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"World Wide Mind," the premiere episode of 22nd Century, a new PBS series, will air Wednesday, January 17, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. EST.

[7 p.m. CST on AETN in Arkansas.]

In the first episode, surgeons have implanted an electrode in an injured man's brain to allow him to communicate just by thinking about what he wants to say.

In another segment, a neurophysicist tells how he has developed bundles of wires thinner than spider webs that can be inserted into the blood vessels of human brains.

22nd Century is an innovative new PBS series about technological advances taking place today that within our lifetimes will significantly change the way humans live and interact.

http://www.pbs.org/22ndcentury/about.html


How to go to M.I.T. for free
Christian Science Monitor Jan. 4, 2007
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By the end of this year, the
contents of all 1,800 courses taught
at MIT will be available online to
anyone in the world. Learners won't
have to register for the classes,
and everyone is accepted. The
OpenCourseWare movement, begun at
MIT in 2002, has now spread to some
120 other universities...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p13s02-legn.html