cork tree to cork board

The cork has been used as a traditional stopper for wine bottles for centuries. Its transition to the popular Corkboard for notices or newsletters is less than a hundred years old. Cork is the bark of the cork oak tree found in southwestern Europe, especially…

Top 5 Tech-Savvy Universities

Many students have asked us which are the best engineering and computer science schools. Using a weighted average of faculty resources, technology grants, class size, and student grades, we have developed the following list to help guide students and parents in the admissions process. The…

School sentence, correct or incorrect

In the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment to the Constitution, titled “Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression” states the following: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise of itself; or that restricts freedom of speech or…

What is Liferay?

Liferay is a free and open source business portal, primarily used to enable corporate intranets and extranets. It is also described as a web application framework or content management framework. It has all the features that a website can offer to its users. It is…

Coffee culture in the United States

It wasn’t until I moved to the US that I started drinking coffee regularly and became what in the Netherlands they call ‘koffieleut’, which literally translates to ‘coffee society’. Although the average European drinks more coffee per year than the average American, the cultural significance…