Rumi Nations

It's interesting to look at the Coursera communities around the world. Here are the   Top 10 cities on the list . They are: 1) Stanford, 2) New York, 3) London, 4) Bangalore, 5) San Francisco, 6) Moscow, 7) Athens, 8) Toronto, 9) Washington, DC, 10) Mumbai. What to make of this list? No wonder four American cities are in the list. Multi-cultural London is there. A bit odd to see Moscow there but not Beijing or Shanghai or Hong Kong. Good to see Bangalore (or is it Bangaluru?) and Mumbai (and not Bombay!) on the list. Athens is probably the biggest 'surprise' presence here. The next are: 11) to 15): Kyyiv, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Barcelona, Sao Paulo; 16) to 20): Hong Kong, Delhi, Singapore, Los Angeles, Boston, and Madrid. The next 11 are: St. Petersburg, Seattle, Melbourne, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Sydney, Paris, Philadelphia, Beijing, and Bogota.

The annual question from Edge.org: what should we be worried about? A remarkable essay by Eugene Wigner on the The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences . A look back at Aaron Schwartz's life in The New Yorker . Here's the detailed story of the discovery of the Higgs boson in The New York Times by the renowned science writer Dennis Overbye . You can't miss this  Esquire  interview with the Navy SEAL who actually shot bin Laden . This is a  fascinating article  about the future by Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Articles about the Iraq war in the New Yorker . Engines of our Ingenuity —    a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. Jonah Lehrer articles from the New Yorker . Jonah Lehrer article about memory in Wired . An article about the human urge for exploration from the National Geographic . Are you living in a computer simulation?