The Highlights of Auto Futures Live: The Future of Fuel - Auto Futures Reading Time: 3 minutes Auto Futures Live: The Future of Fuel was held at the Thomson Reuters HQ in London on October 29th. The event brought together journalists, leading brands and industry professionals, including an inspiring panel. The discussion and Q&A session featured a thought-provoking discussion, including policy-making, the air quality crisis, infrastructure and, of course, which fuel will rule. From hydrogen and battery electric vehicles to synthetic fuels and the internal combustion engine, our panel and audience explored the pros and cons of each propulsion. Our panel included Riversimple CEO Hugo Spowers; Head of Electric Vehicles and Connected Services Groupe PSA, Helen Lees; Professor of Turbomachinery at Imperial College London, Ricardo Martinez-Botas and Business Lead, Clean Air, ClientEarth, Dominic Phinn. The panel was moderated by radio news reporter and presenter Rachel Burden. “You could say dinosaurs weren’t replaced by better dinosaurs. We’ll see you next time!
Note About This Icon Accidental Emacs Nice to see Emacs getting a bit of press recently. I’ve used it for almost 20 years now and it dominates my time at the keyboard. It isn’t perfect and I’m reluctant to recommend it but I wouldn’t want to be without it. Let me explain. The best thing about Emacs is that it can do everything (including the things it can’t do yet). The rest of this article describes a few of these happy accidents: modes I never knew about and tricks I wish I’d learned earlier. Emacs the Operating System Whenever I see the Emacs splash screen (click on the graphic for a close-up) I’m amazed anyone ever gets past it. You can do basic editing with the menu bar and scroll bar using the mouse. Unhappily the rest of the screen discredits this friendly proposition. Best of all, though, is the opening proposition: GNU Emacs is one component of the GNU operating system which I read as a straight-faced rebuttal of the old gag: OS integration examples META-! Window Management Well, I reckon Emacs has this problem cracked.
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Through the Wires: Quiz Challenge As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation
Lack of female role models undermining STEM career paths Role models have a great impact on one’s life choices. Teenagers who have positive role models have greater self-esteem and perform better in school than teenagers without role models in their lives, according to research. One will try to follow a role model’s footsteps, which can be done both consciously and unconsciously. When you think of famous engineers, how many women come to mind? Root of STEM’s research, which was conducted across 270 high schools, showed that on average 63% of the math and science teachers were women (68% of the math teachers and 56 % of the science teachers were women) compared to 80% women teachers in all subjects in the state of North Carolina. Currently, only 13% of practicing engineers are women and this can result in a downward spiral: the smaller the number of female engineers, the lower the chance is of one of those to become successful and become a role model to others, which again lowers the chances of women entering the field.
Science Toys | Scitoys IVI How It Should Have Ended | sometimes movies don't finish the way we'd like How Tuning Forks Work" Every time you strike a tuning fork, you're setting off a tiny, invisible hurricane. Thrashing back and forth at tremendous speeds, the two prongs of the fork, known as "tines," are smashing against nearby air molecules, kicking off a chain of impacts that echo through the air. When these violent, microscopic collisions hit your eardrum, your brain processes them as a gentle hum. By hitting a tuning fork, you're causing its tines to vibrate back and forth several hundred times per second. The way a tuning fork's vibrations interact with the surrounding air is what causes sound to form. The faster a tuning fork's frequency, the higher the pitch of the note it plays. But how do you adjust the speed at which a tuning fork vibrates? You can also adjust the pitch of a tuning fork by making it out of different materials. Keep reading to find out whether a tuning fork can make your teeth explode.
The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design | Design ‘Let’s face the considerable evidence that all sitting is harmful,” writes Galen Cranz, a design historian whose book The Chair traces this object’s long history. Not all sitting, of course. For people who use wheelchairs, they’re an elegant and crucial technology. And sitting itself is not the culprit; any unchanging, repetitive motion or posture fails to give the body the variation it needs. But Cranz, writing primarily for an audience of ambulatory readers in industrialised and therefore sedentary societies, is one of many researchers who have been saying for decades that chairs are a major cause of pain and disability. Sitting for hours and hours can weaken your back and core muscles, pinch the nerves of your rear end and constrain the flow of blood that your body needs for peak energy and attention. For most of human history, a mix of postures was the norm for a body meeting the world. But while they remind us of the human form, chairs rarely do much to actually support it.
Apocalyptic Math, Engineering and Ethics – SMARTspace@NIU Apocalyptic Math, Engineering and Ethics Home Grade Level High School Apocalyptic Math, Engineering and Ethics Apocalyptic Math, Engineering and Ethics | Posted by Caitlin Roufa | High School, Math, Middle School | 0 comments | Come on an apocalyptic journey as we explore engineering, ethics, and math. Educators Shelter Engineering Challenge Grade Levels: 3-8 In this lesson students will use the Engineering Design Process to construct a model shelter that could be used for protection from the falling ash that results after a volcanic eruption. Download Lesson PDF Ethics Challenge: Friend, Foe, or Feast Grade Levels: 6-12 In this lesson, students will participate in a writing activity and in-depth discussion about whether it is possible to hold on to one’s humanity during a catastrophic disaster. Download Lesson PDF Student Challenge We would love to see your work! Surviving Ashfall with Math Geologist Jim Walker Spouts Off About Volcanoes: Part 1 Mike Mullin at NIU: Volcanoes! 0 Comments Share Meta