In Kibera, a division of Nairobi, Kenya, girls there don’t have much of a shot at an education. Kenya is still very patriarchal, and if a family has both boys and girls, it’s the boys who will be granted the opportunity to attend secondary school. (Photos)
The race between Apple’s iOSand Google’s Android appears as if the open-source mobile operating system is a clear winner. However, a closer look reveals other levels of competition not so clearly defined.
Continue reading… “iOS vs Android: Apple still leads with apps and profits”
So far in 2013, Chicago homicides outnumbered slayings in the larger cities of New York and Los Angeles last year.
Chicago has drawn a lot of attention for the soaring gun violence and gang bloodshed, creating a political test for Mayor Rahm Emanuel in President Obama’s hometown. But a year later, Chicago has Chicago has witnessed a drop in shootings and crime. Killings this year have dipped to a level not seen since the early 1960s.
Continue reading… “Tactics by the city of Chicago have put a major dent in the killing trend”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Let’s first start off with a different question. “Who controls the bread supply in London?”
This was the opening question that Jonas Eliasson started with in his TED talk titled “How to solve traffic jams.”
Continue reading… “Who Controls the Education Industry?”
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Wearing a cloud computer like Google Glass on your face can be important for capturing moments in life from a first-person perspective. Now the WNBA, the female division of the National Basketball Association (NBA), has decided to deploy its own version first-person camera to referees for live games.
Continue reading… “WNBA referees debut live high-definition ‘Ref Cam’”
The concept plane designed by Airbus.
Although, it may not seem like the best way to fly, an aircraft with a lace-like structure is one of a range of radical ideas about how we may travel in the future.
Continue reading… “Visions of the future of flying at the TEDGlobal conference”
Dua’s layer, a new layer of the human cornea.
A new discovery to the human anatomy is just 15 microns thick, but it will make eye surgery safer and simpler. Harminder Dua, a professor at the University of Nottingham, recently found a new layer in the human cornea, and he’s calling it Dua’s layer.
Continue reading… “Scientists discover new human body part”
Raffaello D’Andrea, in a robot lab at TEDGlobal, demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D’Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together — and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.
Continue reading… “The astounding athletic power of quadcopters: Raffaello D’Andrea”
Handwashing is the most effective thing one can do to reduce the spread of infectious disease.
When consulting the CDC’s official guide to handwashing you might be surprised to learn that they don’t distinguish between using warm or cold water.They say what is important is that you use soap, that you scrub well (including the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails) for at least 20 seconds, and that you dry your hands afterwards. The CDC also officially recommends humming the “Happy Birthday” song twice through for an accurate measure of time.
Continue reading… “95% of people don’t wash their hands correctly: Study”
Buying objects rather than experiences tends to disappoint.
Over and over again, the idea that you can’t buy happiness has been exposed as a myth. Richer countries are happier than poor countries. Richer people within richer countries are happier, too. The evidence is unequivocal: Money makes you happy. You just have to know what to do with it.
Continue reading… “Why thinking about buying something makes us happier than buying it”
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We think of 3-D printers as desktop machines. But Silk Pavillion, a new, stunning piece of architecture by the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab brings all of those assumptions into question.
Continue reading… “Silk Pavillion: ‘3D printed’ structures created from silkworms”
For people who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, higher education is overwhelmingly a smart investment. But what about students who drop out? As it turns out, less than 60 percent of Americans actually complete a B.A. within six years of starting. Do they reap a benefit?
Continue reading… “Going to college is worth it even if you drop out”
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