80% of the women say they love their work, yet many still report barriers to getting to the top.
Women in the U.S. who are working in the science, engineering, and tech fields are 45% more likely than their male peers to leave the industry within the year, according to recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation.
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Basic, deep-seated fluency in math and science—not just an “understanding,” is critical.
By Barbara Oakley: I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague. So it’s a little strange how I’ve ended up now—someone who dances daily with triple integrals, Fourier transforms, and that crown jewel of mathematics, Euler’s equation. It’s hard to believe I’ve flipped from a virtually congenital math-phobe to a professor of engineering.
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Digital resources are growing throughout libraries.
In libraries in the U.S. technology and digital resources are expanding rapidly, and important tech tools that serve entire communities are available at nearly all libraries across the nation.
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It’s a known fact that women are far less likely than men to get bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math(STEM). But what is the gender breakdown like in other fields?
Play-i robot
Like no other tool, robots can capture a child’s imagination by creating a fun, physical learning process. With robots, kids learn programming via interactive play by moving a robot in various sequences and using intuitive, visual programming on a computer screen. The children also learn STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) by watching and interacting with robots that demonstrate the practical results of the day’s lesson.
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Engineering majors in particular have the highest median earnings out of college.
According to a recent report from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (aka STEM) majors still have the best overall job prospects.
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If kids are learning math, they should also learn logic.
These days learn-to-code startups abound. There is one in particular that is focusing on the very young and is having some success in elementary schoolsaround the country — even under served schools with no budgets for STEM but a great need for better tools.
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First-time, full-time graduate enrollment in STEM programs registering a 50% increase over the decade.
A new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) finds that the number of Americans pursuing advanced degrees in science and engineering has risen sharply over the past decade and stands at an all-time high.
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Liver disease is the fifth largest cause of death.
Scientists have created liver cells in a lab for the first time using reprogrammed cells from human skin, paving the way for the potential development of new treatments for liver diseases that kill thousands each year.
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Your life in 2020
You will be healthier. Your technology will be more human. You will fight to keep your job. You will walk to work. There will be nowhere to hide. Your life is about to change. In 2020 we might just regain some of the humanity that was lost in 2010.
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The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself, but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using carbon dating to gauge the age of heart cells, scientists have found that low numbers of new heart cells are continuously being created throughout a person’s life. This raises the possibility that we may one day be able to use drugs to directly stimulate this regenerative capacity to patch up damaged hearts, rather than relying on cell-transplantation therapies.
Continue reading… “Study Shows The Human Heart Can Grow New Cells”
It may be small comfort to anyone sporting a comb-over, but researchers have found a second genetic risk factor for baldness.
Continue reading… “Finding Genetic Causes To Baldness Could Lead to New Therapies”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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