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The Grammy Awards broadcast (Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on CBS) is arguably the largest musical event of the year, featuring live performances from some of the biggest names in music. What you may not realize while you’re watching the event at home Sunday evening is that each one of the 21 live performances during this year’s show were only rehearsed with the live crew just a few times.

Interview with Lena Dunham. She wrote and directed the independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), and is the creator and star of the HBO series Girls. In 2012, she was nominated for four Emmy Awards and won two Golden Globe Awardsfor Girls.

Hundreds of mourners gathered on Capitol Hill Monday to celebrate the life of Internet activist Aaron Swartz and to advocate changes to federal anti-hacking law. Swartz took his own life last month after fighting federal hacking charges for two years. In the fall of 2010, he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR from a library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Swartz had legal access to the articles, but his mass download violated the database terms of service agreement. Prosecutors refused to accept any plea deal that did not include jail time and a felony conviction, even though JSTOR had opposed criminal prosecution.

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A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a lower cost via the Internet. New York Times has the story:

Here's a nice convenience for students. I'll be interested to see how it works out:

Good Luck Students

Former SJSU Professor, Dr. Bob Gliner is an amazing amazing documentary film maker, in addition to being a brilliant sociologist. His new film Schools That Change Communities will screen on KQED+Plus these days: Friday, Jan 4, 1 AM; Saturday, Jan 5, 3 PM; Tuesday, January 8, 11 PM and Wed. Jan. 9, 5 AM. View the trailer here. (Thank you for the info, Dr. Maria Ochoa):