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Colbert on the End of Space Travel

April 12, 2010

Here’s a clip from Colbert’s piece on Obama announcing the end of the Constellation program, the thing that was supposed to take us back to the moon. You know, that place that we managed to go to 40 years ago before iPads or cellphones or the internet. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / [...]

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More (Steve) Jobs and Ambitions to Become a Disney Animatronic

January 27, 2010

Obama should launch his own moon shot. What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, but more stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make 2010 what Obama should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the [...]

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Nickelodeon Aims to Teach Preschoolers Math

January 12, 2010

“Everybody’s trying to teach preschoolers how to read and nobody is trying to teach them how to do math”… In some ways the new program is standard children’s fare. The main characters are miniature superheroes — a boy, a girl and a break-dancing robot — who zoom about fixing simple crises in their city, whether [...]

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Technology Review: The Year in Robotics

January 9, 2010

In the past year, researchers have developed new robots to tackle a variety of tasks: helping with medical rehabilitation, aiding military maneuvers, mimicking social skills, and grasping the unknown. via Technology Review: The Year in Robotics.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Fighting Robots as Sport [Article]

January 6, 2010

The construction and competition of combat robots is a hobby for all but a select few builders. Robots builders may be middle-aged engineers, or enthusiastic teenagers. Robot building can teach young people a great deal about technology, and some schools use the construction of combat robots in their courses. via Everything You Wanted to Know [...]

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Paul Cottle: Being ‘last in the nation’ won’t spark innovation [Article]

December 14, 2009

“Florida students are pretty much last in the nation for science.” …only 16 percent of Florida’s high-school graduates take physics, about half the national rate. via Paul Cottle: Being ‘last in the nation’ won’t spark innovation | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat.

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