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Business…

HBR on Hiring Humanities Majors

6 Apr 20116 Apr 2011
Second Road's Tony Golsby-Smith writes for a Harvard Business Review guest blog, "People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry, or Cezanne's paintings, say, have learned to play with…
Brain…

Well Manicured Writing

5 Apr 2011
  What is it about a torn fingernail that demands to be torn, bitten, or sanded smooth? Why can't a loose tooth or burned palate be ignored?   We seem…
Academic Writing…

Bilingual Brain Advantage

4 Apr 20114 Apr 2011
During the decade politicians were banning bilingual education, I was in graduate school studying linguistics, including language acquisition--even bilingual language acquisition--and wishing we could all have bilingual (or trilingual) education.…
Business…

Earth Hour

26 Mar 201126 Mar 2011
Tonight cities around the globe will observe an hour of darkness. My resident young astronomer requests that we do this every night all night. Here's the Earth Hour video. And check…
Blogging…

Some Lawyers Can Write

21 Mar 2011
If you've ever wondered how privacy issues would be handled on Krypton with its x-ray vision, or whether the statute of limitations applies in cases of time travel or suspended…
Creativity…

Friday Flick: Infinity Elephants

18 Mar 201119 Mar 2011
Meet Vi Hart "mathemusician" and infinitely creative. (I wonder what she was like as a kindergartner.) Here's one of her math doodle games.
Business…

Rogue Phone

9 Mar 201112 Mar 2011
Today I ran my cell phone through the wash. It's my business phone, and there were also major family coordination maneuvers happening tonight, so getting my phone dried and back…
Change the World…

The Poetry of Music

7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011
I'm just home from a university choir concert, aptly named "Waxing Poetic." Several well-trained choirs from Arizona State University prepared sacred and humorous works, performed in a sacred space, and…
Business…

Friday Flick: Covey on the Talking Stick

4 Mar 20117 Mar 2011
Could we pass the talking stick around the world? Here's Stephen R. Covey introducing the idea. And remember that writing allows you to speak without interruption--and without others unwittingly changing…
Change the World…

You Can’t Want It More than They Do

2 Mar 2011
A dear friend often reminds me: "You can't want it more than they do!" How often have I campaigned for someone's results so relentlessly, I've forgotten whose fight it was.…
Change the World…

Stories from College Drop-In Steve Jobs

1 Mar 201110 Mar 2011
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have…
Brain…

My Students’ Best Advice

28 Feb 2011
My students are in finals week. I asked for advice to pass along to future students, and they all said, DON'T FALL BEHIND! They sound even more adamant than I…

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