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#Workforce development, creating free #STEM education resources from Pre-K to PhD | Solving wicked problems with rapid #innovation | I have friends everywhere | Views: mine

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New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—it...

“New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.”

“Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out.”

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

01.03.2026 21:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Our joy is louder.”

The Dove #SuperBowlAd is one of my favorites. What a great message.

09.02.2026 00:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Peace and Love ❤️

01.02.2026 17:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Macy’s #Thanksgiving Parade hot takes: 🔥

🎵 Cynthia Erivo stole the show with her opening song

🦒 Kool & the Gang with the Bronx Zoo was so fun to watch

⁉️ Foreigner with the Stranger Things alien and dancing hazmat suits was…weird

🎤 I want Ken Jeong to introduce me every time I give a presentation

28.11.2025 02:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | An innovative approach to expanding health coverage is gaining steam A portable benefits program is the solution that meets the moment.

An innovative approach to expanding health coverage is gaining steam

A portable #benefits program is the solution that meets the moment.

The strategy: untether benefits such as health care & retirement from one employer or job by embracing portable benefits.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

25.11.2025 03:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What the S&P 500 is hiding about the economy A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains. Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States.

Economists and investors are raising concerns about the companies that aren’t part of the AI investment boom — in other words, most businesses in the United States.

24.11.2025 15:01 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 2

“…crashes can have a silver lining: they can take innovation into other sectors when leading scientists change jobs. Take, for instance the British bicycle crash of 1896.”

“Motorcycles, motorcars, the Wright brothers; all can trace their origins to the bicycle bubble.” — profjohnturner.bsky.social

23.11.2025 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“AI is not living up the promise of revolutionizing multiple sectors — nearly 80% of companies using #AI found it had had no significant impact on their earnings. These doubts over the technology’s utility and financial viability is leading analysts & investors to speculate that a crash is coming.”

23.11.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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If the AI bubble bursts, what will it mean for research? Nature - The rise in artificial-intelligence technologies is unprecedented, but some predict a stock-market crash that could have knock-on effects for funding and jobs.

After years of hype and ballooning investment, the boom in AI technology is beginning to show signs of strain

go.nature.com/4oQ2Maf

22.11.2025 13:18 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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You Must Read This Riveting Whistleblower Lawsuit About Allegedly Dangerous Robots A safety technician was fired as a company allegedly rushed ahead in commercializing a powerful humanoid robot with bone-crunching capabilities.

You Must Read This Riveting Whistleblower Lawsuit About Allegedly Dangerous #Robots

gizmodo.com/you-must-rea...

#AI

23.11.2025 13:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks

I have just finished and just published some weekend reading for you. 9,600 words of not easy reading, on why today's humanoid robots won't learn to be dexterous. rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-h...

27.09.2025 00:06 👍 60 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 9
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NASA Threw Virtually Everything It's Got at This Interstellar Visitor. Here's What It Captured Never-before-seen images of 3I/ATLAS capture the comet's ghostly beauty.

#NASA Threw Virtually Everything It’s Got at This Interstellar Visitor. Here’s What It Captured

Never-before-seen images of 3I/ATLAS capture the comet's ghostly beauty.

#31ATLAS #STEM

gizmodo.com/nasa-threw-v...

20.11.2025 00:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hypersonic breakthrough could enable planes that fly 10 times the speed of sound Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence behaves at extreme speeds, a critical hurdle for designing these aircraft. Their...

#Hypersonic breakthrough could enable planes that fly 10 times the speed of sound

A breakthrough in understanding hypersonic turbulence may open the door to one-hour global flights.

@sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy

#Science #Aviation #STEM

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

15.11.2025 02:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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STEM Education for the Next Generation - Society of Women Engineers Over the past decade, precollege education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, has expanded and developed dramatically. Instruction

"STEM education at the precollege level today...is an innovative, interdisciplinary, and student-centered approach to learning about the world. Its purpose is not better test scores, but better thinking — analytical, creative, and problem-solving." swe.org/magazine/ste...

16.10.2025 12:25 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The 4 next big things in robotics and automation for 2025 Robots that build solar farms, a drone that flies faster and lighter, a better food-delivery bot, and more.

Robots that build solar farms, a drone that flies faster and lighter, a better food-delivery bot, and more. f-st.co/Nrcpyy9

14.10.2025 15:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.

“Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the #Earth.”

“Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using ‘enhanced rock weathering’ to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.”

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

09.10.2025 00:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

01.10.2025 14:19 👍 30877 🔁 9714 💬 672 📌 514

This is one of my favorite reports of all time. A must-read for anyone in #STEM education. Currently working with community partners to implement the STEM charging station concepts recommended in this groundbreaking report. Stay tuned! #STEMstartsEarly

10.09.2025 00:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees.

It's all adding up.

09.09.2025 02:37 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
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Why younger generations are gaining interest in blue-collar work Tariffs, trade wars and technology have ushered in an age of uncertainty. Could blue-collar careers be a stable solution?

www.deseret.com/magazine/202...

09.09.2025 12:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Someone asked what's the 'most Gen X thing' ever and the responses were awesome "Hanging by the Blockbuster door to see if any good movies were returned."

www.upworthy.com/someone-aske...

06.09.2025 11:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025, in 3 panels.

05.09.2025 00:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Learning from catastrophe Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates.

“In his latest #book, Wicked Problems, Guru Madhavan argues that the growing number of cloudy #problems in our world demands a broader, more civic-minded approach to #engineering.” www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/26/1...

22.07.2024 12:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Keith Haring on Change and Creativity “To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence.”

Keith Haring on creativity and change www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/04/k...

23.08.2025 17:03 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

“State leaders — who are poised to wield more discretion as federal dollars devolve — should direct resources toward high-quality digital tools and educator training to better use proven public media offerings across Head Start, family child care, and pre-K settings” @cooneycenter.bsky.social

28.08.2025 03:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Future of Children’s Programming After Federal Cuts to Public Media The nation needs a strategy for children’s media that draws from the trusted legacy of public media and leverages today’s most promising tech tools.

How can we create a future that ensures all kids have access to high-quality children's media in light of funding cuts and a changing media landscape? Thanks to Michael H. Levine, Cooney Center founding executive director, for sharing his vision on @the74.bsky.social: buff.ly/gS85Zxi

15.08.2025 16:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Today’s proposed decision by HHS to limit the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine for children and teens is deeply troubling as we enter a new respiratory virus season. Read our full statement from Dr. Susan J. Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

27.08.2025 19:51 👍 96 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 3
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This new delivery robot will bring the entire grocery store to you Lockers on the go.

This new delivery robot will bring the entire grocery store to you

25.08.2025 16:10 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 11 📌 13
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Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri.

All aboard!

11.08.2025 23:59 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems The James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets capable of forming their own planetary systems — without a star.

"Lonely starless worlds."

09.08.2025 22:12 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0