Deciding on a career, you want to be where the action is. But, more than that, you need to be where the action is and will continue to be. You know what you don’t want: Work hard to qualify for a job, work hard every day, work harder, work hardest, then pfftt!! lose the job […]
20 Best Entry-Level Jobs to Kickstart Your Career
What should you look for in an entry level job? The company is hiring you to be their employee, at a time in your life when you are full of promise and willing to work hard to prove yourself. But — in a way, you are also hiring them to be your boss. So think […]
A Dozen Great Retirement Careers (With Job Tips)
Do you look at your age and think, “But I don’t feel that old”? No surprise there. In 1950, life expectancy for Americans was 68.2 at birth; by 2003, it was 77.5. Not only are Americans living longer, but they living vigorously enough to continue to work longer. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) […]
The Mikrokopter
This mikrokopter is a helicopter with six blades on six arms sticking out from a central hub. Check out how it flies and how it works with a GPS: MikroKopter – HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo. If you have an interest in aviation, don’t miss this.
The 20 Best Paying Health-Care Careers Where You Don’t Need to Be a Doctor
No, you do not need to be a medical doctor to have a well-paying career in the health care field. These careers are booming for two reasons: The population is aging, and people want to live as long as they can in good health, and new health care technologies add considerably to their options and […]
Total Storage Capacity of Humanity — 295 Exabytes
Martin Hilbert and his colleague Priscilla Lopez have calculated how many bytes of data humans have accumulated to date, going back to ancient times and including the newest electronic storage devices: a grand total of 295 exabytes. Since there are 1,000 petabytes in an exabyte, and 1,000 terabytes in a petabyte, and 1,000 gigabyties in […]
Inflating the Price of Education
The above graph, linked to from inflationdata.com, shows how the rate at which higher education has been increasing in cost vastly outstrips the rate for everyday items. Many factors have unduly inflated the cost of higher education, not least the ready availability of government loans to fund education and thus subsidize, and even encourage, educational […]
Arabic — The Second Language of the Future?
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) is making grants to a handful of schools around the country to institute an Arabic language and culture curriculum at the middle school level. Arabic studies at these schools would be mandatory: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/…arabic-classes This is creating some controversy, but it raises an […]
10 Must-Have Products for the Savvy College Student
You’re off to school. You’re going to be facing many new challenges. What you don’t need is to be wasting lots of time and energy. You need to get things done quickly and efficiently. For that, you’ll need the assortment of products listed here. All of these products are electronic. We live in an electronic-digital […]
When Tiger Moms Collide
Amy Chua’s “Tiger Mom” method of child-rearing and education raises an intriguing possibility. Tiger Moms don’t just require hard work and excellent performance from their kids. They require that their kids be number one at all the things that the Tiger Moms regard as important (which, for Ms. Chua, left out sports and drama). Ms. […]