Last year student debt exceeded the $1 trillion mark, surpassing credit card debt. On average, a student graduates with over $25,000 in debt and 17.3% are expected to default on their federal loans. The general public has been clamoring for a solution to the student debt problem and rightfully so. President Obama’s 2014 Budget proposal ...
Reading the news is a habit that has to be formed—and it’s an important one. The earlier you start paying attention, the better. It’s like Jenny’s (played by Carey Mulligan) speech from the 2009 film “An Education” “It’s not enough to educate us, Ms. Walters, you’ve got to tell us why you’re doing it.” Jenny ...
The University of Wisconsin-Superior has issued a statement in defense and support of its “Un-Fair” campaign, a series of local advertisements designed to raise public understanding of white privilege and ward off misconceptions regarding the nature of racism despite mounting criticism from conservative bloggers and pundits. The campaign, which has the mission statement of aiming to ...
With the massive amounts of information available nowadays, it’s not hard to find yourself overwhelmed. I’ve begun calling this overwhelming feeling “overly clicky”. I use it to describe that moment, generally early in the morning on weekdays, when I turn on my PC, grab a cup of coffee, sit down and start furiously clicking through ...
Have you ever wondered how scientists are able to determine the density of objects and atmospheres in space? Or have you ever been curious about how an x-ray can take photos of your bones through your skin? The answer to both of these questions is something termed, reflection spectroscopy. Spectroscopy can obviously accomplish many things ...
Good news for acne sufferers and students of health science alike: scientists from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Pittsburgh found 11 forms of a naturally-made virus known as a phage, which exists to specifically target the bacteria which causes acne in humans, called Propionibacterium acnes. This virus is now being ...
The most powerful and highest resolution camera ever built has begun a five-year survey of 300 million galaxies, 100,000 galaxy clusters, and 4,000 supernovae in an effort to better understand dark energy, the little-understood force that is one of greatest mysteries of modern physics. This massive machine is called the Dark Energy Camera or DECam, and ...
Of the 47% of us that pay no income tax, Mitt Romney has stated: “My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Last night, the independent news blog, Mother Jones leaked an excruciating video of Mitt Romney addressing a private ...
New genetic discovery could have major implications for those studying the field of forensics. A research team lead by Manfred Kayser of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam has identified five genes that determine facial structure, a discovery that could aid scientists and medical doctors in understanding facial deformities and may even find use ...
Principal Thomas Amons of the Beaumont Independent School District’s (BISD) Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas has closed an adult cosmetology program after seeing a student that Amons thought “looked gay,” according to the course’s instructor. The cosmetology program, which has existed for over 10 years, was taught by Cequada Clark, who told Texas’ newspaper ...
Google hopes to empower regular people with the ability to share their expertise with the world. After this week’s announcement of Class2Go, a fully online educational service offered by Stanford University, Google has unveiled their own educational platform: Google Course Builder. Unlike Class2Go or EdX, which is operated by Harvard, MIT, and the University of ...
Is Apple still innovating, or just trying to maintain relevance? I’m not the world’s biggest Apple fan. Believe me, I was definitely impressed by the iPhone when it first came out, as it truly was the revolutionary piece of technology that every techie had hitherto been dreaming would someday exist. The idea of an iPod, ...
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