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“Big science is in competition for government funds, not only with manned space flight, and with various programs of real science, but also with many other things that we need government to do. We don’t spend enough on education to make becoming a teacher an attractive career choice for our best college graduates.”

“There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?”

“There’s a lot of green in green. This infographic shows just how much money is falling through the cracks, and how much we’re spending to keep it underground.”

“Kraftwerk at MOMA: the band’s exploration of the relation between man and machine underlies much of what you hear on the radio today. “

“The wealthiest Americans believe they’ve earned their money through hard work and innovation, and that they’re the most productive members of society. For the most part they’re wrong. As the facts below will show, they’re not nearly as productive as middle-class workers. Yet they’ve taken almost all the new income over the past 30 years.”

“Taxpayers bail out Wall Street and Detroit. But there’s no help, or Springsteen anthem, for struggling creatives”

“But the system had intrinsic value, he said, because it would provide an evidence-based measure of the performance of European universities, which would help them improve. “

“Los tres estudiantes de la Universidad de Filipinas-Diliman han resultado ganadores en la segunda edición del concurso universitario internacional Indra Future Minds Competition, lanzado por la multinacional de TI el pasado 15 de febrero, con el objetivo de enfrentar a estudiantes de todo el mundo con los retos que se encontrarán en el mundo empresarial actual, como la globalización, la multiculturalidad o el trabajo colaborativo en red. Los participantes de Filipinas se hicieron con el triunfo por su resolución del caso final sobre Smart Cities, basado en un proyecto real de Indra para el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona.”

“Addressing a a press conference, the two agencies said that at least 11 Filipino mothers die every day mainly due to lack of pre and post-natal care.”

“Efforts to go green are often linked to maximizing efficiency as budgets shrink. However — recession or not — schools haven’t given up on investments in green technology and often build this sustainability-centered mindset into their course catalogues.”

“Youth groups held a protest in front of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) yesterday as the commission announced its approval of a new round of tuition and other fee increases for school year 2012-2013. According to CHED, as much as 256 higher education institutions are set to increase tuition rates by an average of 10% this coming school year.”

“After obtaining her postdoctoral diploma, Salvador-Amores returned to the University of the Philippines Baguio to continue teaching.”

“”Robot sex is safer sex, free from the constraints, precautions and uncertainties of the real deal,” wrote Victoria University management professor and futurist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars in their paper, Robots, Men And Sex Tourism, as quoted on Stuff.co.nz.”