Twelve Weeks To A Six-Figure Job

They’re called coding boot camps, and they’ll have employable in the software and programming development business in a lot less time than a traditional four-year program.

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What? The River That Carved the Grand Canyon Doesn’t Reach the Ocean Anymore?

Chalk it up as one of those interesting and somewhat unbelievable facts, the Colorado river — the one that carved the Grand Canyon — no longer reaches the Sea of Cortez. Well, it didn’t until earlier this year when a pulse of water was released in hopes of revitalizing the lower delta.

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WATCH: 3D Printing Lets Disabled Dog Run for the First Time

Seeing is believing, and this is a great example of the changes technology will have on our lives.

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Learn: Why is it Harder to Drive Backwards?

When you can get a beautifully simple physics lesson wrapped in an entertaining, short video that explains a phenomenon we’ve all encountered… we’ll always share it here.  

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Star Trek’s Universal Translator is Now a Real Thing

It’s technology coming from Microsoft and being introduced through Skype. If you follow the link below, you’ll see two videos that show it in action.

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Viewing The World Through a Good-Data Filter

The value of good data shall not be underestimated, but equally important is having the tools to make sense of it. This presentation by a Swedish statistician will alter your preconceptions about the world we live in, and leave you with a refreshingly hopeful take on the state of the world and the direction we’ve

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The Science is in… Men are More Likely to Be Idiots

A statistical study of the world’s most idiotic deaths suggests men are more likely to suffer from a sort of fatal idiot syndrome. The science is real, so if you’re a man… you’ve been warned.

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Tips for Improving Your Information Diet

The timing of this article is very apropos. After all, better information is what the Minot Voice is all about.

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Slow Motion Awesome: Raindrop Impacts on Sand

There are a lot of everyday events that look very different when you slow them down — a lot, but this short video on a rain drop hitting landing in sand is particularly impressive. The video was recorded by chemical engineers at the University of Minnesota researching…. wait for it…. the types of craters that water drops

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Economic Lessons from Marathon Finishers?

When we set goals, we like nice round numbers… like finishing a marathon in under four hours. Often times, these goals are valuable motivators, but they also occasionally lead us towards bad decisions and outcomes. Read this article to inform your own behavior for the better.

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Documentary Makers Finally Produce Worthwhile Movie

Perhaps there’s a bit of irreverence in our title, but it’s all in good fun — which seems fitting for the movie you’re about to preview. You’ll have to wait until the new year, but it looks like it will be released to video on demand  just in time to help you get over your

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Sitting Bad, Standing Good. It Doesn’t Matter if You Excercise

If you spend a lot of time sitting throughout the day, it’s likely to have some undesirable outcomes. A new study suggests sitting leads to changes in our chromosomes, which causes problems when our cells divide. Watch the video here, then get up, stand up, stand up for your self.

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Women: Learn How Often You Should See Your OBGYN

The accepted standard used to be see your OBGYN once a year, but improved testing accuracy has allowed that standard to change in some cases. Learn how often you should be seeing your doctor in this informative report form Valley News Live.

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Heading to Vegas Anytime Soon?

The odds are pretty good that you’ll get hoodwinked by unscrupulous cab driver. Get informed, get a laugh, and get a clear picture of government bureaucracy doing some of its finest work all in this one article.

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Hall & Oats: Live From a Traveling Van

There are a lot of things that might make a great performance, and one of them certainly should be the circumstances and environment. So how about a traveling van on the highway? This video from Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers is part of a regular video series that has brought a lot of notoriety to

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Samurai versus BB Gun

Ridiculous things on the Internet, it’s part of the P.B.A. mission. What you’re about to see doesn’t really seem possible… but there it is.

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