Nikolas, a technical specialist from the United Kingdom, is one of the early learners taking a MicroBachelors® program on edX. He recently completed the first course in the Computer Science Fundamentals program, Introduction to Networking, and told us about his experience in the program so far. What edX course or program did you take and what were your goals in taking…
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Is Big Tech About to Take Over Higher Education?
“In 2017, Scott Galloway anticipated Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods a month before it was announced,” reports New York magazine (in an article shared by long-time Slashdot reader Faizdog). Galloway teaches marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, and he’s now predicting the pandemic “has greased the wheels for big tech’s entree into higher education.”
The post-pandemic future, he says,…
Will The Pandemic Force Us to Learn How to Cook?
“In one recent survey, 54 percent of respondents said they cook more than before the pandemic,” writes a clinical associate professor at NYU’s business school: 75 percent said they have become more confident in the kitchen and 51 percent said they will continue to cook more after the crisis ends. Interest in online cooking tutorials, recipe websites and food blogs has…
‘Claim That Covid-19 Came From Lab In China Completely Unfounded Scientists Say’
Newsweek reports: There is no evidence to back claims the coronavirus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic emerged from a lab in China, scientists have told Newsweek. Adam Lauring, an associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and an expert in the evolution of viruses, told Newsweek: “This claim is a conspiracy theory and it is not supported at…
Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear
schwit1 shares a report from Bloomberg, commenting: “And the claim that this is about protecting ‘patient privacy’ is b***shit.” From the report: Ming Lin, an emergency room physician in Washington state, said he was told Friday he was out of a job because he’d given an interview to a newspaper about a Facebook post detailing what he believed to be inadequate…
Warm water measured below Antarctic glacier
The warm water found flowing under Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica helps explain its rapid melting. Thwaites is part of what’s described the “weak underbelly” of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Its melting has implications for sea-level rise around the world. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/warm-water-measured-below-thwaites-glacier-antarctica…
Installing Air Filters in Classrooms Has Surprisingly Large Educational Benefits
An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of schools in Los Angeles to install air filters, and something strange happened: Test scores went up. By a lot. And the gains were sustained in the subsequent year rather than fading away. From a report: That’s what NYU’s Michael Gilraine finds in a new working…
Researchers take exploration of key ‘building block’ particles into space
As part of SpaceX’s CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched Dec. 5, researchers from NASA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York University (NYU) are set to begin a new scientific investigation to explore how a group of microscopic particles considered key “building blocks” for materials and products here on Earth, known as colloidal particles,…