COLLEGE RANKINGS AND COMPARISON

U.S. Department of Education- College scoreboard

College Abacus; Pell Abacus

ionMatch

Scholarmatcher

PayScale College ROI Report

ONLINE COURSES

--- Penn State

--- Harvard

LOW INCOME to high income

-- www.build.org

entrepreneurship program for low-income students

-- www.samasource.com

helps low-income people gain work with MS,Ebay,LinkedIn etc...

3-D Printing

-- build object by depositing layers of plastic or other materials ( like carbon-fiber ), while being fused by laser or UV light. Have a physical object of your computer model/design withing minutes/hrs...

-- PLA= polylactic Acid filament

-- Carbon3D inc.

--- projecting light continuously through a pool filled with resin, gradually solidifying it onto a overhead platform, lifting the object upwards until completion= faster and more solid than layer-by-layer depositions

-- www.autodesk.com

--- Autodesk is a world leader in 3D design software for entertainment, natural resources, manufacturing, engineering, construction, and civil infrastructure

-- 3-D printing for prototyping. If you need 10 parts, print it, if hundreds or more- build a mold and injection mold it

---- 3D vs molding: different mold for every different part to be produced, worse if specifications change- 3D printing = computer model that can be updated any time...3D can handle complex design and print item with multiple parts all at once ( usually ) vs molding, which may require several separate molds and then assembly...

-- 3-D printing of metal with CNC ( Computer numerical control) milling

-- MakerBot 3-D printer; www.stratasys.com, www.3dsystems.com

-- BEST application: F-35 Lightning! uses hundreds of 3D printed tools to get assembled

3-D printing for kids

-Mattel: "Thingmaker" re-inauguration as 3-D printer; Thingmaker App

HYGROTHERMAL Analysis

-- the study of how to design buildings more efficiently based on hygrothermal analysis- how heat and moisture move through structures

Glitter SOLAR CELLS

- Optical Microelectro- mechanical systems- Technology

- use light to drive tiny machines

- use microfabrication techniques

- make solar cells that use 100x less silicon to produce same amount of electricity

- solar glitter next?

Source: Sandia National Laboratories, NM

Transparent luminescent solar concentrator module

-- Michigan State University

-- make solar harvesting surfaces everywhere

Hot WIRING BACTERIA to build SEMICONDUCTORS

- anaerobic bacteria in YOUR yard can move electrons to solid rock!

- bacteria grow protein nanowires to shuttle electrons to their surroundings!

- objective: harness the microbes' metabolism to power electrical devices and build nanostructures

Source: University of SoCal

THE ALGAE HOUSE- BIQ

Frankenstrasse, Hamburg, Germany: the Bio Intelligence Quotient building

http://www.iba-hamburg.de/en/projects/the-building-exhibition-within-the-building-exhibition/smart-material-houses/biq/projekt/biq.html

- Sustainable building practices: transform a four story facade into a living power plant!

--- ENERGY PRODUCING GLASS PANEL filled with ALGAE ( trade name "SolarLeaf" )

----- heats appartments, produces electricity, eats carbon dioxides!

- Billions of algae organisms, 129 bio glassreactors, the natural process of photosynthesis+ sun= multiplication!

- Reproduction of Algae means heat release thu heating the water--heat exchanger to heat another water line-- that water used for room heating/floor heating/hot water for sink/shower etc.- excess hot water stored-- biogas to power converter to grid line electricity!

The MARANGONI EFFECT

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/marangoni.html

Surface Tension gradients and some interesting future effects in the kitchen! Check out the journal "Bioinspiration and Biomimetics", http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-3190 . Check out M.I.T for its fancy cocktail accessory ( M.I.T. professor John Bush and Harvard lecturer Chef Jose Andres )- seen in ScientificAmerican.com, Feb 2014.

EARTH FROM SPACE

www.pbs.org/nova

-- Get this video, its the basis for all comprehending- and further studying of our mother earth- its eather pattern, its value for mankind, and...its destruction by mankind! $24,99, Earth from Space; Great everyday present!

--- Excerpts:

=== the magnetoshere is generated by the rotation and our core

=== What keep us really alive? CO2, which is processed by our plants, simply into a type of sugar and then used by plants to produce O2 ( called photosynthesis with some help from the sun ). During daytime, there is more O2 present than during night. At night, there is more CO2 present in the "darker" portions of our planet. So, our plants keep us alive.

=== Did you know that 1/5th of our O2 is produced by the Amazon Rainforest/Delta? However, the sediment flushed into the river Delta downstream, is digested by microorganisms and then released in form of..O2! This "Plancton" replenishes O2 into our air, which is over 1/2 of the total air we breathe!

=== Nitrites, for example 30000 (!) tons of which are transported through the athmoshpere from the Sahara to the Amazon rainforest, fall via rain to earth and act as a natural Fertilizer!

=== Energy of the sun hitting Earth every day? 1 million TERA Watts!

=== What else promotes life on earth? Lightning! 40 Billion lightning stirkes per day, 40,000 thunderstorm clouds per day!

http://planetary.org/

http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Wns1oDJSH7U

Empowering the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration.

We are at a crucial turning point in planetary exploration.

After a decade of success with Cassini at Saturn, the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the take-your-breath-away excitement of the skycrane landing of Curiosity on Mars, NASA's planetary exploration program was rewarded with budget cuts that seriously impair NASA's ability to explore the Solar System.

The White House proposed deep cuts to Planetary Science in 2013 and 2014. But due to overwhelming public support, Congress rejected the full cuts each time.

Now, for the third year in a row, the White House has proposed to cut Planetary Science. A mission to Europa seems possible, but NASA has not yet committed. We need to make this vision a reality. Take a minute and send your representatives a message (or write the President if you're outside the U.S.).

THE PLANETARY SOCIETY

www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-imaging/amateur.html

-- www.unmannedspaceflight.com

-- access to millions of pictures taken by public spacecraft like the Hubble telescope: www.hubblesite.org/gallery

SMITHSONIAN

The LYCURGUS CUP: a 1,600 year old Roman chalice "the" key to a supersensitive new technology?

-- it appears jade green when lit from the front, but blood-red when lit from behind!

-- 1990, scientist discovered the secret: the Romains were NANOTECHNOLOGY pioneers ( how can that be? ): through impregnation of the glass with silver and gold particles, as small as 50 Nanometers in diameter= 1/1000 the size of a table salt grain!

-- Researcher: Ian Freestone from the University College London.

-- this nanotechnology can be used to diagnose disease, detecting dangerous liquids etc...

ENERGY INNOVATION

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/introducing-a-special-report-on-energy-innovation-3327779/

-- invent the energy of our future!

http://www.onlinemodelunitednations.org/book-page/moderating-and-chairing

-- become a United Nations moderator! O-MUN has a continually growing need for moderators and chairs. It takes a minimum of five students to run an online debate

http://www.menloappacademy.com

-- Learn to Code ( write digital code ), and be a Contender! Also,  http://www.code.org . Week long summer session at $395. Lua coding language. One-day App building classes.

MOOC- massive online open courses: global online higher education revolution! From poverty to your Ph.D.! More on http://www.udacity.com

New Charter University of San Francisco

www.new.edu

-- offering business degrees for working adults!

University of the People

www.uopeople.org

-- Non profit, NO TUITION

MBA for the AMERICAS

-- www.bus.miami.edu/unamericas

--- Miami Executive MBA for the Americas

STUDY ABROAD (from usatoday.com)

www.minerva.kgi.edu

-- World Campus- study abroad in up to seven world capitals

-- Minerva schools at Keck Graduate Institute

---- Grand Opening: Fall 2015

---- TUITION WILL BE $10,000; total cost without airfares will be approximately $ 29,000 a year.

---- BE part of the founding class and curriculum, 15-19 students.

---- First year student topics: Cornerstone skills like Theoretical analysis, Data Analysis, Communications

---- Supported also by Mr. Lawrence Summers, former Treasury secretary and Harvard president; Roger Kornberg, Nobel prize winning  Chemist; and more.

Stanford University : entrepreneurship class by Steve Blank

CODING

www.girlswhocode.com-- Girls learn the computer programming science!

www.icodeinc.com iCode, Inc-- beginners pay 250$ /month, advanced 295 $/month. Classes for kids, two 1hr and 2hrs/week in the laboratory

www.UJAM.com

-- cloud-based music creation and production platform- MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC!

-- Traktor DJ App for iPad or iPhone- spin your music collection

www.thegreatcourses.com

-- College level courses taught by the best professors of universities like Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Georgetown.

-- over 450 comprehensive courses: science, ancient/ modern history, everyday skills like public speaking, photography etc.

WATER FROM SPACE

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/sonnensystem-interplanetarer-staub-bringt-wasser-zur-erde-a-944701.html

-- DID you know that interplanetary dust, when hit by the solar wind, can carry water to earth and other planets in our system? Check it out...

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: a new knee ligament

-- ALL- Anterolateral ligament. Ever had a ACL tear that did not heal properly? Chances are that at the same time the ALL was actually torn as well- discovered by a team of Belgian doctors. ( seen in Mens Journal, January 2014 edition, page 44 )

QUANTUM COMPUTERS

-- Quantum encryption and networks

-- can do multiple processes at once with "qubits": based on Quantum effect called superposition, meaning that a qubit can be bit 0 and bit 1 at once...

-- today's encryption based upon RSA (...) and ECC (elliptic curve cryptography), new: QKD Quantum key distribution

-- "Battelle" company www.battelle.org; network encryption company "ID Quantique" www.idquantique.com

FRONTIERS FOR YOUNG MINDS

-- www.kids.frontiersin.org

-- each study posted is reviewed by kids age 8-15!

-- open source of information for everyone

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Work in the Alps,on a farm and live/eat for free in return-= check it out under the travel tab...

http://www.emptylegmarket.com/

empty charter legs- check it out!

Are you a Space Junky? Go check out millions of public accesssible pictures:

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-imaging/amateur.html

Do you know what episodic memory is and what its susceptibility to failure can lead to? Its failure is normally called Amnesia, or worst case: "AD- Altzheimers"

Quantum Computers are coming!

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