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Forget poking on Facebook or IMing people, shaking a hand or putting an arm on someone else's shoulder is where social interaction really begins. In Japan, this need for touch has extended to a focus on pets, including cafes for petting cats

Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic

Science and math won't improve U.S. job prospects

Gamemaker Unity moves into the educational game space, hopefully with more panache than those that have come before. The groupies packed San Francisco's historic Masonic Center like Wi-Fi-toting sardines. The headliner?

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Texas higher-education officials delivered a stern message to physicists yesterday that the state is likely to stick to plans to phase out 'low-performing' physics programs within the next year or two if they cannot demonstrate compelling plans to improve.

Putting the power of online video into the hands of teachers.

Some of us spend the weekends kicking back. Or gardening.

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams.

A presentation about the connection between climate and weather in 24 locations around the world, every hour for 24 hours, culminating tomorrow with a presentation by Al Gore himself. Watch and learn. It's been five years since former vice president Al Gore managed to delight the world with what was essentially a feature-length slideshow

A look at the key milestones--and quotes--that shaped this true visionary's career 1955: Steve Jobs was born and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a machinist and an accountant, in Mountain View, CA. 1974: After one semester at Reed College, Jobs, at age 19, drops out and takes a job at Atari, but leaves shortly later to travel India

Pulse News is a must-have app for Dan Wasyluk, founder and CEO of CollegeBlender. My website aggregates blogs, gossip, and news about college life, so I have to stay abreast of stories that appeal to our audience. As soon as I got my iPad 2 a few months ago, I searched for an app that could help me organize articles on the tablet, and I came across Pulse News.

From online deal sites and gamification to digital marketing and online payments, these Internet companies are reaping all of the benefits with none of the brick and mortar overhead. Paul Hurley, CEO New York City No. 1 2010 Revenue: $77.7 million Three-Year Growth: 40,882% Founded in 2006 and based in New York City, ideeli has pioneered the idea of the flash deals site and is the Inc.

They're wide-eyed students interested in entrepreneurship, but they're eschewing incubators and sidestepping venture funding. What gives? Elizabeth Weber has been paving her own path to entrepreneurship for years

An intimate look at a group of elite Beijing high-school students reveals how China's schooling system is one of the resurgent nation's greatest strengths--and biggest weaknesses. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {border-bottom:2px;} During recess, students at the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University--like their counterparts across the nation--gather in the courtyard to do calisthenics.

Many entrepreneurs and leaders come and go without passing on what made them great. But there have been others who decided to pick up a pen, sit at a typewriter, or dictate into a recorder. While we have featured many business books this year in our Leadership Hall Of Fame , we have avoided biographies.