While InSight’s seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki (Tohoku University) and Bill McDonough (Tohoku University and University of Maryland, College Park), have built a new compositional model for Mars. They used rocks from Mars and measurements from orbiting satellites to predict the depth to…
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When it “Clicked”: A Penn MCIT Online Student Shares How He Went From No Computer Science Background to Coding Video Games in 3 Months
Working full time for the U.S. State Department, Aleks Jarcev has mastered time management while earning his degree online. Aleks Jarcev grew up spending endless hours playing computer games and even attempting to build them. Now, after three months in the MCIT Online program from the University of Pennsylvania, he is coding video games on […]
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This date in science: Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
Ninety years ago on this date, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. It was, until 2006, regarded as the ninth planet in our solar system. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-clyde-tombaugh-discoverer-of-pluto…
How Alexander advanced his IT career with a Professional Certificate
My journey with information technology growing up in Sierra Leone I grew up in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, at a time when computers were a luxury and largely inaccessible. I got lucky when I was eleven and was able to use the computer for the first time when my mother was assigned a work […]
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For you, Valentine: 10 reasons we fall in love
On this Valentine’s Day 2020, what the world of science suggests about the mystery we call love. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/for-you-valentine-top-10-reasons-we-fall-in-love…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – January 2020
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant 2020 is already proving to be an exciting year for skill development on Coursera. Our university and industry partners launched over 60 courses in January – an average of 2 courses per day. Our new courses range in topic from IT automation and feature engineering to visual analytics, […]
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Mysterious fast radio burst repeats in 16-day rhythm
For the first time, a fast radio burst has been found to be repeating, in a regular 16-day cycle. The baffling detection from the CHIME radio telescope deepens the mystery of these bizarre intergalactic objects. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-repeats-in-16-day-rhythm…
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
Motherboard reports on the possible explanations for why people born blind are protected from schizophrenia: Over the past 60-some years, scientists around the world have been writing about this mystery. They’ve analyzed past studies, combed the wards of psychiatric hospitals, and looked through agencies that treat blind people, trying to find a case. As time goes on, larger data sets have…
Federal Workforce Too Reliant On College Degrees, Says Trump Administration
dcblogs writes: In the federal government, approximately 30% of the 2.1 million civilian employees have a master’s degree or above. That’s compared to about 15% at large firms in the private sector, according to the White House’s 2021 budget. The federal workforce is also older than the private sector. The average age of federal workers is 46, versus 42 for all…
Are There Generational Differences In First Coding Languages and Learning Resources?
“Under the age of 39? Odds are that most of your peers learned to code in C. “Most Baby Boomers and Gen Xers — or, those between the ages of 40 and 74 in 2020 — learned to code in BASIC.” That’s just one of the interesting conclusions from HackerRank’s third annual “Developer Skills Report,” which this year compiled responses from…