Drones were everywhere at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas this year. No, not male honeybees or parasitic loafers, but unmanned aircraft remotely or programmatically controlled. More specifically, drones with cameras attached.
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Obama Was Right: Learning a Trade May Be a Better Path for Many
Whether you agree with the President on other matters, on this one issue, he was speaking an inarguable truth: skilled trades are careers worth considering.
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Interview: Susie Krabacher, Co-Founder and President of Mercy and Sharing, a Haitian Children’s Relief Organization
Mercy & Sharing is a foundation that feeds and gives hope to Haiti's abandoned children.
Read More »Classroom Environment Is a Key Element for Student Success
It is up to educators to brighten up their spaces and make them relevant to the subject matter they teach with the goal being to highlight student achievement and maximize their learning potential.
Read More »A Blueprint For an Innovation-Driven Society
Innovation is a fundamental cause of economic growth, but it also causes disruption, a nice word for failure and destruction of old industries and value chains. Societies need innovation to thrive, but they also fear its destructive power. Those which manage to strike a balance between the need to harness …
Read More »Oregon’s Ballot Measure 86: Shock Doctrine Comes as Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Measure 86 is proposing that the government of Oregon change its constitution to allow the state to go into debt to banks.
Read More »Columbus Day – Talking to Kids About the Explorer
We can see Columbus as either a daring explorer who set out like a 15th century Captain Kirk to go “where no man had gone before,” or we can see him as an inept navigator who grossly underestimated the size of the earth and the distance across the ocean.
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