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In the news, DigiCert statement on Trustico certificate renovation, GitHub survived the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded, Black Panther inspired Disney to fund a STEM center in Oakland, & more on this episode of Application Security Weekly! News B… Continue reading DigiCert, GitHub, & Black Panther – Application Security Weekly #7
Diversity efforts in science and technology aren’t successfully combating discrimination, finds Pew Research Center. Continue reading Study Finds Women and Minorities in STEM Are Discriminated Against, to the Shock of No One
You wake up one morning with The Idea — the one new thing that the world can’t do without. You slave away at it night and day, locked in a garage expending the perspiration that Edison said was 99 percent of your job. You Kickstart, you succeed, you get your prototypes out the door. Orders for the new thing pour in, you get a permanent space in some old factory, and build assembly workstations. You order mountains of parts and arrange them on shiny chrome racks, and you’re ready to go — except for one thing. There’s nobody sitting at …read more
Continue reading Danielle Applestone: Building the Workforce of 2030
Kaya Thomas created WeReadToo to share books by authors of color featuring characters of color. Continue reading The Software Developer Bringing Diversity to Your Reading List
Virginia governor-elect Ralph Northam, who is a doctor, was just one of more than a dozen candidates with STEM backgrounds to win elections in November. Continue reading 17 STEM Politicians Won Elections Tuesday
The FBI’s longterm strategy for hiring proficient cybersecurity professionals involves reaching into high schools, helping foster STEM education and perhaps most importantly, encouraging students to enroll in Scholarship for Service programs that eventually guide them toward Quantico, said Howard Marshall, deputy assistant director of the bureau’s cybersecurity division. “[Cyber workforce recruitment] is a huge challenge for us, maybe one of our biggest,” Marshall said Wednesday at CyberTalks in Washington, D.C. “We have a significant portion of our agents and investigators that are not equipped, what you could probably call not tech-savvy, that are not going to be much help when it comes to the technical side of an investigation.” Marshall said the FBI currently has a nationwide pilot program in which agents are working to encourage the study and development of science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses in high school. The idea is to get students engaged in exercises and other activities that […]
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Within the last few years, a lot of companies have started with the aim to disrupt the educational electronics industry using their LEGO-compatible sets. Now they’re ubiquitous, and fighting each other for their slice of space in your child’s box of bricks. What’s going on here?
The main reason for LEGO-compatibility is familiarity. Parents and children get LEGO. They have used it. They already have a bunch. When it comes to leveling up and learning about electronics, it makes sense to do that by adding on to a thing they already know and understand, and it means they …read more
Continue reading LEGO-compatible Electronics Kits Everywhere!
For those of a certain vintage, no better day at school could be had than the days when the teacher decided to take it easy and put on a film. The familiar green-blue Bell+Howell 16mm projector in the center of the classroom, the dimmed lights, the chance to spend an hour doing something other than the normal drudgery — it all contributed to a palpable excitement, no matter what the content on that reel of film.
But the best days of all (at least for me) were when one of the Bell Laboratory Science Series films was queued up. The …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Bell Laboratory Science Series
We have fond memories of air-water rockets, which were always a dime store purchase for summertime fun in the pool. Despite strict guidance from mom to shoot them only straight up, the first target was invariably a brother or friend on the other side of the pool. No eyes were lost, and it was good clean fun that was mercifully free of educational value during summer break.
But now a teacher has gone and ruined all that by making an air-water rocket launching pad for his STEM students. Just kidding — [Robert Hart] must be the coolest teacher in Australia …read more
Continue reading Launch Pad for Air-Water Rockets is Good Clean Fun for STEM Students
A panelist at Starmus said he trusts Siri with a “male” voice. Continue reading Sexist Comments Spark Outrage at Major Astronomy Festival