9 years on Mars! Curiosity rover marks another anniversary

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has now been exploring Mars for nine years. The car-sized robot launched in November 2011 and touched down inside Mars’ 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5, 2012. (The landing occurred on Aug. 6 Eastern time, but it was still Aug. 5 in California, where NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which ...

How We Teach Our Kids in a World of Accelerating Change

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Here in L.A., it’s kind of insane that a great kindergarten requires a competitive application and tuitions that exceed most colleges. I started asking myself, given the fact that most elementary schools haven’t changed in decades (maybe longer), what do I want my kids to learn? How would I reinvent elementary school during an exponential […]