The following is a guest post by Alex Hodson. It’s easy to forget how fast technology has progressed in the last decade and how technology has influenced our way of living today. It has been an inspiring and prosperous decade when you consider the sheer amount of human innovation. This list looks back at some […]
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1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. 1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity. 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a
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Sick of messy yogurt containers in her lunchbox, Madison Alexander decided it was time for a new option. Her idea is to make yogurt containers edible, and it has grabbed the attention of a kids TV show. With her parents’ full support, Madison registered her idea on the Let’s Get Inventin’ website in March last
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Summer camps aren’t just for archery and basket weaving anymore. The newest camps are borrowing from the latest television shows and replacing swimming and capture the flag with crime solving. The Wall Street Journal has more: On a summer morning in southern New Jersey, a team of crime-scene investigators gathered around a body lying face-down
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Fast Company: More than 275 million hearing-impaired people are unable to use speech to communicate. Sign language is one solution, but it’s only as helpful as the number of people who know the language. That problem is what drove three Ukrainian students to develop EnableTalk, a pair of sensory gloves that help bridge that communication
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Inspired by his time at school, Ryan Stevens put his business degree to work. He set up a website that allows students to sell their notes and study materials, as well as communicate with classmates within the community reports the Los Angeles Times. The site, NoteUtopia.com, which was launched in August, is intended to function
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PMW: What makes FamousScientists.org better than other portals is its huge collection of more than 120 in-depth and high-quality articles about the lives and biographies of famous scientists and inventors from around the world, and also their pictures. The site contains a science blog as well, focusing on the latest science and technology news and
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CNN: Schools worldwide book him to put a stop to bullying. One Minnesota community promised him $20,000 to get him to come to town for two weeks last fall. He calls himself The Scary Guy, and his price tag can run as much as $6,500 a day. The Scary Guy is his legal name —
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WSJ: You come up with a great idea. You take it to market. It flops. Oh, well—hit reset and try again. “In general, people don’t learn about complex issues by being told, they learn by actively participating in the process,” says John Sterman, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Mass.
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People love to listen to music on the go. Whether they’re jogging, suffering through a long commute, or walking around a school campus. However, where do their earbuds go when they are done using them? Mark Williams has created a simple solution to a problem that has existed since the iPod was invented. He’s created
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