The benefits of a post-secondary education are now available online, for free. iTunes U, a lesser publicized web service gaining popularity, creates a space for professors from Yale, Stanford, Duke, and UC-Berkeley, to have their lectures or courses available in podcast form.

iTunes U not only opens up the pleasures of academia to the common m...

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Randy Pausch died of pancreatic cancer yesterday surrounded by family and friends in Virginia. He was only 47.

This video is his last lecture, entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream."

Upbeat, good-humored, and energetic, Pausch is hardly the image of a man on his deathbed.

After a year of fighting pancreatic cancer, Pausch was giv...

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