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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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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...
Opinion | An innovative approach to expanding health coverage is gaining steam
A portable benefits program is the solution that meets the moment.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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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.
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.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“…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
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“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.”
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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After years of hype and ballooning investment, the boom in AI technology is beginning to show signs of strain

go.nature.com/4oQ2Maf
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.
go.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You Must Read This Riveting Whistleblower Lawsuit About Allegedly Dangerous #Robots

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#AI
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.
gizmodo.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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...
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks
rodneybrooks.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#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

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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.
gizmodo.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
#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...
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...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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"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...
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
swe.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Robots that build solar farms, a drone that flies faster and lighter, a better food-delivery bot, and more. f-st.co/Nrcpyy9
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.
f-st.co
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“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...
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
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
Throwback Thursday! In this 2017 Cooney Center report, we collaborated with @newamerica.org to explore the challenges and opportunities in early childhood STEM education. What's the same? What's changed? Read the full report: joanganzcooneycenter.org/publication/...
#stem #ece
September 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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2025, in 3 panels.
September 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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“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...
Learning from catastrophe
Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates.
www.technologyreview.com
July 22, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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Keith Haring on creativity and change www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/04/k...
Keith Haring on Change and Creativity
“To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence.”
www.themarginalian.org
August 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“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
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
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.
buff.ly
August 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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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
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.
buff.ly
August 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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...
August 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This new delivery robot will bring the entire grocery store to you
This new delivery robot will bring the entire grocery store to you
Lockers on the go.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM