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How are you celebrating Ada Lovelace Day this year? If you’re a science and technology major you may be making plans. The rest of us have much to learn about this lady.
It may pique the interest of English majors to know that Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron.
We don’t read newspapers, we don’t watch the 9 o-clock news and the radio isn’t our fount of current events. So where does our generation get its news?Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart.So what happened to make Comedy Central the source of daily news and world events for the twenty-something generation?I mean for a show that flaunts its “fake news” angle, it has won 2 Peabody awards and in 2005 Stewart was named one of the most influential people of the year.A Jewish Comedian from New Jersey, the most influential person of the year? How did this happen? Free Speech ZoneThe Free Speech Zone offers a space for contributions from readers, without editing by the TC Daily Planet. This is an open forum for articles that otherwise might not find a place for publication, including news articles, opinion columns, announcements and even a few press releases. I’ll tell you how this happened, the mainstream news media has failed in holding the interests of the current generation.News media is now held in the clutches of private ownership and interest. Continue Reading
The Blandin Foundation just hosted a gathering of people interested in making sure Minnesota gets it share of the Obama Stimulus Package money devoted to getting people broadband Internet service.(More detail on the broadband portion of the package here)
Six major take-aways from the meeting:
Another voice has been heard in the debate over whether Minnesota’s education system is nation-leading or is simply average. In its yearly “Technology Counts” survey, the respected publication Education Week gives Minnesota an average grade for how it supplies and uses technology in schools. In one category, Minnesota almost flunks. The report does not issue overall grades for the states. Instead, it gives grades in policies related to the use of technology for learning, policies designed to increase educators’ capacity to use technology and student access to technology. Continue Reading
Trains chug into Elbow Lake, Minnesota, pulling more than 100 hopper cars to be loaded with corn or wheat – and sometimes soybeans – that start a journey from farms on the lower edge of the Red River Valley to markets as far away as Japan, Russia, India, Egypt, China and Morocco. Part 2 in a 5 part series. Click Here to read last week’s story. Technology makes this possible. It is a technological change that will cause some rural communities to dry up and blow away while it opens opportunities for some people to do business anywhere from a base they choose to call home. Continue Reading