YouTube users are now uploading three days’ worth of video to the site every second — a whole 24 hours more than the site had last year. To celebrate its 7th birthday, Google’s video-sharing site released all-new metrics about itself, including its new upload numbers as well as the fact that subscriptions increased 50 percent in the past year. Another cool fact? The site logs 3 billion hours of viewing time per month. Read full article > >

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Have you heard the joke about the Secret Service? The one in which President Obama told a ballroom full of reporters at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner that he had to leave early to get his security detail “home in time for their new curfew.” Read full article > >

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When Xu Wenli lived in China, the government deemed him a menace. A founder of a branch of the China Democracy Party and a leader in the 1979-1981 Democracy Wall movement, Xu served 16 years in prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Chinese government. Read full article > >

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Chen Guangcheng must weigh loss of prominence against protection of U.S. asylum

AMC’s “The Pitch,” which premieres Monday night, is a sharply-made if slightly off-putting reality series that follows different advertising agencies each week as they compete for new accounts. It’s a fight to the death over such brands as Subway’s breakfast items, Frangelico liqueur, air conditioners, a women’s clothing line and a luxe chain of Marriott hotels. Read full article > >

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More than two dozen Santa Monica College students were pepper-sprayed Tuesday night after they tried to enter a trustees meeting while chanting “Let us in” and “No cuts, no fees, education should be free.” Read full article > >

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T his is a story about Felicia Day. Right now, 30 percent-ish of you are squealing with besotted fan-girldom and fan-boydom. The other 70 percent of you do not know what a Felicia Day is. “That’s probably more like 90 percent,” she says. “Whenever I go to a meeting at a studio lot, it’s always the IT guy or the assistant or the accountant who knows me. And then the executives look at me, like, ‘I don’t know why I’m meeting with you.’ ” Read full article > >

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Felicia Day: A rising star for the Internet geek

As Bruce Springsteen rolls into our town for another long-awaited show at Verizon Center on Sunday night, a question rises from these dusty streets: A teleprompter, Bruce? Really? Well, yes. There it was the last time Bruce played Verizon and the time before that, too. Few of the many thousands of fans arrayed in front of and to the sides of the stage could see it, but for those looking down from on high behind the stage, it was plainly visible. As the band cranked up, a small monitor tucked discreetly at the Boss’s feet flickered to life, scrolling the words to some of his songs. Read full article > >

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Bruce Springsteen uses a teleprompter in performances: Does it matter?

At his best, when a crowd of hundreds of students extended their limbs before him or drew deep breaths with their eyes closed, John Friend could captivate minds and shape bodies. Students spoke of melting beneath his touch. In a gentle voice, he urged them to reach for something beyond the physical, something that extended past the poses they perfected on their yoga mats and embedded into their everyday lives. Read full article > >

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Two movies about to be released have given parents a fresh dilemma: Do they allow their children to watch them? “ Hunger Games ” opens tomorrow and “ Bully ” opens in D.C. next month. Both films bring their own sets of baggage and their own strong fan bases. They also beg the question of whether the target audience is ready for what is to be shown on screen. Read full article > >

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‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Bully’ create dilemma for parents

Outside the Pentacle apartment complex on Benning Road NE, the Friday morning air smells like springtime, weed and Newports. Fat Trel drags hard on his cigarette as if he’s sucking down a milkshake, then smiles, soaking up the sound of chirping birds and the laughter of his friends. Read full article > >

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Imagine you’re a high school biology teacher searching for the most vivid way to explain electrical activity in the brain. How about inserting metal wires into a cockroach’s severed leg and making that leg dance to music? Read full article > >

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TED offers free video lessons for high school and college students

However well-placed you may be now, times may come when you will have to know how to milk, cook, cut wood, wash clothes, act as a nurse, or even defend your own life. Many things which are now done for you will have to be done without any assistance from others. All these things you can learn as a Girl Scout. Read full article > >

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Girl Scouts’ 100th birthday: Charting a century of change in American girlhood

However well-placed you may be now, times may come when you will have to know how to milk, cook, cut wood, wash clothes, act as a nurse, or even defend your own life. Many things which are now done for you will have to be done without any assistance from others. All these things you can learn as a Girl Scout. Read full article > >

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On Thursday, Google launched its controversial new data-sharing plan (for example, it will use your YouTube habits to tailor search results). In advance, Google asked users to read its new privacy policy. Seems reasonable, right? But Google’s policy is also more than 2,200 words long. Alexis Madrigal points to research showing that if every Web site started doing this, we’d have little time for anything else: Read full article > >

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The first thing we learn on Tuesday’s “Dancing With the Stars” results show is that Justin Bieber clearly got the memo about the “DWTS” dress code. As the first performer of the night, the YouTube sensation-turned-teen idol is sporting a sparkly purple jacket with tons of sequins. Nicely done, Bieber. Read full article > >

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