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President Barack Obama , like his predecessors, has made improving science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, education a priority.
On Monday, he announced a new initiative of his administration called "Educate to Innovate" meant to raise the performance of U.S. students in these areas where they have been lagging behind other nations.
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Tuesday 24 November, 2009 07:17 AM |
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RAF fighter pilot Andy Green intends to get behind the wheel of a car that is capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the Bloodhound car will mount an assault on the land speed record.
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Thursday 5 November, 2009 03:25 PM |
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A day or two ago I happened across the online announcement of a wonderful new technological device that made me think, “That’s it. We’re finally in the future.” And then, almost as if the words were spoken aloud, I heard the voice of my friend (and excellent Science Fiction author) Chris Roberson in my head, scolding me with his oft-repeated, always cranky, litany: “It’s not the future until we have jetpacks and flying cars. They promised us jetpacks and flying cars! Where are they?” And I realized there’s no escaping this question, either from Chris or any of a myriad other sources. The future isn’t allowed to be here until we have our jetpacks and flying cars. And that’s just the minimum. Space stations, moon cities and personal household robots are also to be desired for a fully functioning future.
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Monday 26 October, 2009 10:29 AM |
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Robert Stephenson helped his father, George, design and build the most famous early railway locomotive the "Rocket" in 1829.
Born 16th October 1803 and died 12th October 1859. The 12th October 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of his death
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Tuesday 13 October, 2009 08:08 PM |
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Chris Rasch is attempting to build a temporary island out of an unremarkable pile of plywood, rope, and empty barrels that once held 50 gallons of maraschino cherries each.
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Monday 12 October, 2009 08:32 AM |
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The war-torn villages of northern Uganda are a world away from the Bucknell University campus. But a student group saw an opportunity to address poverty there.
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Wednesday 30 September, 2009 05:24 PM |
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Taiwan's theme parks are gaining popularity as a tourist attraction through constant upgrading and active marketing.
If one opens this door and says the name of the place he or she wishes to go, they will be transported there as they pass through. The dokodemo door, literally the "anywhere" door, is one of the most common gadgets the popular cartoon character Doraemon takes out from his "fourth-dimensional pocket." That, together with a time machine and moshimo-box, a telephone booth device where the characters dial a number and propose a "what if" scenario that alters the world, all make their appearance in the Doraemon Story House at Window on China, one of Taiwan's leading theme parks.
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Wednesday 30 September, 2009 01:22 PM |
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After Jerry Tester lost his job as a contract engineer at General Motors , it soon became clear that the struggling auto industry wouldn't be the place where he would work again.
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Sunday 27 September, 2009 02:09 PM |
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Werner Breitschwerdt was a boy of 12 in Stuttgart when the Second World War broke out. He survived it and went on to become one of those who made a major impact in Germany's "economic miracle."
Breitschwerdt, now 82, visited Toronto recently on his way home from wintering in Florida, and spent some time talking about Mercedes' post-war rebirth.
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Sunday 27 September, 2009 08:05 AM |
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Saturday was already warm before Piapot’s Dale Friesen literally fired up his Sawyer-Massey steam-powered tractor.
Standing next to the pressurized boiler filled with 177 C water during this weekend’s Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum threshing bee turned a warm day into a sweltering one.
However, people still gathered around his 1900 tractor, which runs perfectly, to witness this antique engineering success in action.
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Sunday 20 September, 2009 12:44 PM |
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Researchers are one step closer to creating a micro-aircraft that flies with the manoeuvrability and energy efficiency of an insect after decoding the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight.
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Sunday 20 September, 2009 08:29 AM |
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In this electronic age , new writing technologies seem to proliferate and evolve with alarming speed -- but of course, people have been coming up with new ways to communicate their thoughts for as long as language has existed at all. Writing itself -- writes Dennis Barron -- was once the object of much suspicion; Plato wrote that it could attenuate human memory, since writing things down would obviate the need to memorize them. In his new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), Barron looks at the history of writing implements and communication technologies, and explores the digital revolution's impact on how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another.
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Friday 18 September, 2009 12:47 PM |
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It is one that started nine years ago with a failure that threatened to derail the career of Dadi Perlmutter, the very same Intel executive who has been just been promoted to managing product development for all processors. Indeed, he has now seen as a leading contender for chief executive, once Paul Otellini steps down.
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Thursday 17 September, 2009 12:51 PM |
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009, marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Isambard Kingdom Brunel - the genius engineer responsible for building the Great Western Railway ... and much more. A month later, on 12 October, it will be 150th anniversary of the death of another engineering genius, Robert Stephenson, who built the London and Birmingham Railway - the first main line railway to reach London - and much more, too. Special events are planned to mark these anniversaries.
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Wednesday 16 September, 2009 11:40 AM |
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Madhavan Nair, chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation , takes stock of Chandrayaan-1’s sudden end and tells Forbes India, there is no plan for a manned moon mission as of now
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Monday 14 September, 2009 05:33 PM |
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A macho culture of managers working long-hours and sexual harassment on sites is discouraging women from taking the top jobs in construction.
Dr Jacqueline Watts of the Open University interviewed 26 women in the UK who were or had once been in construction management. All said they were unhappy with either the struggle to balance their family and work lives or the sexist attitudes they experienced on site.
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Monday 14 September, 2009 08:37 AM |
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FISHER/UNITECH announced today the launch of its second installment of No
Engineer Left Behind, a virtual job fair for engineers. FISHER/UNITECH, a
software reseller with ten locations throughout the Midwest, has collaborated
with 6Connex to make over 800 jobs available leveraging the 6Connex Virtual
Experience Platform. The virtual job fair can be accessed at
http://funtech.veplatform.com and will be online through November 30th, 2009.
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Thursday 10 September, 2009 03:43 PM |
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Everything is done the same way as it was done back then. When you study the original watch, you realize that so much has been forgotten about that time, that you really have to relearn... there are many things to discover [from the past] that is not being done in the normal watch-making today," James Cooke, Montres Breguet S.A. technical assistance manager, told BusinessWorld.
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Monday 7 September, 2009 03:36 PM |
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When Ian Bruce picked up a voicemail instructing him to call the Governor General's office for an important message, his first thought was to simply press delete.
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Friday 28 August, 2009 03:39 PM |
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One of the 21st century's biggest and most ambitious science ventures, the Square Kilometre Array, is expected to revolutionise our understanding of the universe, providing answers to key questions about fundamental physics and a range of astrophysical mysteries, from black holes and dark matter to life on other planets.
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