Just getting a job in this economy is difficult enough. Getting one with a liberal arts degree is simply masochistic. Don’t spend half a decade and thousands of dollars only to join the rest of the English majors busking in a subway. Instead, educate yourself with these valuable, respectable, and totally free online resources.* More »
As a teacher, what you do with your time and your iPhone camera and your body outside of school are your own business. But if you do happen to take sexxxy pictures of yourself at home, it may not be the best idea to upload them to iCloud. Why not, you ask. Because if you do, four of your students will borrow the school iPad associated with your iCloud account, open up iPhoto, and be scarred for life at having been exposed to your grownup boobs. More »
Featuring four towering limestone columns and classic Flemish-bond brickwork, the century-old Mackay School of Mines Building at the University of Nevada, Reno, has long served as a bastion of Silver State history. Named after Irish immigrant and “Comstock Lode King” John Mackay, notable touches such as a cast bronze statue designed by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum just outside the building helped it earn a spot in the National Register of Historic Places. Within its oak doors, however, are the makings of an intriguing experiment that’s decidedly more new school. Like a mini museum, a collection of 3D-printed models are displayed within the building’s sunlit, three-story atrium — attracting a mix of students and teachers. Even more popular than the displays of plastic gears and molecule models, however, are the two 3D printers that made them: a professional-grade Stratasys uPrint SE Plus and a hobbyist 3DTouch machine.
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On a freezing, cloudless day last January in New York, Apple presented to the world its vision for the future of education. It was a clear-eyed argument for bringing tablets into classrooms, a blueprint for fusing cutting-edge technology with advanced learning techniques. More »
Biologists from the University of Singapore
have discovered that a certain Chinese soft-shelled turtle, well-adapted
to living at the bottom of brackish (salty) muddy swamps, coming to the
surface to breathe the air, would immerse their heads in puddles when
their swamps dry up. To you and I, such an observation might not cause
even the slightest curiosity, but to Y. K. Ip and his team, it was curiosity that led them to discover a truly unique animal – a turtle that pees through its mouth.
The last time CERN and an angry bird met, it didn’t end so well: the Large Hadron Collider overheated after a feathered creature reportedly dropped its breakfast on outdoor machinery. Things should go much more smoothly this time around, with CERN and Rovio partnering on an educational initiative that will be unveiled in full at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 12th. Although the two are shy on just what’s entailed beyond the presence of some Angry Birds material at the event, the union will mark the start of Rovio’s learning brand and likely represent more in the long run than another Angry Birds Space tie-in. We’re mostly wondering if subatomic physics research will explain why we still can’t three-star some levels in a physics-based game.
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Many international universities are fostering students’ natural
curiosity and ingenuity to create new products to help their fellow
citizens. Such is the case at HCM City University of Transport where, as
the name implies, Vietnamese students focus on developing new,
efficient forms of transportation. Recently, they revealed prototypes of
the students’ solar-run scooter and a new battery-operated wheelchair
that can be produced at a much lower cost that those produced in western
countries.
Google has been taking advantage of its sheer domination of search to act as a custodian for human culture, whether it’s famous artwork or wonders of the world. The most direct example of this archival impulse may have arrived today through the launch of historical exhibitions at the (virtual-only) Google Cultural Institute. Starting with 42 exhibitions, the project delves into major historical events with both a guided, mixed-media tour as well as the kind of free-form exploration you’d expect from Google, such as hunting down a specific person, place or time range. The focus helps Google tell both textbook-level history as well as private stories. Though small at present, the collection is taking further submissions that could lead to a much broader internet resource for learning — an expansion that we can’t help but embrace.
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A nation-wide study of more than 1100 pre-school children up to 5 years of age in Australia
indicates that 20 percent of children are obese even before they enter
school. Particular habits formed at home were identified as leading
causes of a condition that is both physically and socially deleterious
to kids and can continue all their lives – obesity….
Developed by researchers at Gifu University in Japan, this new medical teaching tool projects a virtual anatomical model onto a featureless mannequin letting students study the brain and nervous system. And while it’s less creepy than cutting open an actual body, it’s certain to fuel a few terrible nightmares. More »
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