We all should have guessed this would happen.
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What’s it 2U?
It was six months ago when I first mentioned a change in one of the MOOC (massive open online course) programs out there. The one started by MIT and Harvard that became edX. It had survived for nine years, adding courses from a slew of other prestigious institutions, with some 40 million registered users around the world.
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edX Update
I have always had mixed emotions about these massive open online classes (MOOC).
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Minimum Wage Pressure
This is a fun study. First, let’s talk about the two folks who performed this research. A husband and wife. Who like to visit restaurants. And, wanted to know whether a change in the minimum wage really does cause restaurants to close.
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A Star is Borne?
Many of my friends refuse to take daily medication. Mostly because they fear they won’t be compliant and remember to take the pills as required. They are not alone- about ½ of all those prescribed meds screw things up. (About 125K deaths a year could be avoided if those folks took their meds.)
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A RAID???? I think not…
I’ve often written how I was bound and determined to develop concepts for dialysis since I was a tyke. OK. Maybe not a tyke in the true definition (not that it’s all that clear how old a tyke may be), but by 8 years of age.
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Split Water, Add Carbon Dioxide, Get Energy
Alternative energy. We all know that means non-petroleum based sources. We’ve looked at solar panels, tidal power, algae, and wind. But, those are not really our only choices.
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New Life?
Some 40 years ago, we developed a strain of microbes that converted ammonia to nitrogenous gases. The goal was to find a way to augment a waste treatment system’s ability to purify the water. Oh, we found uses for it at many facilities. Not the least of which were seasonal facilities that handled poultry wastes. (These facilities ramped up to handle the demand for turkeys around Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the ambient temperatures were pretty low. That meant the normal capabilities of a system to biologically remove ammonia were greatly diminished.)
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A ‘chip’ off the old block?
Well, here’s another chapter in the sci v. scifi book. I wrote about Organovo and its artificial liver – not to replace a human’s organ, but to test various therapies and drugs. Now, here’s another researcher’s take on that issue.
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How much is that?
College tuition. OK. Breathe… Yes, it’s high- very high. It amazes me that the highest tuition in the land is to be found at a STATE university. When I was going to college – back before we were a free nation- you could bank on two things. State schools were cheap. State schools were easier to get into.
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