The ‘Armadillo’ Car Folds Up for Easy Parking

I have been searching for an electric car and read this article and watched the ABC News video.  What a great concept!  The project was lead by Suh In-Soo, a professor at the Graduate School for Green Transportation at KAIST.  

The ‘Armadillo’ Car Folds Up for Easy Parking: SEOUL, South Korea – The new buzz in South Korea’s car industry is a micro electric car that folds in half and parks itself by a remote control app on your smartphone. “We see cars as a complicated machine. But it is now time to...

Army Medical Students March to a Different Drum -- FORT KNOX, Ky., Sept. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

I have a latent desire to attend medical school and combine this with military service.  The following article describes the experiences of two medical students at George Washington University School of Medicine and the US Army.  


Army Medical Students March to a Different Drum -- FORT KNOX, Ky., Sept. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

The Most And Least Lucrative College Majors, In 2 Graphs : Planet Money : NPR

What a wake-up call when looking at the projected earnings after getting a college degree!  I scoured the graphs looking for my college degree earnings outlook and was unable to find it.   This is a great article found on NPR and based upon research completed by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce.   Because I plan to complete an advanced degree, I found the data very valuable.  Click on the following link to read the full article.  

The Most And Least Lucrative College Majors, In 2 Graphs : Planet Money : NPR

Page One Economics - St. Louis Fed

Being from St. Louis, MO, I have a tendency to read news articles from my home town.  The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published an article that I found easy to read.  It explains the different types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment.  The graph that accompanies the article shows the civilian unemployment rate compared to the natural unemployment rate and the different recessions from 1948 to 2008.

To read the full article, Why Scarce Resources Are Sometimes Unemployed by Erin A. Yetter, Economic Education Specialist, click on the link below.

Page One Economics - St. Louis Fed