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Reduce Fleet Management Costs and Remove Complexities Involved 07-23
Reduce Fleet Management Costs and Remove Complexities InvolvedFor many businesses in a range of industries, their fleet of vehicles will be one of their most important assets. Companies rely heavily on...
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Formative Assessment: The Secret Sauce of Blended Success 07-24
Formative Assessment: The Secret Sauce of Blended SuccessA few weeks ago, a colleague emailed me about some trouble she was having with her first attempt at blended instruction. She had created some...
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The 21 Coolest ‘Internet of Things’ Gadgets You Will Want Today 07-25
I love gadgets and I am fascinated by connecting devices through the Internet of Things. I always keep a close eye on the latest developments and felt it was time to take stock and give you my list of...
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Google "Corkboard" Server, 1999. - 07-25
Google "Corkboard" Server, 1999Currently on display in 1 WestIn 1998 Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google, a web-search company, in a garage in Menlo Park,...
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Examining Knowledge Beliefs to Motivate Student Learning 07-25
Examining Knowledge Beliefs to Motivate Student Learning“I just cram for the exam and then forget everything.”“If I can just get this last paper done I am in the clear.”Comments like these make us...
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Entrepreneurship Is a Disease 07-25
Entrepreneurship Is a DiseaseWhat does it mean to be an entrepreneur? Ask 100 people this question and you’ll get at least 100 different answers. Is an entrepreneur an inventor or a CEO? Is a small...
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The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies 07-25
The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombiesIn the spring of 2008, I did a daylong stint on the Yale admissions committee. We—that is, three admissions staff, a member of the college...
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Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment 07-25
Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s EmpowermentOne self-taught artist’s journey from poverty to imaginative reinvention.By now, you know my soft spot for visionary...
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Where’s my creativity gone? 07-27
Where’s my creativity gone?It happens to the best of designers, all is going well until you reach that plateau, or that mental block where you cease to produce any creativity and think all is lost....
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Why Your Idea Is Worth Nothing Until Executed 07-27
Why Your Idea Is Worth Nothing Until ExecutedWhen many decide to start a business there seems to be a big misunderstanding about the worth of their idea. An idea is just that, until it is actually...
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Has ‘Disruptive Innovation’ Run Its Course? Not Yet…07-13
Has ‘Disruptive Innovation’ Run Its Course? Not Yet…Eonomic theories emanating from business schools do not usually draw 6,000-word takedowns in the popular press. But then, few ideas have permeated...
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Learning on the Edge: Classroom Activities to Promote Deep Learning 07-28
Learning on the Edge: Classroom Activities to Promote Deep LearningThe explosion of educational technologies in the past decade or so has led everyone to wonder whether the landscape of higher...
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Know Your Stress Type 07-28
Know Your Stress TypeNPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Healthconducted a nationwide poll in March and early April to find common sources of stress.They surveyed...
View ArticleFrom Mass Production to Mass Individualism 07-29
From Mass Production to Mass IndividualismA few weeks ago, NY Times columnist David Brooks posted an OpEd on The Evolution of Trust. The OpEd is focused on Airbnb Inc., the online platform where people...
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Motivation may explain disconnect between cognitive testing and real-life...
Photo credit: Flickr user Bryan (Creative Commons)Motivation may explain disconnect between cognitive testing and real-life functioning for older adultsCOGNITIONA psychology researcher at North...
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Glucose ‘control switch’ in the brain key to both types of diabetes 07-29
Glucose ‘control switch’ in the brain key to both types of diabetes Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism in part of the brain that is key to sensing glucose levels in the...
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Crowd funding is the Highest Form of Loyalty: Shared Destiny 07-29
Crowd funding is the Highest Form of Loyalty: Shared Destiny Harvest a thousand ideas. Above photo from popular photographer, and my friend, Thomas Hawk.Crowdfunding is the highest form of loyalty, and...
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NASA's SDO Observes a Lunar Transit 07-28
NASA's SDO Observes a Lunar TransitBy bl› This animated gif shows the path of the moon across the Solar Dynamics Observatory's field of view for this lunar transit.Image Credit: NASA/SDO teamOn July...
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Flipkart raises $1 billion to strengthen its bid to own India’s e-commerce...
Flipkart raises $1 billion to strengthen its bid to own India’s e-commerce spaceIt’s turning into quite a year for Flipkart. Today the e-commerce company from India has confirmed the much-reported...
View ArticleHumble CEOs Are Best For Business, New Study Says 07-30
Humble CEOs Are Best For Business, New Study SaysJames Collins, author of the 2001 business classic Good to Great, likes to tellthe story of Darwin E. Smith, the shy, reserved CEO of Kimberly-Clark for...
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