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Committee members also discussed the need for more creativity in teaching math to children. Nat Stahl—representing the nonprofit math education organization, The Math Project—emphasized the need for math “to be a discussion of ideas rather than development of skills...
...sideline Microsoft's lumbering desktop software suite. To that end, Picnik will bolster Google's launch of its new Web-oriented Chrome operating system later this year. "The consumer market is evolving into a model where every useful or interesting application starts with a login to the cloud," says Nat Burgess, president of the Corum Group, an M&A advisory firm, and a member of Picnik's advisory board. (See pictures of China mourning the potential loss of Google...
During the event, the Shorenstein Center also awarded the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Nat Hentoff, a historian and former syndicated columnist...
...early '30s he was making $1,000 a week at the country stuff, but in the bustling Chicago music scene, there was so much more to hear and play. In the morning he was hillbilly, and at night he was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with...
...some flashy gigs - like a Jazz at the Philharmonic session with Nat Cole on piano and Illinois Jacquet on sax - but spent more time on electronic experimentation. He built a new guitar out of Epiphone parts and called it the Log. He used it in his recordings for the next decade. After assembling a recording studio in his garage (total cost: $415), he produced such performers as Gene Austin, the Andrews Sisters and his pal and patron Bing Crosby. His work with White, Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, as well as some Les Paul Trio sides, can be found...