A third of 18- to 24-year old Americans not sure the world is round.
Only 66 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. are confident that the world is round, according to a new national survey.
The very reliable scientific site space.com says it doesn’t mean all the rest think the world is flat. But 4 percent of the 18- to 24-year-old age group said they actually believe the world is flat. There seem to be a relatively large number in this age group who are willing to entertain doubts: 9 percent said they had always believed the world was round but were recently having doubts, 5 percent said they had always believed the world was flat but were becoming skeptical of that conclusion and 16 percent just weren’t sure.
College with no degree, but a job and no debt
A California college-alternative school called MissionU offers a one-year, data-science program with study of 40 to 50 hours per week, and visits to high-tech businesses in the Bay area.
Students pay the school a percentage of income for three years after graduation.
This type of college is the next step up from short boot camps where students are taught software-engineering skills. In 2017 there were at least 95 similar one-year schools as reported in Course Report, which produced over 22,000 graduates, with tuition cost around $11,000.
In a related issue, analysts are observing that many high school students are graduating without ever having used a regular keyboard, also that the use of currency is becoming so limited that high school and even college students must now be taught how to make change using coins.
New Common Application used by over 750 colleges
A new single standard application form is now accepted by over 750 colleges.
Prospective college students can fill out this form and use the one form to apply to many colleges, instead of having to do the specific long forms provided by all the separate colleges.
Want to know what about you FaceBook and Google are selling?
Take a deep breath and expect to spend much of a day looking through each of these:
Facebook’s info includes every message you’ve ever sent or been sent, every file you’ve ever sent or been sent, all the contacts in your phone, and all the audio messages you’ve ever sent or been sent, plus much, much more!
Facebook info on you:
Google’s link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, plus your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve taken on your phone, the businesses you’ve bought from, the products you’ve bought through Google. They also have data from your calendar, your Google hangout sessions, every location you’ve visited, the music you listen to, the Google books you’ve purchased, the Google groups you’re in, the websites you’ve created, the phones you’ve owned, the pages you’ve shared, how many steps you walk in a day, and much, much more.
Google info on you:
New brain cells ARE generated in old age!
The hippocampus, a small part of the brain, has a unique shape, similar to that of a horseshoe. It not only assists with the storage of long term memories, but is also responsible for the memory of the location of objects or people. We would not even be able to remember where our house is without the work of the hippocampus. Alzheimer’s disease, (a disease that effects elderly people and often results in loss of memory) has been proven to have affected and damaged this area of the brain. Info regarding our brain:
A new study has learned that ongoing brain cell regeneration in the hippocampus is likely, and that it sustains cognitive function throughout life. The ability to separate similar memory patterns and recover from stress may depend on this regeneration of brain cells. New brain cells are generated in the dentate gyrus, a part of the adult human hippocampus, even after middle age.
Healthy elderly people have the potential to remain cognitively and emotionally more intact than commonly believed, due to the persistence of this brain cell regeneration into and beyond the eighth decade of life.
As has long been known, exercise enhances cerebral blood volume, which results in better cognitive performance in humans.
Editor note: Good news for me, your editor Dave Bunting, as I’m 79, having almost completed my eighth decade. I, as well as everyone around me, knows I am more and more absent-minded, but, happily, my recent test for Alzheimers was negative.
Human Memory Improved By Stimulation Device
This recent study first learned the nerve electronic signals that patients’ brains were generating when they were remembering successfuilly. Then they artificially generated these same signals during memory tests, which did indeed improve their ability to remember.
The test was on patients in a hospital who already had electrodes implanted into their brains for treatment of epilepsy.
The technology may lead to future devices we could wear externally to help us remember.