Billionaire Larry Ellison has a new plan for the Hawaii island he bought, but needs everyone’s help to make it happen.

He announced in a news release Tuesday that Lanai will host an international documentary film festival that aims to spark conversations for worldwide change by empowering the individual.

Tonight on PBS, I am joined by Clay Risen, an editor for The New York Times op-ed section and an acclaimed author. Risen discusses his new text, The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act, in which he unfolds the historic battle, waged from the streets of the deep South to the halls of Congress, to bring the revolutionary Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

In the following clip, Risen explains how President Lyndon Johnson used the assassination of John F. Kennedy to galvanize the country and Congress around civil rights.

Google Glass, not the only, but certainly the most popular of the all the wearable headwear technologies available today, has become a lightning rod for the battle of how the next generation of computing power will be used.

As if you needed another reason to hate selfies, or the Boston Red Sox, The Boston Globe and ABC News are both reporting that this great and seemingly spontaneous selfie between President Obama and slugger David Ortiz is a fake.

When people tell stories rooted in fantasy, they're called fairy tales. Such was the case last fall when Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke at an anti-poverty forum at the Heritage Foundation. His remarks spun a mythical tale of our nation's past, when kind, hard-working men and women helped their neighbors and didn't need the big, bad government. According to Sen. Lee, a free-market economy and a volunteer society were all we needed to thrive.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) surely are causing quite a stir. That is what happens when non-teachers try to impose their wills upon the American classroom.

Co-authored by Doris C. Rusch, PhD, Assistant Professor for Game Design, and Anuradha Rana, MFA, MA, Instructor in Digital Cinema at DePaul University

Interdisciplinary research is all the rage in higher education. Faculty members are encouraged to conduct research with interdisciplinary teams. These interdisciplinary teams and the research that comes from them are thought to solve societal problems more effectively than if the studies were conducted from one disciplinary focus or "silo."

Hello, Friends,

My name is Hwansan Sunim and I am the disciple and personal attendant of Son Master Songdam, the most venerated Buddhist master in Korea. A couple of years ago Son Master Songdam asked me to share the teachings of traditional Korean Son Buddhism with a modern, international audience.

He said to me, "If the Buddha were to appear today, I think he would go to the United States or Europe to begin spreading the Dharma. I believe modern people are ready to learn and practice these teachings."

So let's start from the beginning: What is Son meditation? What is its purpose and what benefits does it provide?

After various Internet camps circled their wagons in response to the #CancelColbert campaign, everyone's favorite incisive pundit himself called upon people during Monday night's show to stop the pointed racist and misogynistic comments. And for good reason.

Young Americans have gotten a fair share of criticism in recent decades. College students in particular -- and those leaving college to enter the work force -- have been described as self-absorbed and entitled, grandiose in their sense of their own importance. For the harshest critics, it's a generation of narcissistic brats.

What could possibly top the cuteness of watching "Kids React" to viral videos? CATS!

For April Fool's Day this year The Fine Brothers released this purrfect prank with a series of cats reacting to viral videos of... well, cats. Awwww, adorable.

Click play above to watch the very meta, furry and feline amusement unfold.

The mood in my home was unusually calm last night; could there be an upside to THE TEST?

Testing season has begun. This year, April Fools' Day marked the first of three days of English Language Arts (ELA) testing for NYC public school children in Grades 3-8. Each day, the students, my 4th grader included, will sit for 70 minutes of questions: multiple choice, short answer and extended written responses. This will be followed by 210 more minutes of Math testing over three days at the end of the month. That is seven total hours of tests for kids as young as eight years old.

Brendan Eich, Mozilla's newly-appointed CEO, sparked the ire of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates last week after news of his donation to an anti-gay marriage campaign in 2008 came to light.