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“In a series of 18 aquarium tanks, the exhibit will explore reproduction, from attraction to mating to evolution, using iPads instead of labels, allowing guests to flip through images, videos and loads of information.”
” In its stead, you have to create a professional persona. That persona is a full-fledged adult who demonstrates a tightly organized research program, a calm confidence in a research contribution to a field or discipline, a clear and specific trajectory of publications, innovative but concise, non-emotional ideas about teaching at all levels of the curriculum, a non-defensive openness to the exchange of ideas, and most importantly, a steely-eyed grasp of the real (as opposed to fantasy) needs of actual hiring departments, which revolve ultimately, in the current market, around money.”
“The Philippines’ Education Department has begun a roll out of so-called “pushcart classrooms” aimed at educating street children and out-of-school youth in the capital Manila.”
“For her awe-inspiring role in building libraries and countering the culture of guns with books and education in Mindanao, 17-year-old Arizza Ann Sahi Nocum recently received an award from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).”
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NexNote: That should’ve been my life.
“A traditional college education—and the thousands of dollars in student debt—may not be for everyone. Thiel Fellow and education disruptor Dale Stephens takes a look at one teen who decided to forgo university and move to France.”
NexNote: We should start building up UP’s (permanent) endowment. Annual contributions from the State must go to this.
“Many prisoners are wrongly incarcerated because of sloppy forensic analysis, an expert believes.”
“To all you skeptics saying “Hay nako there go the UP activists na naman”, I am ashamed of YOU and not of the students rallying behind this amazing cause. To all you idiots that may think that this issue shouldn’t bother me, because my parents can pay for a private university’s tuition fee anyway, gago kayo.”
“Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.”
