Last minute geek

1. Thrift Store Shoppers Buy $20,000 Worth of Vintage NASA Flight Suits for $1.20
(Italiano/gizmodo)

The potential of striking gold at a thrift store can be very much dependent on where that store is located. Given NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is just an hour away, a pair of college students in Orlando ...

2. Missouri high school requiring students to hand over biometric data
(English/Neowin)

Excelsior Springs High School in Missouri is the latest educational institution to require fingerprints from students. It hopes to track the students as it tries to implement a new learning regime. Read ...

3. Students pay $1.20 for 5 vintage NASA flight suits at thrift store
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Talia Rappa and Skyler Ashworth spotted a nondescript box at a Florida thrift store's going-out-of-business sale. They found five NASA flight suits, worth tens of thousands of dollars, and paid just $1.20 ...

4. ASU students live with Echo Dots while learning voice-control tech
(English/engadget)

Engineering students at Arizona State University can opt into an interesting new program meant to give students access to voice-controlled technology while they learn about it in the classroom. Students ...

5. Less than 10% of those completing UK A-Level computing courses this year were girls
(English/Neowin)

As UK students get their A-Level results it has been revealed that just 9.8% of those completing computing courses were girls. Computing courses saw fewer people than expected during the last year. Read ...

6. This guy had a stroke after white supremacists doused him in torch fuel and struck him in the neck with torches
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... This, despite having already been doused in torch fuel and struck with torches by fascist thugs as he and a group of 25 students were surrounded by the alt-right mob at the base of the statue on Saturday ...

7. Students Race Driverless Cars in Germany in Formula Student Competition
(English/ieespectrum)

First batch of student-built driverless cars choose safety over speed Read all

8. Kids who attend online charters perform like traditional students who miss the whole year
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes released this study in 2015, comparing the outcomes for students enrolled in online charter schools with comparable students (controlled for grade ...

9. Eugene Burger, the Magician Philosopher
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... vast network of loving friends, students and fans all the world over. The impact of Eugene's contribution to the art of magic is preeminent. His massive body of work shifted the consciousness of magicians, ...

10. Indian Chicken Gravy - Who's Hungry
(English/instructables)

... This recipe is specially developed for bachelors, students, and new cooks. This goes well... By: kavyamaniyan13 Continue Reading » Read all  ...

11. School to parents: a $100 donation gets your kids to the front of the lunch line
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Parents of students enrolled in Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Polk County, Florida got an orientation package offering their kids the right to skip to the front of the lunch line in exchange for a ...

12. A look at how China's tech ambitions have grown, as Trump pushes for review of China's trade and intellectual property practices (Javier C. Hernández/New York Times)
(English/Techmeme)

... — In Chinese schools, students learn that the United States became a great nation partly by stealing technology from Britain. Read all  ...

13. Back to School Gift Guide 2017
(English/ChipChic)

I’d say it’s back to school time, but with the way marketing departments work now, it’s been back to school time since school got out. We’ve decided to do students a solid and ...

14. So the Alt-Right is coming to your campus
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

The Southern Poverty Law Center's guide, The Alt-Right on Campus: What Students Need to Know basically advises you to network with everyone on your campus who isn't a closet Nazi, meet with the Young ...

15. T-shirt Totebag
(English/instructables)

... both the sew and no sew version of this project with many students at my after school Maker club. I... By: MakerQueen Continue Reading » Read all  ...

16. Automatic Sextant (Sun / Moon) Finder
(English/instructables)

This project is meant to record angles from strongest light around and display them on the LCD. The application of the project is for celestial navigation, for nautical students or just for fun if you ...

17. A roadmap for AI policy questions
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Robot law pioneer Ryan Calo (previously) has published a "roadmap" for an "artificial intelligence policy...to help policymakers, investors, technologists, scholars, and students understand the contemporary ...

18. GuitarBot
(English/instructables)

The GuitarBot started as the collaborative work of three University of Delaware professors: Dustyn Roberts, Troy Richards, and Ashley Pigford. The project has been worked on by teams of their students ...

19. In the tabloids: Obama’s secret bunker and a stool-pigeon parrot
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... landed on the roof of a South Florida family, according to the ‘National Examiner,’ which also brings us the story of CPR instructor David Knowles who had to tell his students how to save his life when ...

20. Dozens of people arrested for wearing "hero" T-shirts in Turkey
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... orange jumpsuits. According to Turkey Purge, those arrested range from factory and hotel workers to university students. Many of those detained claimed that they had not been aware of the word’s meaning. Some ...

21. Facebook shutters its teen-focused social app Lifestage
(English/engadget)

... to connect with other students in their school or schools n... Read all  ...

22. The best apps and streaming services for students
(English/engadget)

It's true that most of Engadget's back-to-school guide has comprised, well, gadgets, but as every nerd knows, a piece of hardware is only as good as the software it runs. That's why, to ...

23. Caltech astrophysics professor who harassed women has resigned
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Christian D. Ott, a tenured professor of theoretical astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, has resigned in the wake of an investigation that found he had harassed two students. From ...

24. The best audio gear for students
(English/engadget)

There's a strong case to be made for investing in quality audio gear at any period in your adult life. For college students in particular, though, a good set of speakers can be icebreakers as much ...