via MSNBC – What’s on your mind as you drive down the road? Cars of the future may tap into those thoughts in order to keep you and our roads safer. The technology builds on brain-machine interface research pioneered at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland that allows wheelchairs users to get around using their minds.… [Continue Reading]
And then there were eight: Baseball’s post season
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The Major League Baseball season starts in April with 30 teams and ends in September with the final eight. It takes five months and 162 games to decide who gets to the post-season. While football has increased television ratings, over the last few years, and the Super Bowl has almost become a national holiday, there… [Continue Reading]
Racial lines blurring in the US?
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Latinos Have Arrived: Media projects that explore America’s emerging majority leave the community’s pathologies at the door
09/30/2011 By 1 Comment
Minutes after Academy Award nominated actor Terrence Howard watched a screening of The Latino List, a film which debuted last night on HBO, he told me, feeling very inspired by the compelling documentary, “what I loved most (about the film) was that there were no victims! The stories were unfiltered, honest and unapologetically Latino.” The documentary, by photographer and director… [Continue Reading]
The importance of growing up bilingual
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via Reach Hispanic – Like many first-generation Hispanics I grew up in a bilingual household. I had the benefit of learning English at school and Spanish at home. I never really understood how much of a benefit I received by growing up bilingual. I didn’t have to take any classes, buy any software or get a… [Continue Reading]