What's Working in Education? Aprendiz in San Paulo, Brazil

This article discusses a best practice model for education that is from San Paulo Brazil. The Associacao Cidade Escola Aprendiz (City School Apprentice Association) is a model that integrates education and the family/local community resources and in the process enhances both.

Lagrange Points - Best Place to Refuel Space Ships and Transportation Vehicles

Perhaps, you have heard about Lagrange points. These are the points at which gravity equilibrium occurs between two bodies - for instance, between the sun and the earth there is a point where the gravity is equal to zero or between the moon and the earth. There are also several other points which turn out to have equilibriums.

The Job Outlook for Nursing Careers

Although the economy is sluggish, the job outlook for nursing careers still looks pretty good especially compared with many other careers that are experiencing hiring freezes at the moment. We will always need nurses, and even if hospitals are enacting some hiring freezes, travel nurses and other nursing positions are always going to be available. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics foresees a much faster job growth for nurses compared to other careers through the year 2016.

Speed Boat Bottom Design Makes Sense for Wave Rider Aircraft Designs

When scientists and engineers look at CADCAM design computers using fluid dynamics the same computer renderings allow the innovator to jump from air to water, or to various densities of either. This means that you can take a submarine, and then figure out how it would act as an airplane, or even a spacecraft. That may sound pretty funny, but it's not really considering the new space-age technology and new materials that science is coming up with.

Tubular Wind Turbine Generation for Mars - Tethered Balloon System Debated

Not long ago, I talked to an interesting individual who claimed to be a business manager developing a business plan for a tubular wind generator system which could be tethered and flown like a kite. Although their current research and development, and prototype was for use here on Earth, I immediately looked at it and said that might work for a Mars colony sometime in the next decade or so. Interestingly enough, the business manager claimed to have an MBA, and he just graduated from Harvard.

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