“Between global warming, Elon Musk, and a worldwide crackdown on carbon, the future looks treacherous for Big Oil,” argues CNN Business writer Matt Egan, calling the rise of electric vehicles “an existential threat to the oil industry.” “Passenger vehicles are the No. 1 source of demand for oil — and tomorrow’s transportation system may no longer rely on the gas station.”
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Facebook Says Breaking Up Facebook Won’t Do Any Good
Thursday Facebook’s co-founder called for the government to break up the company. Saturday Facebook responded, according to an article shared by Slashdot reader soldersold: Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications wrote the piece, and in it, he agrees with Hughes that “companies should be held accountable for their actions,” and that tech companies such as Facebook shouldn’t…
65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, school segregation is getting worse
Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/5/10/18566052/school-segregation-brown-board-education-report…
Unfathomably deep oceans on alien water worlds?
Distant water exoplanets might have oceans thousands of miles deep. That’s in contrast to Earth’s ocean, which is about 6.8 miles (about 11 km) deep at its deepest point. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/exoplanet-water-worlds-deep-oceans-2019-study…
How to Design Lessons Based on Current Research
Written by Younes Bensouda Mourri & Adam Hodges We live in a time of rapidly accelerating advancements in technology. This can be seen in the field of machine translation which, over the course of a few years, has gone from rule-based translation techniques to neural network techniques to the most recent approach known as the […]
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Why AI Will Never Replace Teachers
Today, on Teacher Appreciation Day, I want to firmly drive home one very important point: AI will never replace our amazing teachers – and I’m saying that as the CEO of the online learning platform edX and in the business of developing education technology. It’s common to think of technologies like AI as things that can easily be used to replace…
5 essential L&D themes from Coursera Partner Conference
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2019 Coursera Partners Conference in London, where we brought together academic, business and tech pioneers in a two-day celebration of learning. Amongst guest speakers were Thomas Friedman, Yale University, the Abu Dhabi Dhabi School of Government, AXA, Novartis, Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng, and many more. Throughout the […]
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Pursuing New Interests and a Master’s Degree: Meet Bertram
What program did you take on edX, and what were your goals in taking it? I started taking TU Delft’s first Solar Energy MOOC, back in 2013. Following that, in 2017 I enrolled in the Solar Energy Engineering MicroMasters® program from the same university. My university didn’t have a particular focus on solar, and I was eager to learn about it…
2 Popular Foods May Turn Immune System Against Brain
Sayer Ji – Two of the Western world’s most popular foods have been implicated in immune mediated brain damage. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/05/06/2-popular-foods-may-turn-immune-system-against-brain/…
Today in science: 1st American in space
Alan Shepard became the 1st American in space on May 5, 1961. His suborbital flight took place just 3 weeks after the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth once. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/alan-shepard-first-american-in-space-may-5-1961…