Study shows it’s okay to let children fail.
When Jessica Lahey was a fairly new teacher thirteen years ago she had to call a students’ mother to let her know that she would be initiating disciplinary measures against her daughter for plagiarism and that her daughter would receive a zero for the plagiarism.
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DARPA plans to pre-select the smartest recruits using newly available brain-scanning methods.
Long before Rin Tin Tin, dogs have been been an important part of military operations—from bomb-sniffing to supply-delivery. But training military working dogs is an expensive and time-consuming process. Anyone who’s spent any time trying to get a dog to even follow the “sit” command knows that some dogs are sharper than others.
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Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world.
The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. And the second reason is for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.
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The process of creating art can take less than an hour or go well into extra innings, extending across years as the artist returns to a work that isn’t complete. Da Vinci’s beguiling Mona Lisa was a work in progress when he died.
Raymond Alvarez: Professionals and students alike may wonder what interest an artist/writer has in learning Ruby on Rails. My quick answer is it can’t hurt. The real answer is coming to me.
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The State Grid Corporation of China is running the smart-grid project using passive optical networking technology.
Smart-grid technology testing has begun in China hat could eventually be deployed nationwide to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and efficient. It might also serve as a way to deliver high-speed Internet, TV, and telephony to the farthest reaches of the country.
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A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future.
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Pictured with Bigelow is a BA 330 module, similar in function to what the new Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be.
Robert Bigelow is a hotel ans aerospace entrepreneur, He got rich off budget hotel suites that start at $189 a week. Now they are funding his dream of building inflatable space habitats with rates topping $400,000 a day.
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Americans prefer the iPhone over Android.
Americans overwhelmingly prefer iPhone over Android while the rest of the world has overwhelmingly embraced Android. According to IDC, Android has a 75% market share in smartphones, versus 15% for Apple, worldwide. But in the U.S. the iPhone still rules. Sixty-three percent of smartphone sales at Verizon and 84% of smartphone sales at AT&T are the iPhone.
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Marc Andreessen
Alexia Tsotsis of Tech Crunch was doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” last year when she had the opportunity to interview Silicon veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed.
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The need for personalized therapies abound.
It is the dawn of a new age of personalized medicine. The interpretation of the human genome will transform medicine. We are moving into the data-driven medicine of tomorrow. Soon, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and most importantly, prevention will be tailored to individuals’ genetic and phenotypic information.
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When you hear the name Bluetooth, it brings back bad memories of the wireless cell phone earpiece that was more personal statement than practical tool. But Bluetooth has come of age. It has become the muse of several start-ups and established companies that are finding new and creative ways to take advantage of Bluetooth’s drastic uptick in efficiency, from the Nike Fuelband to the Pebble Smartwatch, which we previously featured on “This Could Be Big.”
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Smartphone apps are more advanced than what automakers are offering, so they are preferable.
Increasingly, drivers prefer using applications on their smartphones to the navigation systems that come installed in their cars.
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