#FedFeed – USPTO reaches out to kids on National STEM Day

Welcome to the #FedFeed, a daily collection of federal ephemera gathered from the internet and presented for your enjoyment.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shared its website specifically to reach out to children to teach them about patents for National STEM Day. It’s actually pretty interesting. Especially the Cool IP section.

Check out #USPTO kids page for inventor trading cards & more on National #STEM/#STEAM Day: https://t.co/uiofTXdSVl https://t.co/n8T16cAiV4

— USPTO (@uspto) November 8, 2016

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In other news, there’s a twitter account devoted solely to replacing the words “open data” with “Taylor Swift” in headlines and social media posts. I discovered this when it tweeted one of my own stories:

.@USDA turns nutritional data into Taylor Swift https://t.co/a4fNfgtfXn via @FedNewsRadio

— OpenDataTaylorSwift (@t_s_institute) November 8, 2016

Some of them are pretty hilarious. This may be the best one:

What’s holding back #TaylorSwift? LACK OF STANDARDS, that’s what! @samehlinger‘s summary of #Data2016 report: https://t.co/dyHF42F82h

— OpenDataTaylorSwift (@t_s_institute) November 8, 2016