To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country - National No politician will admit that the United States is no longer number one. But other nations do a lot of things better -- and we need to learn from them. jbachman01/Flickr Education Week American Education News Site of Record Formación en Administración y Gestión Cultural- OEI Estas páginas de Formación en Gestión Cultural, que compartiremos cada dos meses, pertenecen a la comunidad de Gestores y Administradores Culturales y pretenden ser escenarios de conocimiento y diálogo para fortalecer la dimensión cultural de nuestros países. Iniciamos un proceso continuo e interactivo de formación, apoyo y discusión sobre los más diversos temas y problemas de la Gestión y Administración Cultural. Guión Virtual Entregas efectuadas Primera Entrega Julio de 1997, por Sergio de Zubiría e Ignacio Abello. Segunda Entrega Septiembre de 1997, por Sergio de Zubiría e Ignacio Abello.
State Health Facts - Sundhedsstatistik Medicaid Benefits Data Collection This data collection reflects Medicaid benefits covered in each state, limitations applied to those benefits, cost-sharing charges, and the reimbursement methodologies used for those benefits as of October 1, 2012. Data for five additional points in time (January 1, 2003, October 1, 2004, October 1, 2006, October 1, 2008, and October 1, 2010) are also available. GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community Technology - Luminaid: Shining a light on disasters Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010 shattered the country’s infrastructure, but for one designer it proved to be an illuminating moment. Before you read this, close the door, draw the curtains, and turn out the lights. If you are reading on your laptop, momentarily close the lid. Now that you are back, think about how it felt. Chances are it was not too disorientating or frightening. After all, you were in a familiar room with a light switch close by.
Advance Your Education With Free College Courses Online - Udacity Health - Developing world hospitals receive radical surgery In 2005, 53 patients with HIV entered a relatively well-resourced hospital in the rural town of Tugela Ferry in South Africa. Within weeks, all but one were dead. Their death certificates would record that they died from a new drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. But behind the diagnoses lay a more shocking truth: they were killed by visiting the place where they had hoped to find treatment. The incident at the Church of Scotland hospital was an enormous wake-up call for public health officials across the world. Experts like Paul Farmer at Harvard University are convinced that life-threatening microbes, allowed to thrive in congested, dirty hallways and waiting rooms, are turning countless hospitals into deathtraps.
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Is Facebook a Human Right? Hi Mark, I just read your Facebook post: “Is Connectivity a Human Right?” and I thought I’d share my perspective (and answer) with you. First off, you’ve discovered that not every individual in this world has Internet access. Welcome. Science & Environment - DNA storage: The code that could save civilisation Two scientists think we can safeguard the world's knowledge against an apocalypse if we store it in DNA. How far-fetched is the idea? Ed Yong meets them to find out. Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick Goldman can remember exactly how they came up with the idea of storing all the world’s knowledge in DNA. They know it happened in the bar of the Gastwerk Hotel in Hamburg, and that many beers were involved.
Health - The teenage scientist revolutionising cancer detection Pancreatic cancer 's high death rate is partly blamed on the difficulty of early detection. Teenage scientist Jack Andraka has come up with a cheap and simple way to test for it. Pancreatic cancer is a killer – and one that is very hard to detect. To Understand the Ukranian Protests, Look to Russia KIEV—This morning, the much-loathed Ukrainian prime minister, Mykolay Azarov, resigned. A few hours later, the parliament voted to cancel the anti-democratic laws that had brought the country on the brink of civil war. For a week, though, both sides in the standoff between security forces and anti-government protesters seemed paralyzed by tunnel vision. From the point of view of political survival, there was no reason for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to unleash violence against the protestors. Neither was there any benefit in the Euromaidan protest—which emerged as a peaceful pro-European movement two months ago—degrading into an urban guerrilla army. Yet this is what has taken place.
The urban explorers of the ex-USSR Exploring the grandiose buildings and industrial infrastructure left over from the USSR is a popular pastime for some young people - but not the faint-hearted. Known as urban exploration, the hobby involves climbing high-rise buildings, towers and bridges, or going deep underground. Russia's vast territory is dotted with industrial sites, some of which are unused and empty. But Vadim Makhorov was commissioned to take these pictures inside a water pipe by the owners of this functioning power plant in the east of the country. The Impact of Increasing the Minimum Wage on Unemployment: No Evidence of Harm A. Introduction In his State of the Union speech last month, President Obama called for a rise in the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to a new rate of $9.00 per hour. This would be a 24% increase, but would still mean that someone working full time, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year (no vacation), would earn only $18,720 a year. Such a full time worker would still be earning well less than the current federal poverty line for a family of four of $23,050 per year.