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Improving the gene pool, wood computers, aging civil service Archives

Improving the gene pool, wood computers, aging civil service

Improving the gene pool

Match low-earning, socially adept teachers with high-earning, socially challenged engineers. Good for the teaching profession, good for family income, probably a good mix for the gene pool.

"Teachers (heart) teachers," joannejacobs.com, May 2, 2006

Wood computers

Wood! It grows on trees! It's the most common building material in the world, it can be harvested sustainably, it's beautiful, it's nice to touch and look at, and it's completely ignored in consumer electronics.

But in the past few weeks, we've seen quite a few new electronic devices housed in wood, and so we went on a search. A long search, it turned out, for all the best, coolest and most useful products in wooden computing.

"Wooden Computing," by Hank Green, ecogeek, May 1, 2006 (hat tip boingboing)

Aging civil service

The government will soon need recruits to help it ride out a coming wave of retirements. At the same time, it wants to hang on to its experienced hands for as long as possible.
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About 60 percent of the 1.8 million civil service employees will be eligible to retire in the next 10 years and 40 percent of them will leave, based on the government's past experience with retirements, Springer said. She noted that 90 percent of federal executives will be eligible to retire in the next decade.

"Objective: Replace Retirees," by Stephen Barr, The Washington Post, May 2, 2006

May 2, 2006 06:47 AM

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