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Boston startup launches GilaPad to ‘revolutionize digital learning’
Tuatara is working with McGraw Hill Higher Education, and is in the “final stages” of signing another major U.S. publisher, he said. The ultimate mission, according to a news release, is to help users “get the most from the vast amounts of information becoming available every day” and “revolutionize the digital learning experience.” Xicay says […]
A Big IDEA
The global economic crisis of the last five years has concentrated our collective attention, both here in the U.S. and around the world, on the need for jobs — as well as the need for strategies to support meaningful economic growth. Clearly, higher education has an important role to play here. For example, a December […]
Here’s How Little Math Americans Actually Use at Work
Remember sitting through high school math class while the teacher droned on about polynomial equations and thinking there wasn’t a chance you’d ever use any of it in life? Well, if you’re like most Americans, chances are your 17-year-old self was absolutely correct. As it turns out, less than a quarter of U.S. workers report […]
NBC News
Boston braces for economic impact from bomb blasts
The annual marathon alone generates nearly $140 million in revenues for local hotels, shops, restaurants, and other businesses, according to the Boston Athletic Association, which sponsors the race. “This won’t be just affecting the marathon, it’s likely to affect events that will happen outdoors this summer,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University professor who focuses […]
The Scientist
“White-Blooded” Icefish, 1927
On December 1, 1927, zoologist Ditlef Rustad pulled ashore on Bouvet Island, 1,750 kilometers off the coast of Antarctica, as part of a Norwegian expedition to claim the remote, wind-whipped island as a whaling outpost. Later that month, casting nets into the frigid waters, Rustad hauled up a very strange-looking fish. It had no scales […]
The Abington Journal
Lost lives remembered
Members of the Jewish faith gathered Sunday to commemorate the lives and heroism of those who died in the Holocaust. The Jewish Community Center of Wyoming Valley commemorated Yom HaShoah at a special service featuring the testimony and perspective of guest speakers before culminating with a torch-lighting ceremony.