Drone pilots
Researchers with the Defense Department have found in a first of its kind study that pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft who are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Not all Ph.D. students want a career as a tenured college professor. There are many fields, such as humanities, that spending your life buried in books and papers is the gold standard of success. Data from the National Science Foundation has been broken down on the job market for doctorate holders and we take a look at just what fraction of new graduates were landing jobs in the academy.
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MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D desktop printer.
It may only be in its infancy, but a new startup has already found a way to disrupt the 3D printing industry. Makexyz is a 3D printing service with a brilliantly simple premise: Link the 3D printer owners of the world with the designers that need them. It’s like Airbnb or Wheelz, but for 3D printers.
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What do startups like Groupon, Twitter, Living Social, and Guitar Hero all have in common? They are all fast-growing startups that built their business on Ruby on Rails. Rails is the best way for beginners to learn how to build their own web applications and it comes with all the advantages of power, agility, and robustness of these top websites.
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Dolphins are the only other living beings on the planet to assign such specific monikers to known family members and associates.
One of the defining characteristics of human intelligence is language. We like to think that the complexity of our social interactions is one of the things that makes humans unique, but we do know that other animals do communicate with each other. Dolphins are one of the other smartest species on Earth, and new research suggests they may have language skills that are a lot more complex than we thought, as they’ve demonstrated their ability to call each other by individual names.
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Military tops the list of most stressful jobs.
There are many jobs require constant physical activity, or place people in danger if they aren’t able to act quickly on their feet. CareerCast, has compiled a list of the most stressful and least stressful occupations for this year. Military occupations are on the top of its list for the most stressful jobs.
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Google is the leader in the arena of autonomous vehicles(AVs).
Driverless cars are coming much sooner than you think. Cars that drive themselves are set to transform the way society gets from point A to point B.
Continue reading… “Top 5 reasons driverless cars are inevitable”
Total video views among internet users in the US were up 23% year over year in Q4 2012.
The appetite of U.S. online video viewers appears far from satisfied. Research from video monetization firm FreeWheel shows that the total video views among internet users in the US were up 23% year over year in Q4 2012. That growth has paralleled an increase in video ad volume, which grew 47% over the same time period, according to FreeWheel. (FreeWheel’s data covers only rights-managed videos, and does not include user-generated content.)
Continue reading… “More ads, higher completion rates on longer online videos”
The Great Recession and the weak recovery darkened the retirement picture for significant numbers of Americans.
A majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents for the first time since the New Deal. This jeopardizes a long era of improved living standards for the nation’s elderly, according to a growing consensus of new research.
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Is there a direct connection between having happy workers and improved profitability?
A new addition of the “100 Best Companies To Work For” is released every year around this time. In this report employers deemed to have the happiest and most satisfied workers are heartily celebrated by the media.
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The Jetstream mission is part of a project to develop the technologies and procedures that will allow large commercial aircraft to operate routinely and safely without pilots.
A twin-engined Jetstream will take off from Warton Aerodrome in Lancashire, England, and head north towards Scotland within the next few weeks. Like any other flight, the small commuter airliner will respond to instructions from air-traffic controllers, navigate a path and take care to avoid other aircraft. But the pilot flying the aircraft will not be in the cockpit: he will have his feet firmly on the ground in a control room back at Warton.
Continue reading… “Pilotless aircraft could be flying before cars go driverless”
“7 little freedom fighters sleeeping in the bed. One fell off and shot another in the head,
roll over, roll over! 6 little freedom fighters…”
Quote of the Day: “Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.” – Franklin P. Jones
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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