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Rockwell CEO: Manufacturing needs to teach and reach younger students
2015-06-09 00:52:36| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Manufacturers and educators need to focus on students in elementary schools to develop the pool of innovators who will carry U.S. businesses through an era of disruptive change, the chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc. told business leaders Monday. Programs like the FIRST Lego League and the FIRST Robotics Competition, both supported by Rockwell, are the pathways to attract youths to manufacturing and overcome the biggest challenges facing industry, Keith Nosbusch said at a monthly meeting of the Greater Milwaukee Committee .
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What Australia Can Teach the World about Surviving Drought
2015-05-28 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: From 1997 to 2009, Australia faced the worst drought in the country's recorded history. In Melbourne, a city of 4.3 million people located in southeastern Australia, water levels dropped to an all-time low capacity of 25.6 percent before the drought eased. Despite the dire situation, the city reduced water demand per capita by almost 50 percent by implementing a slew of policies and programs. The actions taken in Melbourne can be used as a road map for water-stressed places around the world,...
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06.25: Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
2015-05-18 22:04:43| Powells Books Events Calendar
The orca, otherwise known as the killer whale, is one of earth's most intelligent animals. Remarkably sophisticated, orcas have languages and cultures and even long-term memories. They are also benign and gentle, which makes the story of the captive-orca industry and the endangerment of their population in Puget Sound that much more damning. In Of Orcas and Men (Overlook), a marvelously compelling mix of cultural history, environmental reporting, and scientific research, David Neiwert explores an extraordinary species and its occasionally fraught relationship with human beings.
How to teach climate change to a conservative community
2015-05-14 10:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The National Center for Science Education is a non-profit organization with some 5,000 members that provides information and resources for schools, parents, and concerned citizens working to keep evolution and climate science in public school science education. The center originally devoted its energies to fighting efforts by some schools to teach creationism alongside evolution, but in 2012 started an initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change to fight climate change denial...
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'Mad Men' can teach young marketers more about their craft
2015-04-07 07:43:53| Airlines - Topix.net
Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm, is seen seated at a bar at The Royal Hawaiian hotel in Waikiki in the opening episode of the sixth season of "Mad Men" on AMC. The series, about a fictional New York advertising agency, will begin airing its final seven episodes from the series' seventh season on Sunday.
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