Our second post this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity focuses on Matt Miller’s critique of education in America from the January/February 2008 Atlantic Monthly: “First, kill all the school boards.” He writes that “local control has become a disaster for our schools” and that school districts are stunted by four key [...]
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From Wiimote to “wiiteboard”
2/12/2008
Johnny Chung Lee at Carnegie Mellon University created a couple innovative uses for the relatively cheap Nintendo Wii Remote. Most impressively, by combining a Wiimote, an LCD projector, and a little C# programming, he created a low-cost, multi-touch whiteboard system: More (including videos of other cool stuff you can do with your Wii) at his [...]
People’s Daily: China to build “artificial sun”
1/22/2006
The Poeple’s Daily reports that, A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province. The device will reportedly be built for USD 37 million — 15 times less than the ITER Tokamak project [...]
PC Advisor: Europe’s most innovative country
1/20/2006
PC Advisor‘s Peter Sayer writes that Malta might be Europe’s most innovative country if its proportion of high technology export revenue is taken into consideration: Malta, [...] a member of the EU since May 2004, derives a greater proportion of its export revenue from high technology than any other European country, according to figures from [...]
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