesday as part of the PBS series “American Masters,” takes a long look at the agent-manager-record-mogul-movie-mogul (and Broadway producer and billionaire philanthropist). In Los Angeles, he is also a sort of proper noun: “The Geffen,” attached here to a playhouse, there to an art museum. As a [...]

Click thumbnails to enlarge David Geffen walks with Cher in the ’70s. Crosby, Stills and Nash worked with David Geffen in their prime fame days. Click to enlarge David Geffen’s life is profiled in “American Masters: Inventing David Geffen” on PBS.  David Geffen’s far-reaching influence — as agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway [...]

The story goes like this: On the first day, a working-class Brooklyn kid named David Geffen created himself, landing a job in the William Morris Agency’s mailroom by lying about having a college degree and forging a letter to “prove” it. On the second day, Geffen quit the agency, created the career of singer-songwriter Laura [...]

Susan Lacy’s “Inventing David Geffen,” which premieres Tuesday as part of the PBS series “American Masters,” takes a long look at the agent-manager-record-mogul-movie-mogul (and Broadway producer and billionaire philanthropist). In Los Angeles, he is also a sort of proper noun: “The Geffen,” attached here to a playhouse, there to an art museum. As a [...]