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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Retire Already! Are 70+ year old professors a drag?
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Professors approaching 70 who are still enamored with hanging out with students and colleagues, or even fretting about money, have an ethical obligation to step back and think seriously about quitting....
Retire Already! Are 70+ year old professors a drag?
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Professors approaching 70 who are still enamored with hanging out with students and colleagues, or even fretting about money, have an ethical obligation to step back and think seriously about quitting....
Veterans Deploy To Northeast After Superstorm Sandy
Via Drudge and NPR: Among the thousands of volunteers helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey, hundreds of military veterans have turned out to help. For this group, work like this seems to address a real need for a sense of mission. Former...
Happy Vs Meaningful Life
Via Business Insider: As psychologists zero in on the key to a good life, it's becoming clear that there are two distinct paths. A forthcoming paper by Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Vohs, Jennifer Aaker, and Emily Garbinsky in the Journal of Positive Psychology looks at...
Happy Vs Meaningful Life
Via Business Insider: As psychologists zero in on the key to a good life, it's becoming clear that there are two distinct paths. A forthcoming paper by Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Vohs, Jennifer Aaker, and Emily Garbinsky in the Journal of Positive Psychology looks at...
How to succeed in business by really trying hard
Via Business Insider: "I think Carnegie's genius was first of all, an ability to foresee how things were going to change," historian John Inghan told PBS. ANDREW CARNEGIE: Rags To Riches - Business Insider Pivotal moments according to the biographical outline: “Soon...
How to succeed in business by really trying hard
Via Business Insider: "I think Carnegie's genius was first of all, an ability to foresee how things were going to change," historian John Inghan told PBS. ANDREW CARNEGIE: Rags To Riches - Business Insider Pivotal moments according to the biographical outline: “Soon...
Give This Gutter-Cleaning Robot to Your Chore-Phobic Friend
Via Mashable: The Looj uses a rubber augur and scrappers to lift debris from the gutters and throw it on the ground. Just place it in the gutter and hit the “Auto Clean” button. You can drive it from a wireless remote from the ground and bag the debris as it drops it....