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Comment From HS Student to Paleontologist (Score 1) 208

by JohnAGonzalez (#42690389) Attached to: Interviews: Ask What You Will of Paleontologist Jack Horner

My son just graduated from high school. He has wanted to be a paleontologist since he was 3. None of us know what is the best way to go about getting into that career field. Is there a particular course track that he should take in college? What about community colleges as a starting point? Do you even need a college degree? Are there any jobs that would set him on that track? Does he have to move to Montana from Florida for a better start?
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Submission + - Banknotes go electronic to outwit counterfeiters (newscientist.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Modern banknotes contain up to 50 anti-counterfeiting features, but adding electronic circuits programmed to confirm the note's authenticity is perhaps the ultimate deterrent, and would also help to simplify banknote tracking.

A team of German and Japanese researchers created arrays of thin-film transistors (TFTs) by carefully depositing gold, aluminium oxide and organic molecules directly onto the notes through a patterned mask, building up the TFTs layer by layer. The result is an undamaged banknote containing around 100 organic TFTs, each of which is less than 250 nanometres thick and can be operated with voltages of just 3V. Such small voltages could be transmitted wirelessly by an external reader, such as the kind that communicates with the RFID tags found on many products

NewScientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.200-banknotes-go-electric-to-outwit-counterfeiters.html

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