22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
We usually think of international skills as being applied when we head to other countries. But in fact, global skills will be more important than ever even if you do…
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We usually think of international skills as being applied when we head to other countries. But in fact, global skills will be more important than ever even if you do…
Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans are willing or able to serve. Source: Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans willing or able…
Interesting figures – overall, just under 15% of the U.S. population was born elsewhere but note this: About 1 in 5 Americans between the ages of 40 and 64 was…
Almost all U.S. population growth over next 20 years will come from immigration, and after 20 years, 100% will come from immigration. Over the next three decades, the report predicts…
The optics on this look sort of bad: The California Air Resources Board recently approved a rule to require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse…
CNN explains that experts say the population is not collapsing but then goes on to say the opposite in most of their article: Globally, the fertility rate has not “collapsed,”…
At first glance, this sounds good – high upfront costs but dramatic savings in operational/variable costs: From the PGE site, we learn that diesel buses are about $90K to buy…
Automation will place increasingly large roles in fast food services: Two Panera Bread locations in upstate New York are testing artificial intelligence technology that takes drive-thru orders. Source: Panera Bread…
Many companies are seeking to do this, including the announced SpaceX/T-Mobile partnership: Satellite companies are rushing to connect our phones and eliminate dead zones. Source: The space race for our…
This is very cool: if you can funnel enough water volume into a pipe, and then run that pipe into a smaller pipe, thereby increasing the water pressure inside, and…