MIT are doing their bit too. Needs Bill Gates and that Bezoz to get on board and start dishing our incentives to make the world better, gawd knows they have it good and know they should be helping more, this would be a good way to do it. Don’t expect governments or regular businesses to put the money up.
£50k has been put up to solve city problems by the surveyors in the UK there should be a single site that lists all the individual contests that each industry is putting a prize up for.
New global competition to encourage young people to solve problems facing the world’s cities
A new global competition to encourage students and young people to find solutions to the issues facing the world’s rapidly expanding cities was launched today.
Don’t think 2021 will have a contest, so it is time others took the lead from the example and set them up for all the different things we need. like curing nasty viruses etc.
No SpaceX, but a European competition for Delft Hyperloop instead
Seven years after Elon Musk first challenged innovators to develop a functioning hyperloop system, Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop and Hyperloop TT are in a race to bring the high-speed transportation technology into the real world. Photo illustration: George Downs
ELON Musk’s outlandish dream of a revolutionary transport system is slowly coming to pass. The futuristic Hyperloop concept he created in 2013 has been successfully tested and recieved massiv…
There’s this, but yep, an app your uni recommends would allow all colleges and unis to offer the service to students. The costs of new books are silly tbh and you only use them once, if at all.
Top websites for students to buy and sell textbooks - Study International
One way students can save money each semester is to sell old textbooks and buy older copies of new ones, instead of buying them brand new. Textbooks are A list of established and convenient websites for buying and selling textbooks.
Newcastle Uni has a programme for this, but there should be a site or app where you just list your course and it finds the cheapest version of each second-hand book you will need.
Newcastle University Students’ Union, home to over 28,000 students, offers a wide range of services that provide exciting activities, great representation and fun social, volunteering and welfare opportunities to really get excited about.
Good lord. they even have a governing body to make sure those little bots don’t get hurt. Or is it to protect the geeks that make them? The online contest idea sounds good though.
Just a stack of these in a room wired to tablets would do the trick. The site could stream the events, make videos and make advertising revenue from someone’s garage.
I can recommend the book by John Vacca that came out a while back, but it lacks biology and chemistry problems to some extent. A website would serve as an online bank.
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Yeah if anyone knows a site that just lists categorised problems with the biggest first, add the link. Biology has lots to answer, starting with the life universe and everything else.
Always wondered why the world didn’t simply list unsolved problems somewhere. Universities should have a poster in each departments lecture hall and toilets, listing that subject’s 10 top problems to solve to remind students to think big. Here’s Wikipedia’s list of unsolved problems in different subjects.
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I found this on http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php and found it quite amusing, these do not reflect my own views at all but I
According to a top-voted answer on Quora, you can hire capacity on a large communications satellite for around 200 dollars per hour – which is what big tv channels do…
“CNN, Fox or the BBC will rent 6-8MHz of satellite capacity to get video and audio back from a live news, sport or event. If it is something like a sports event then they’ll rent a few hours…You could be talking about $200 per hour or more for 8MHz.” – Bob Hannent, Innovation Architect. Satellite specialist in broadcast and telecoms.
most companies just lease usage of communications satellies, look at https://www.lyngsat.com/ to see the latest bunch of tv stations and stuff share their satellite service providers.
There is actually a spine down the middle of the pic you posted, so they don’t fall down.
I like this idea of just stacking them without the shelf. Looks great but takes room.
MIT are doing their bit too. Needs Bill Gates and that Bezoz to get on board and start dishing our incentives to make the world better, gawd knows they have it good and know they should be helping more, this would be a good way to do it. Don’t expect governments or regular businesses to put the money up.
£50k has been put up to solve city problems by the surveyors in the UK there should be a single site that lists all the individual contests that each industry is putting a prize up for.
Don’t think 2021 will have a contest, so it is time others took the lead from the example and set them up for all the different things we need. like curing nasty viruses etc.
Challenge Prizes sounds like another good way to get more clever minds focussing on the problems of today.
Think Elon would be pleased others are taking the challenge on board. It’s a great idea. so is having similar contests for other things.
Weird, now the bearded Virgin overlord is going for a hyperloop now that he is having trouble getting his. already paid, customers to space.
There’s this, but yep, an app your uni recommends would allow all colleges and unis to offer the service to students. The costs of new books are silly tbh and you only use them once, if at all.
Newcastle Uni has a programme for this, but there should be a site or app where you just list your course and it finds the cheapest version of each second-hand book you will need.
Good lord. they even have a governing body to make sure those little bots don’t get hurt. Or is it to protect the geeks that make them? The online contest idea sounds good though.
You should tell these guys about this. Wouldn’t cost much to set up if you could use your keyboard to control them without too much latency.
Just a stack of these in a room wired to tablets would do the trick. The site could stream the events, make videos and make advertising revenue from someone’s garage.
I can recommend the book by John Vacca that came out a while back, but it lacks biology and chemistry problems to some extent. A website would serve as an online bank.
Yeah if anyone knows a site that just lists categorised problems with the biggest first, add the link. Biology has lots to answer, starting with the life universe and everything else.
Always wondered why the world didn’t simply list unsolved problems somewhere. Universities should have a poster in each departments lecture hall and toilets, listing that subject’s 10 top problems to solve to remind students to think big. Here’s Wikipedia’s list of unsolved problems in different subjects.
Great idea, raises funds for research and also gives Mericans something to spend their extra cash on.
I remember when a welsh student named a new mineral “welshite” but fukalite takes the biscuit.
surf studies – in the uk, i ask you…
Tony Blair’s target of half our citizens should go to uni is to blame for some of this mess.
NO WAY! “David Beckham studies – Staffordshire University, UK”
According to a top-voted answer on Quora, you can hire capacity on a large communications satellite for around 200 dollars per hour – which is what big tv channels do…
“CNN, Fox or the BBC will rent 6-8MHz of satellite capacity to get video and audio back from a live news, sport or event. If it is something like a sports event then they’ll rent a few hours…You could be talking about $200 per hour or more for 8MHz.” – Bob Hannent, Innovation Architect. Satellite specialist in broadcast and telecoms.
most companies just lease usage of communications satellies, look at https://www.lyngsat.com/ to see the latest bunch of tv stations and stuff share their satellite service providers.