Category: Life
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More education opens the gateway to better, higher-paying jobs
This recent article from The Atlantic summarizes a paper from the Hamilton Project. An individual with only a high school diploma is twice as likely to make less than $40,000 per year than someone with a college degree. An individual with a college degree is nearly nine times more likely to make over $100,000 than…
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Grad Student Wins Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge
"Scientists have long been criticized of their inability to communicate complex ideas adequately to the rest of society. Similar to his questions on PBS’ Scientific American Frontiers, actor Alan Alda wrote to the journal Science with a proposition called The Flame Challenge (PDF). Contestants would have to explain a flame to an eleven-year-old kid, and…
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The Decline of STEM Education in the U.S.
From Teach.com comes this infographic highlighting the decline of STEM interest in the US. “If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation, if you want to make a difference in the life of a child, become a teacher. Your country needs you.” – President Obama, 2011 State of the Union…
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Interest is Booming in Learning the Language of the Internet
To understand why I continue to push my school to include programming courses, read A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet, By JENNA WORTHAM on the NYTimes site. I am reposting the text, but the images and comments are much better read on their site than here. Parlez-vous Python? What about Rails or…