This mikrokopter is a helicopter with six blades on six arms sticking out from a central hub. Check out how it flies and how it works with a GPS:

MikroKopter – HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.

If you have an interest in aviation, don’t miss this.

No, you do not need to be a medical doctor to have a well-paying career in the health care field.

These careers are booming for two reasons: The population is aging, and people want to live as long as they can in good health, and new health care technologies add considerably to their options and your career opportunities.

[Browse our list of health care degree programs]

Begin by making up for key high school sciences you may have missed or dropped. You will need them to understand the technical side of your work. If you got poor marks, many credit science courses are available as online or continuing education, so you can better your marks, without leaving your current situation, before you apply. Keep track of volunteer work you do that promotes health, because it demonstrates your serious interest in the field.

Most fields allow you to start in an entry level position with a certificate from an accredited institution, but for career advancement, acquire an Associates or Bachelors degree. Make sure that the school you choose is accredited by the specific body responsible for that field. Online programs should usually be supplemented by interaction with patients and training in use laboratories or with medical equipment.

Health care careers in general often require shift work (nursing, for example), but with advancement and seniority, you can choose shifts you find convenient more easily.

But now let’s look at careers and their approximate salaries: Continued…

Martin Hilbert and his colleague Priscilla Lopez have calculated how many bytes of data humans have accumulated to date, going back to ancient times and including the newest electronic storage devices: a grand total of 295 exabytes.

Since there are 1,000 petabytes in an exabyte, and 1,000 terabytes in a petabyte, and 1,000 gigabyties in a terabyte, this means that humans have so far in history generated 295 trillion gigabytes of information. Think of this as trillions and trillions of 1-gig thumbdrives. Add to this that the rate of electronic storage capacity is increasing by 58 percent a year, and we have a huge data glut.

We might therefore think of higher education as charting road maps through this vast sea of information.

SOURCE: news.cnet.com

The above graph, linked to from inflationdata.com, shows how the rate at which higher education has been increasing in cost vastly outstrips the rate for everyday items. Many factors have unduly inflated the cost of higher education, not least the ready availability of government loans to fund education and thus subsidize, and even encourage, educational institutions in raising their prices.

This disparity between education inflation and ordinary inflation has now even been indexed by contrasting the CPI (consumer price index, which is based on a basket of ordinary goods) with the HEPI (higher-education price index, which is based on the cost of higher education — see commonfund.org).

All this suggests that the market for online and distance education will skyrocket in coming years as the benefit of a campus-based education recedes in the face of ever-increasing debts that students and families incur when they go the traditional campus-based route.

The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) is making grants to a handful of schools around the country to institute an Arabic language and culture curriculum at the middle school level. Arabic studies at these schools would be mandatory:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/…arabic-classes

This is creating some controversy, but it raises an interesting possibility whether Arabic studies, even at this early age, may provide exciting career opportunities down the line.

You’re off to school. You’re going to be facing many new challenges. What you don’t need is to be wasting lots of time and energy. You need to get things done quickly and efficiently. For that, you’ll need the assortment of products listed here. All of these products are electronic. We live in an electronic-digital age, and highly effective students make the most of the opportunities such products provide.

As you go through this list, you’ll find some overlap. For instance, your cell phone / SmartPhone can serve as a camera. So too, your laptop computer can play DVDs and Blu-ray. In our experience, it’s best to have dedicated units for each of the main tasks and sources of information you’ll be facing as a student. All-purpose electronics that are advertised as “doing everything” often don’t do anything particularly well. By contrast, we’ve found dedicated electronics get the job done, are easier to use, and less liable to bugs and break-downs.

Here, then, is our list of 10 must-have products: Continued…