For the first time in more than 4 years, NASA is now accepting applications for future astronauts. Aspiring moon to Mars explorers have until March 31 to apply. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/nasa-astronaut-apply-march2020…
Tag: citizenship
Newspaper Decries Fearmongering of the ‘Student Surveillance Industry’
Iowa City’s school board heard presentations from “two companies pitching digital surveillance services,” complains a columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, expressing concerns about their offers to “track students’ digital lives and flag potential threats for in-house analysts and school officials to review.” The student surveillance industry is overrun with buzz words, misinformation and fearmongering. Digital citizenship. Crowd-sourcing. Machine-learning algorithm. Those…
Disney Blocks John Oliver’s New Episode Critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Disney-owned Hotstar, India’s largest on-demand video streaming service with more than 300 million users, has blocked the newest episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. From a report: The move has angered many of its customers ahead of Disney+’s launch in one of the world’s largest entertainment markets next month. In…
NASA is Looking for New Astronauts
“With a renewed interest in sending humans back to the Moon and then eventually to Mars, NASA needs all the able-bodied space explorers it can get…” writes BGR. “The requirements are, well, pretty strict, but what else would you expect from a group that sends humans into space?” Quoting NASA.gov:
Since the 1960s, NASA has selected 350 people to train as astronaut…
Q&A with Shira Lee Katz, Head of Content Strategy at Coursera
1. Tell us about yourself and your experience. After 20 years of work (and play) in a variety of fields—content strategy, learning, kids, and more—one thing I can say is that anywhere, anytime learning is powerful. “Anywhere, anytime learning” is the notion that learning isn’t confined to the four walls of a classroom. Rather, it […]
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