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Northeastern University and Mayo Clinic launch first university-industry degree on Coursera

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Northeastern University and Mayo Clinic launch first university-industry degree on Coursera

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera

Today, I am pleased to announce a Master’s in Management (MSM) in digital healthcare transformation from  D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, a top 50 U.S. university, and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, ranked the best U.S. hospital. This is the first time a university and industry leader have collaborated to create a degree on Coursera. 

The year-long program will prepare those in healthcare, such as nurses, clinicians, and case managers, for leadership roles and help current managers and executives in other industries break into healthcare. There is a dire need for U.S. healthcare workers amid an unprecedented shortage, which is expected to grow to 3.2 million jobs by 2026. Globally, the shortage is projected to be 18 million by 2030.

The program contains live course sessions, which can be watched on-demand to maximize flexibility, and weekly faculty connect sessions with industry-leading Mayo Clinic and Northeastern experts. To help students master the skills needed for career advancement, they will analyze real-world Mayo Clinic case studies, engage in hands-on projects, and receive continual faculty feedback. 

Students will learn how to make strategic decisions to meet organizational objectives, introduce innovations to improve system-wide efficiency, and implement digital health tools to enhance the patient experience, from diagnostics to wearable tech. 

“Leveraging Mayo Clinic’s integrated approach to patient care, Northeastern University’s innovative teaching tools, and Coursera’s global platform, we will bring insights and experience to learners seeking careers at the intersection of healthcare and technology,” said John Halamka, M.D., M.S., President, Mayo Clinic Platform.

“The program is future-focused, giving learners technical knowledge and human skills needed for the future of work in the healthcare field,” said Emery Trahan, interim dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “At the same time, much of the content can be applied right away on the job and help learners accelerate their careers in real-time.”

Northeastern professors and top Mayo Clinic executives optimized this affordable, employer-driven degree for career outcomes. Students will leave the program with a robust portfolio of work, connections to a global student body, and access to Northeastern’s career services. Ninety-seven percent of Northeastern graduates are employed or in future education within nine months of graduation.

We are honored to partner with Northeastern University, ranked one of the most innovative U.S. universities, and its collaborator, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, to prepare the next generation of global healthcare leaders.

Applications for the MSM are now open for the September 2022 cohort. To learn more and apply, please visit https://www.coursera.org/degrees/msm-digital-transformation-healthcare-northeastern.

Solar energy available to everyone

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Solar energy available to everyone

The option of a new solar roof that can be adapted to the current roof of houses, with a value of up to 50% less than those on the market, is already a reality. Its name is Timberline, and it has a great attraction: its simple installation.

Knowing that the biggest expense for residential solar systems is right on-site, GAF Energy has designed Timberline Solar to install like a regular asphalt-composite roof shingle—that is, with nail guns and ropes, in fact, are the first nailable solar roof tiles in the world.

In this video you can see how the Timberline installation is done.

This new solar technology received an award at CES 2022 for the Best Innovation Award for Smart Cities, as well as innovation awards in the smart city and smart home categories.

For now, GAF Energy makes Timberline Solar in the US, helping to alleviate the dirty little secret of home solar power: Typical Chinese-made solar panels burden the environment with a lot of upfront pollution from its coal-fired power plants. GAF Energy’s plant in Silicon Valley is powered by one of the cleanest power grids in the country.

The implementation of solar roofs has multiple benefits:

–      Savings on the electricity bill

–      Decrease in environmental pollution

–      Increases home value

One of the main barriers to solar panels has been the initial outlay, but affordable technologies like those from GAF Energy put it more in the hands of the masses.

This type of news allows us to see how science and technology advances at great speed to make the planet a better place, taking care of natural resources. We all have a very important role as a society in these advances. Careers such as Mechanical Engineering, Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, are essential when it comes to these developments.

In 2020, residential solar projects increased 11%, and by the third quarter of 2021, one in 600 US households installed a solar system. With the arrival of Timberline this number will grow making solar panels an affordable and possible technology.

 

If you are looking to learn more about the subject of solar panels, we share a bibliography on the subject:

Official site GAF Energy

Official site CES 2022 Innovation Awards

Here Comes the Sun: Valley Solar Shines a Light on Benefits of Solar Panels.

Solar Energy and Solar Panels: Systems, Performance and Recent Developments

 

The Antikythera a 2000-year-old puzzle still in the making

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The Antikythera a 2000-year-old puzzle still in the making

In our effort as humans to understand the surrounding universe. There have been many studies and experiments that have been carried out, and without them, we would not be where we are today.

Without as many facilities and communications as we enjoyed today, our ancestors sought with great fervor to dominate the cosmos and use it to their benefit. A good example will be the interest to trace the seasons, to optimize harvests and prevent temperature changes, by using an easy-to-understand example.

Proof of this, is the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek cosmos, which was an astronomical computer used to predict the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky.

Wikipedia describes it as “the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games, which was like an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.

 

 

Learning the history behind:

According to the site Ars Technica  “The Antikythera mechanism was likely built sometime between 200 BCE and 60 BCE. However, in February 2022, Freeth suggested that the famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes (sometimes referred to as the Leonardo da Vinci of antiquity) may have actually designed the mechanism, even if he didn’t personally build it. (Archimedes died in 212 BCE at the hands of a Roman soldier during the siege of Syracuse.) There are references in the writings of Cicero (106-43 BCE) to a device built by Archimedes for tracking the movement of the Sun, Moon, and five planets; it was a prized possession of the Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus. According to Freeth, that description is remarkably like the Antikythera mechanism, suggesting it was not a one-of-a-kind device”.

“The Antikythera was discovered among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. The recovery of the shipwreck itself was the first major underwater archaeological expedition. It was undertaken by sponge divers, with the assistance of the Greek Royal Navy (1900-1901)”.

“In 1951, a British science historian named Derek J. de Solla Price began investigating the theoretical workings of the device. Based on X-ray and gamma ray photographs of the fragments, Price, and physicist Charalambos Karakalos published a 70-page paper in 1959 in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Based on those images, they hypothesized that the mechanism had been used to calculate the motions of stars and planets—making it the first known analog computer”.

“In 2002, Michael Wright, concluded that the device was specifically designed to model “epicyclic” motion in keeping with the ancient Greek notion that celestial bodies moved in circular patterns, called epicycles. (This was pre-Copernicus, so the fixed point around which they moved was believed to be the Earth.)”

It’s important to highlight that in order to see something similar to the Antikythera mechanics, humanity waited until the 14th century, when the mechanical clock appeared throughout Western Europe.

And what About the future?

The Antikythera’s team plans to keep working on the mechanism — there are further inscriptions to be deciphered and the possibility that more fragments could be found.

Nowadays, the Antikythera is safe in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. In fact, some time ago, they presented a temporary exhibition called “The Antikythera Shipwreck: The ship – the treasures – the Mechanism”. 

 

What about us?

Man has always sought to acquire knowledge to improve his living conditions. There are still many gaps in history to fill, understanding that many of these inventions were lost during wars and natural misfortunes. Mechanical engineering, Science, Culture, Archaeology, history of science and technology, and historians, among many others, are critical professions to help to study the past to precede the future.

If you want to learn more about this amazing finding, don’t miss the following links:

A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World

THE CALENDAR ON THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM AND THE CORINTHIAN FAMILY OF CALENDARS.

Simulation and Analysis of Natural Seawater Chemical Reactions on the Antikythera Mechanism.

Benthic Community Formation Processes of the Antikythera Shipwreck Statues Preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (Greece).

“Like Opening a Pyramid and Finding an Atomic Bomb”: Derek de Solla Price and the Antikythera Mechanism.

Decoding the Heavens: The Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism

The ancient ‘computer’ that simply shouldn’t exist – BBC REEL

Antikythera Mechanism. The 2’000 Year Old Computer. BBC, 2012

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GUEST POST: Can Digital Detox Improve your Learning Abilities?

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GUEST POST: Can Digital Detox Improve your Learning Abilities?

What is a digital detox? The term was coined by founders of Digital Detox company that address the impact of tech dependency with camps, research, and educational programs (10). In Oxford Dictionaries definition, a digital detox is defined as a “period of time during which a person refrains from using their electronic devices, such as smartphones, regarded as an opportunity to reduce stress or focus on social interaction in the physical world” (11). In other words, it’s time we live without digital devices to rejuvenate and cleanse our minds. Conditions, such as the time and used apps, are various and depend on particular needs and expectations. Because we differ among ourselves, there is no single successful recipe. However, I want to share a few strategies to use as inspiration to find your way.

Know your habits

A successful digital detox should be tailored to your needs. Otherwise, you’ll waste your time since you won’t resolve your main concerns. To identify your goals, start by observing your daily digital habits. Here is a list of questions you can ask yourself:

  • What is your favorite time to use digital devices – morning, evening, or lunchtime? 

  • How much time do you spend on digital devices daily?

  • What places (your bedroom, office, bus) do you most often use digital devices?

  • Does your use of digital media depend on specific situations? (f.e. checking your phone in stressful social situations to calm yourself down)

  • Do you enjoy doomscrolling when you’re tired?

  • Which devices are the most time-consuming?

  • What apps take up the most of your time? Is it worth your time?

It’s just a starter pack that you can expand further, but it’s enough to identify your essential digital habits. You can also help yourself with tracking apps, such as RescueTime (activity tracker) or Space (screen time tracker).

Choose your time

Here are three digital time management strategies that may inspire you.

The first one is total: the whole day without digital devices. Basically, the idea is to clear your mind by avoiding technology for 24 hours. Depending on your needs and conditions, you can use it as weekly Sunday practice or plan it once a month. From my experience, this is the perfect chance to identify how technology fills our lives because when we avoid it, we realize when we miss it the most. In my opinion, it’s a great idea to try it at least once. As a result of my 24-hour detox, I gained free time and a peaceful mind afterward.

Experience of a 24-hour detox gives insight into everyday life but doesn’t change it. 

Indeed, the study of Peter Frost and colleagues showed that the effect is transitory: the difference in critical thinking between higher and lower users of smartphones disappeared after four weeks (12). That means it may be better to include technology-free time as a daily habit instead of doing it one week once a year. Therefore, consider taking even an hour of a digital break a day. I may be just right after waking up or before going to bed. If you tend to dive into social media when you come back tired from work, maybe the afternoon would be the perfect time for you?

Another idea is to schedule a time when you use your digital devices instead of planning when you skip them. I can’t recommend it because I haven’t tested it yet; however, it sounds worth trying.

Identify your time-wasters

Let me be clear – digital devices are not entirely wrong. Many practical applications simplify our daily lives or allow us to stay connected with our close ones. Also, sometimes turning off the mobile phone is too much. So instead of cutting off all apps at once, you can just block those which are your time-wasters.

For example, if you scroll Reddit instead of writing an essay, a website blocker (f.e. Freedom) would be helpful. If you watch TikTok instead of learning new words in a foreign language, consider apps like InsightTimer, which block your smartphone. Find out which app makes you the most inefficient and assess the solution.

Plan your alternatives

In the words of Aristotle, Nature abhors a vacuum. Without a plan for your digital break, you run the risk of failure. Your digital detox can become a stressful battle, and you may not want to do it again. Therefore, don’t overlook planning alternatives. You can read a book, go for a walk in the forest or try a new recipe. Choose any activity you are passionate about, so you will feel immersed, and you won’t even think about your smartphone. At the same time, tidying your room isn’t recommended unless you’re a clean freak.

Digital devices are not purely evil things. They are designed to provide information, entertain us, and stay in touch with loved ones despite the distance. Our fast-paced world requires quick answers to our questions. Relationships are important, and no digital detox is worth putting people out of our lives. Therefore, we don’t need to reject the benefits of digital devices. 

The point is not to throw your smartphone away and never touch it again.

At the same time, we don’t want to lose our analytic skills, performance, and deep thinking abilities. We want to keep focused, solve problems by ourselves and keep control of our lives.

So the point is to maintain control over digital devices as well.

Family

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Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration or, tell us about a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.

Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to learn more.

Want more Picture Prompts? Find them all in this column.

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Word of the Day: cum laude

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Word of the Day: cum laude

The term cum laude has appeared in 57 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 21 in the interview “Yaya DaCosta Joins Elite Society in ‘Our Kind of People,’” in which Max Gao asks Ms. DaCosta if she knew much about the hair care industry prior to playing a character who works in that industry. She replies:

I’ve always been obsessed with hair. I went to a boarding school in Massachusetts, so I would have girls from around campus coming to my dorm room, and I’d be doing their hair, and then I’d do my hair and finish all of my homework in between. I still graduated cum laude, but I was known for this. So to play a character, finally, where I get to express myself and play with hair in the way that I do in real life is such fun.

Can you correctly use the term cum laude in a sentence?

Based on the definition and example provided, write a sentence using today’s Word of the Day and share it as a comment on this article. It is most important that your sentence makes sense and demonstrates that you understand the term’s definition, but we also encourage you to be creative and have fun.

Then, read some of the other sentences students have submitted and use the “Recommend” button to vote for two original sentences that stand out to you.

If you want a better idea of how cum laude can be used in a sentence, read these usage examples on Vocabulary.com.

If you enjoy this daily challenge, try one of our monthly vocabulary challenges.

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Responding to the Shooting in Uvalde

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Responding to the Shooting in Uvalde

A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 19 children and two adults, in the deadliest shooting at an elementary school since the devastating attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

If you would like to, we invite you to post thoughts and feelings here, by clicking on the comment button above. Like all of our student forums, this one will be moderated.

Live updates about this developing news can be found here, and we have posted these additional resources and this related Student Opinion question.

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How Have School Shootings Shaped Your Experience as a Student?

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How Have School Shootings Shaped Your Experience as a Student?

Though the article was published in 2018 following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., it remains resonant in the wake of several more American gun massacres. The authors wrote:

PARKLAND, Fla. — Delaney Tarr, a high school senior, cannot remember a time when she did not know about school shootings.

So when a fire alarm went off inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and teachers began screaming “Code red!” as confused students ran in and out of classrooms, Ms. Tarr, 17, knew what to do. Run to the safest place in the classroom — in this case, a closet packed with 19 students and their teacher.

“I’ve been told these protocols for years,” she said. “My sister is in middle school — she’s 12 — and in elementary school, she had to do code red drills.”

This is life for the children of the mass shooting generation. They were born into a world reshaped by the 1999 attack at Columbine High School in Colorado, and grew up practicing active shooter drills and huddling through lockdowns. They talked about threats and safety steps with their parents and teachers. With friends, they wondered darkly whether it could happen at their own school, and who might do it.

The authors then discussed how school shootings have affected students across the United States:

Spencer Collier, the police chief in Selma, Ala., was chatting recently with a group of high school students when they brought up mass shootings and pressed him about current trends and what law enforcement agencies were doing to address them. In Connecticut, Nathaniel Laske, a high school junior, said he had asked school administrators about the apparent absence of lockdown drills or a mass shooting plan in the event something happened during school theater productions.

“A lot of people aren’t willing to talk about it,” Mr. Laske said. “When you’re part of a school community it makes you much more inclined to want to prevent things.”

Soon after Amy Campbell-Oates, 16, heard about the Parkland shooting, she knew she wanted to try, in some small way, to influence the national discussion on gun violence. She and two friends organized a protest, made posters, and on Friday, they rallied with dozens of fellow students from South Broward High School.

They carried signs that read “It Could’ve Been Us,” and “Your Silence is Killing Us,” and “We Stand with Stoneman Douglas.” They chanted, their collective voices rising as cars honked in support.

Students, read the entire article, then tell us:

  • What is it like to be a student in an era of mass shootings and gun violence in schools? How have school shootings affected you? How have they shaped your experience as a student?

  • How have you felt in the wake of the Uvalde elementary school shooting? Did you talk about it with friends, parents or teachers? Do shootings like this one ever make you feel nervous about going to school?

  • Does your school conduct active-shooter drills or lockdown drills? If so, what are they like for you? Do they make you feel safer or more worried? Do you think these kinds of drills are a good idea?

  • “The repetition of horror numbs the mind,” Thomas Fuller wrote in a recent Times article on the growing toll of gun violence. Have you ever felt this way? Do you think that, as a country, the United States is growing numb to these attacks? Why or why not?

  • The authors of the 2018 Times article described how the Parkland shooting moved students around the country to become more involved in activism. Do you think something similar will happen in the wake of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas? Why or why not? How do you think school shootings are shaping the generation of students who are in school right now?

  • There is already debate about the many ways the nation could respond to this shooting: restricting access to semiautomatic weapons; arming teachers; and treating gun violence as a public health issue. What changes do you think would help protect students and teachers? Do you plan to speak out on certain policies? If so, how?

  • Do you think we are reaching a turning point, or do you think school shootings will continue to occur with disturbing regularity in the United States? What makes you feel that way?

Weekly News Quiz for Students: Stock Market Chaos, Primary Races, S.N.L. Finale

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Weekly News Quiz for Students: Stock Market Chaos, Primary Races, S.N.L. Finale

Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer.

Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.

What Students Are Saying About Challenging School Work, Great Cooks and Everyday Pleasures

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What Students Are Saying About Challenging School Work, Great Cooks and Everyday Pleasures

There is no doubt in my mind that my mom is the best cook I know in my life because she is very passionate about cooking for family members and her friends and feels happy when someone eats a lot of her delicious food. She can cook many different cuisines such as Chinese, Thai, Burmese, and Indian. She always cooks healthy, tasty, fresh, and low-calorie foods to control the ingredients to be more natural, and creates new recipes to satisfy the whole family. She has been cooking for many years and is very skillful at cooking for ceremonies inviting many guests to honor the people, so she can prepare food quickly and knows how many meals will be enough for guests. The reason why her food is so special is that she uses a different cooking approach to various dishes and creates her distinct taste. After cooking new recipes, she writes down all the ingredients in her book to pass down from generation to generation without changing the food’s taste.

— Nyein-SW, YC-CLIP

The greatest cook in my family is definitely my mother. She grew up surrounded in cooking and food like how she raised me and learned all kinds of generational recipes her mother taught to her and her sisters which brings that homemade style that no else has in their cooking. In family gathering events or during the festival season, like Ramadan, it’s a time where everyone comes together and food is our family’s way to bring us all together and connect each and one of us.

This brings me not just closer to my family but my culture within self, by getting to experience the traditional foods from Bangladesh. For example, all the types of curry you can imagine like the homemade traditional chicken and beef curry which have this distinct taste my family makes that can’t compare to any other families. Also the Bangladeshi snacks and desserts that anyone in the family can make together, like jhalmuri, kalojam, jilapi, and my personal fav is pua pitha. So many of our family friends from Bangladesh that are living in the U.S. or across the state have come down to my house to experience my family’s cooking first hand.

— Emily, Hoggard High School In Wilmington NC

Now this was a hard question to answer because fortunately my family can cook very well but I must say the trophy goes to my grandma; her name is Sylvia Haven, born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in New York City. She is the best cook I’ve ever met. I love all of her dishes from a classic pound cake to her sautéed shrimp and fettuccine Alfredo meal (my favorite).

In “What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me” The writer says, “There was nothing special in her arsenal: Her kitchen, which was not kosher, was equipped with everyday cast-iron and Farberware cookware, a well-worn wooden chopping bowl and mezzaluna, a glass double boiler, an enameled oval blue-and-white-speckled roaster, and a pressure cooker.” It surprised me how much I can relate to the statement because my grandma didn’t go to culinary school nor neither does she have fancy techniques. But whatever she made always turned out to be the best. My theory is that since she lived in Chicago, Georgia and New York, three of the most influential food places in America, her cooking is different from others. Plus, in every meal she makes, she adds love, making the food taste 100% better. So I say this now out of my almost 17 years of living I’ve never tasted anything better than my grandma‘s food.

— Samiya, Chicago

Nothing beats my grandmother’s kale shrimp wontons. They slip teasingly around the plate on their slinky, tender bellies, escaping with a flourish if you’re not absolutely precise with your chopsticks, yielding only to the most delicate pounce (or in Dad’s case, an impertinent fork stab). The first bite unleashes a rush of hot, sour juice, like a promise fulfilled; the second crowds your mouth with sesame oil and oyster sauce, salt and pepper, some interloping pork, all jostling like fans in a mosh pit, though the ocean-fresh shrimp and still slightly sharp kale steal the show. You can’t get them in a restaurant, because her wontons tell the story of her journey; from Nanjing to San Francisco, centuries of tradition sharing the scene with upstart California produce. I’m not sure cooking is in her DNA, but her DNA is in her cooking.

— Aria, The Athenian School

The cooking DNA runs deep in my family, but I’d have to say my favorite cook is my dad … Growing up, he cooked so many things and tried new recipes constantly. However, the one thing he always fell back on was Cambodian and Chinese cooking. Passed down from his mother, he always tried his best to replicate her recipes …

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