learning
Are Animals People?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Image by Getty Images via Daylife
The disparity between experiments that suggest sophisticated cognition in animals and those that find hard limits to animal intelligence has created a debate over animal “personhood.”
The recent fatal attack of a SeaWorld trainer by the orca Tilikum has led to renewed questions about how humans should [...]
Vittana Applies The Kiva Model To Help Finance Education In Developing Countries
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Image via CrunchBase
The microfinance model has proved to be a valuable way to raise funds for entrepreneurs all over the country, as exemplified by the success of Kiva. Seattle-based Vittana is taking a similar approach to helping fund education in developing countries by allowing you to lend directly to students in [...]
Eye concept – a glimpse of Tesla’s future?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The all-electric Tesla Roadster is indeed a fine-looking, high-performance automobile,
but its projected $US109,000 price tag will likely put it out of reach of the much sought-after Generation Y demographic. Tesla’s less-pricey Model S four-door sedan is more of a refined, subtly-classy car – again, not something the fun-loving twenty-somethings will be flocking [...]
Tree seeds could provide low-cost water purification for developing nations
Monday, March 8th, 2010“In the developing world, more than 1 billion people cannot get clean drinking water…
The United Nations says that dirty water causes 80 percent of diseases in the developing world, and kills 10 million people annually.” Those sobering lines are from the United Nations’ website, and underscore just how urgently needed water [...]
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
Saturday, February 13th, 2010Image via Wikipedia
Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school
in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy teenagers break the monotony by teasing, texting, flirting, shouting, climbing (over seats) and sometimes punching (seats or seatmates).
But on this chilly morning, as bus No. 92 rolls down [...]
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