Peru to try out Windows on XO laptops

Peru is for the past 10 years in a positive economical way. Low inflation, growing exports and each time more employment. The signs of macroeconomic factors is positive.
But something is still going very bad: education.
So I'm very happy to see that Microsoft is playing a role at least that will increase awareness of the importance of modern education for everybody. And of course to make a wake up call to the private Schools to evaluate if their education is including modern technologies as well.
Read an article about that effort in News.com

Educative videos

One of the great things of our times is the possibility to get a lot of great and valuable information for free using the Internet. That motivates many persons to use the chance to make posts on blogs to make faster the transfer of that information.
I just discovered 180 videos posted by National Geographic that I think are really worth to see.

Hurricane Data Portal for Scientists, Educators, and Application Users

The NASA launched a new portal with animations and scientific information about many hurricanes. The animations are based on satellite data. To see the hurricane viewer visit: http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/HurricaneViewer.shtml
But don't loose the opportunity to check the rest of the hurricane portal because there is a lot of information, pictures, videos and news regarding the topic. Really impressive!
One video: http://www.nasa.gov/mpeg/151029main_a003362.mpeg