Are they amatuers at the college level
May 31, 2018
Tag: Education
The war for the right to speak
April 20, 2018
We look for a fruitful collaboration
March 13, 2018
For over three years, IAS officer Sumita Dawra was posted at the Indian mission in Beijing. During this period Dawra got to observe several aspects of the Chinese economy and society. The following is an excerpt from a book she wrote based on those observations. Being curious about the agricultural system in China, I got my […]
via An Indian bureaucrat is amazed by China’s ability to grow crops without soil — Quartz
The little known history of the United States of America
December 10, 2017
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Que Pasa?
November 29, 2017
Learning a new language takes time. But according to US diplomatic training guides, there are many languages that Americans should be able to learn in under a year. The map below shows how long it takes to learn almost 70 different languages, estimated by the Foreign Service Institute, which teaches these languages to would-be or…
via The languages that take the most (and least) time to learn, per the US Foreign Service — Quartz
After getting the short-end of the stick
November 18, 2017
There are very few black and Latinx investors, with only 2 percent of investment team members at VC firms identifying as black and just 1 percent identifying as Latinx, according to the National Venture Capital Association. This is where HBCU.vc comes in. HBCU.vc, a pivot from HBCU to Startup, aims to diversify the white, male-dominated…
via HBCU.vc trains students become venture capitalists — TechCrunch
The hidden reason American minorities are so much more likely to have diabetes — Quartz
November 17, 2017
In 1982, in the little town of Afton, North Carolina, residents sat down in the street, blocking trucks filled with toxic soil from heading to a local dump. The predominantly black town had been chosen as a dump site for the soil, which was contaminated with polybrominated biphenyls, or PCBs. (The soil was dug out…
via The hidden reason American minorities are so much more likely to have diabetes — Quartz
A race against time
November 12, 2017
Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and public health as well as clinical practice. This knowledge is combined to improve health—often through the design of medical devices for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Most of Africa’s medical equipment is imported. “Equipment graveyards” become…
via Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices — Quartz
More women in medical research improves findings
November 7, 2017
If we want to really understand human health, we need to get more women on medical research team. Researchers analyzed over 1.5 million papers and found that when a study has least one woman author, it’s more likely to include an analysis on gender and sex differences among research participants. The findings were published (paywall)…
via Female scientists make medicine better for all genders — Quartz
Teach children to read early in life
November 6, 2017
If you pick up a kid’s book in the United States that’s about a person of color, chances are the character is black. And if the character is black, there’s a decent chance he or she is oppressed. These are the findings of a team of researchers from Maine’s Bates College. On Sept. 26 the…
via A new database catalogues 1,300 children’s books about people of color — Quartz
