Charitable Giving in a Recession
A new report, based on the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy’s Individual Giving Model (IGM), estimates that individual charitable giving was down 4.9% percent in 2009. Read More »
Memories of Madrid
A recent trip to Madrid included a lecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid (which features, among other things, a dentistry school, at right). The best part was a short film that had been made before my arrival: a spoof in which an economics class at the university is taught freakonomics instead of economics (sorry, no translation available). Read More »
What's Harder: Science or Rapping?
Three interns at Intellectual Ventures have made a rap video. Read More »
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