My daily selection of the most interesting news on the internets:
- Fall-off in venture capital hurting innovation, warns OECD – A dramatic decline in the availability of venture capital is stifling innovative start-up companies and damaging long-term growth prospects, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- Academic Earth – Video lectures from the world’s top scholars – Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.
- Education and technology: Supply, demand, and income inequality – US educational attainment growth has substantially slowed since the 1970s. This column explains how the educational slowdown caused much of the recent rise in economic inequality and concludes that the futures of inequality and the US depend on increasing the supply of highly educated workers.
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