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...both its public statements and actualized them in many agreements with industry. In one policy example, OTD co-authored a position paper entitled “In the Public Interest: Points to Consider in Drafting Technology Licenses” with colleagues at several of Harvard’s peer institutions of higher education. It is an exhortation directed at the critical role that universities must play in serving the world’s most vulnerable populations. OTD also helped to develop a master agreement amongst all Massachusetts research institutions relating to the management of jointly owned intellectual property (IP) that...
...knew that if I agreed with anything the Pope said it would cause a fire-storm,” said Green. “I took the opportunity to cause an uproar and focus on the evidence.” Citing several studies published in peer-reviewed journals since 2004, Green said that empirical data does not support the idea that condoms are successful in decreasing the spread of HIV. “The Pope may be right,” Green said. “The marketing and distribution of condoms won’t solve the problem. Partner...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister, Peer Steinbrück, have spent months saying they will never let irresponsible German banks off the hook by taking their toxic assets and putting them into some sort of government-backed bad bank...
...filtering point out that in some countries, including China and Thailand, it's used to block not only morally objectionable content but also those that are critical of the government. More to the point, many Internet providers say blacklists don't work anyway: most illegal activity online happens via peer-to-peer networking, which Web filters can't block. "It's almost trivial to get around the filters," says Wheeler. "But I can't tell you how, because the government has now made that illegal...
Christakis and his colleague James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, are now studying happiness contagion in perhaps the largest social network of all, Facebook. They noticed that people who smiled in their Facebook profile pictures tended to have other friends who smiled. This might simply be peer pressure at work, with members feeling obliged to flash a smile to fit in with the rest of the group, but Christakis and Fowler are investigating whether there isn't a more infectious phenomenon at work...