March 2012
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Hiring a Coach in Pursuit of an Advanced Degree →
“Professionals 25 and older are seeking out independent education consultants to strengthen their applications for selective degree programs.”
We have been anticipating this trend — not only to get into school, but to complete the degree
February 2012
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via basava)
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined....”
– H.D Thoreau (via basava)
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The Adjunct Project →
Very revealing crowd sourced spreadsheet on adjunct pay, started by a writing instructor. Check it out; contribute if you are an adjunct.
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What Men Want, Then and Now →
Education and intelligence took a big jump; so did the importance of good looks.
“The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those...”
– Albert Einstein (via elige)
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
The Choice: Current College Students Struggle to... →
Instead of considering only tuition when choosing a college, prospective students would be wise to research a school’s history of tuition increases.
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Academically Adrift: The News Gets Worse →
“For those who are dissatisfied with the methods or findings of Academically Adrift, who chafe at the way it has been absorbed by the politicians and commentariat, there is only one recourse: Get started on research of your own. Higher education needs a much broader examination of how and whether it succeeds in educating students. Some of that research will doubtless become fodder for...
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Being Alone Together →
More on the pros and cons of living alone…has affluence and social media made it easier and more desirable to live alone? Or are we losing our ability to be intimate and share space?
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Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies... →
“We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than family income, to one today in which family income appears more determinative of educational success than race…”
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The Upside of Dyslexia →
Wow, am feeling very hip at the moment — seems that introverts and those who live alone are actually okay (see previous posts).
Now it seems dylexia is not so bad after all. And let’s not forget the PDD—NOS.
It takes all kinds……and I like that a lot.
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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Living Alone →
“All signs suggest that living alone will become even more common in the future, at every stage of adulthood and in every place where people can afford a place of their own.”
Wow, never thought of myself as a trendsetter, but I have been doing this for a long long time.
mindcontrolfrick asked: Hey - nice blog! Hope you don't mind if I use some of your content, they're great. New follower, can you please follow me back?
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Is GPS All In Our Heads? The Power of Mind-Maps →
Ha. This totally vindicates my love of maps and my refusal to get a GPS.
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An Introverts Guide to Networking →
Yes, we all have to do it sometime. Here are some tips:
Learn to appreciate your introversion preference
Prioritize and take time to re-energize
Don’t be afraid to reach out via a handshake or social network
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“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to...”
– Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
yicorsoblog24 asked: Hey there - cool blog you got going! Hope you don't mind if I use some of your content later down the road, great stuff. New follower, can you please follow me back?
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Creative Flow: How Yoga Can Spark Your Creativity →
“What I’ve discovered, actually, is that my yoga practice shifted my writing quite dramatically—and not towards rainbows and flowers, either. Working with the subtler sensations in my body, cultivating mindfulness, meditating—all this has created space in my writing for me to get out of my hamster-wheel head and write from deeper places.”
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“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see,...”
– Joan Didion
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“These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
January 2012
38 posts
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have →
world-shaker:
My favorite was the Bonus #11:
11. Copyright and Citing Sources - students need to understand copyright laws and rules, how to cite a resource, and how to integrate someone else’s work into their’s properly. Taking the Mystery out of Copyright Citation Help
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Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online →
Moving beyond peer-review and citations….maybe.
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The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet... →
Thank you.
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With Age, Men May Lose Thinking Ability Faster... →
More fodder for gender wars…
Ultimately relates to theme of my other blog on yoga — much seems to come down to staying healthy both physically and mentally.
“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill,” he said. “And you can take the...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tenured-professor-departs-stanford-u-hoping-to-teach-500000-students-at-online-start-up/35135
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Stanford Takes Online Education to a New Academic... →
“Over the years, Stanford has launched dozens of disruptive technologies into the world, but now administrators and professors seem to agree that the school may be about to disrupt itself. This semester Stanford will put 17 interactive courses online for free.”
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Colleges enthused as iTunes classes go live →
world-shaker:
Worth highlighting:
Anyone with an iPad or iPhone can use the app and access the free classes on iTunes U. Having this new standalone app should be a boon to users and educators. The Inside Higher Ed website is highlighting material from Harrisburg Community College, where there are free courses in differential equations and astronomy. It’s the first iTunes U offering from a...
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Math study provides insight to chess gender gap →
The findings of a new study about mathematics may explain why there are so few women among the chess elite. It concluded that cultural factors, not biological ones, are the reasons why boys outperform girls in math.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus: For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it [censored] wanted to. That's the [censored] reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Mr. T.: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Molly Yard: It was a hen!
Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.
Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.
Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
Othello: Jealousy.
Dr. Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.
Mrs. Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.
Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.
Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.
Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.
Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter.)
Hamlet: That is not the question.
Donne: It crosseth for thee.
Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.
Constable: To get a better view.
Yeats: She was following the Faeries that sang to her to come away with them from the dull, bucolic comfort of the farmyard to the waters and the wild.
Shelley: 'Tis a metaphor for the pursuits of man: though 'twas deemed an extraordinary occurrence at the time, still it brought little to bear on the great scheme of time and history, and was ultimately fruitless and forgotten.
Tolkien: Chickens are respectable folk, and well thought of. They never go on any adventures or do anything unexpected. One fine spring day, as the chicken wandered contentedly around the farmyard, clucking and pecking and enjoying herself immensely, there appeared a Wizard and thirteen Dwarves who were in need of a chicken to share in their adventure. Reluctantly she joined their party, and with them crossed the road into the great Unknown, muttering about how rude the Dwarves were to take her away on such short notice, without even giving her time to brush her feathers or fetch her hat.
Netanyahu: He didn't cross the road, you anti-Semite. Stop delegitimizing Israel.
Bashar: It never happened, no such thing can ever happen...
Gingrich: Chickens are invented birds...
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A Free College Education for All? →
“A (nearly) free college education for everybody is not only possible, but likely. But it will be a bare-bones education, and many students will want to pay for something more. Here is one possibility: College faculty won’t get paid much for teaching, but they can still earn a living as tutors, research mentors, coaches, team-leaders, advisers, counselors. These skills cannot be computerized...
A Sharper Mind -- Middle Age and Beyond →
As it turns out, one essential element of mental fitness has already been identified. “Education seems to be an elixir that can bring us a healthy body and mind throughout adulthood and even a longer life” …… For those in midlife and beyond, a college degree appears to slow the brain’s aging process by up to a decade, adding a new twist to the cost-benefit analysis of higher education...
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How To Be More Interesting (in 10 simple steps --... →
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Solitude is out of fashion: The Rise of the New... →
“Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies… They’re extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature.”
Well, we could have...
