For the K-12 set, summer vacation means pool and beach time, family vacations, sleeping late, the absence of routine and maybe a laid-back summer job at a camp or the grocery store. But for college students, summers can quickly turn into study abroad opportunities, internships, and research apprenticeships on campus.
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The Summer of Goals: How to Spend Your Vacation Wisely
In a digital age, information of all kinds on all subjects is readily available with a few clicks of a mouse or keys typed. While there are many advantages to this, it also means that information about individuals is easily accessible to just about anyone who wants to get it– including potential employers. You will do yourself a big favor by working to manage your online reputation before it ever becomes an issue with finding a job and maybe even help the web to work with you instead of against you in your career
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Learning to Manage Your Online Reputation Is Key to Job Hunting Success
the 3rd annual San Luis Obispo Greek Festival! It is a busy week, but here is something fun to read: Cholesterol levels might be controlled by brain circuitry “When your stomach growls and you have the urge to reach for the nearest snack, it is, in a way, your tummy talking. Those signals are in part sparked by the gut-based hunger hormone ghrelin, which blocks certain receptors in the brain, telling your body when it is time to eat.” iPhone 4 “Steve Jobs’s keynote address at yesterday’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is now available in its entirety on Apple’s website.”
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reading for finals week June 8th 2010
College is a great way to improve your life but it’s not for everyone. With hard work and determination you can be successful even without a college degree .
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100 Famously Successful People Who Skipped College
“San Luis Obispo Greekfest June 2010″ Here are some of the readings I found interesting for today: Simple Urine test for Autism “The researchers behind the study, from Imperial College London and the University of South Australia, suggest that their findings could ultimately lead to a simple urine test to determine whether or not a young child has autism.” a sense of humor keeps you healthy “Intelligence Test Svebak said that it has been fifteen years since researchers first attempted to evaluate the effect of sense of humor on life expectancy.
Waiting for the Greek Festival to begin in San Luis Obispo! Here are a few intriguing stories that I found to be worthwhile reading: Judge says brain scans not acceptable for detecting lies “In the first decision of its kind, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that functional magnetic resonance imaging shouldn’t be permitted in the courtroom as a new type of lie detector. U.S
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my readings for June 5th 2010
Advanced Placement (AP) classes are designed to better prepare high school students for post-secondary education by allowing them to pursue college level classes at their schools. After completing the class, students can register and pay to take the AP exam.
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All About Advanced Placement (AP) Classes and Exams
Wonderful view of Baseball in Boston Here’s some of what I found interesting reading today: questioning coffee affects “Tests on 379 individuals who abstained from caffeine for 16 hours before being given either caffeine or a placebo and then tested for a range of responses showed little variance in levels of alertness.” Understanding Potassium Channels “Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have made a significant advance in understanding how potassium channels, which permit the flow of electric currents central to many of the body’s biological processes, control the flow of these currents.”
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reading list for June 4th 2010
“Here I am at the 'HOME” of the Boston Cream Pie!” Here are some of the things I am reading for today: X-TREME eating 2010 “With close to 30 percent of young Americans too heavy to join the military, you’d think that restaurants would at least stop introducing new heavyweight items.” What happens when we become angry? “Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine system. In addition, changes in cerebral activity also occur, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes…” Comparing income with peers causes unhappiness Researchers analysing data from a Europe-wide survey found three-quarters of those asked thought it important to compare their incomes with others
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readings for June 2nd 2010
We’ve all had terrible teachers we’d like to forget, and fabulous teachers who made a notable difference in our education or in our personal development. Whether your favorite teacher was from elementary school or online college , you probably also have a couple of great memories from the teachers you’ve watched on TV and in movies. Here are 10 of our favorite TV teachers that we wish we’d had in real life
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10 TV Teachers We All Wish We Had
the APS Observor caught this nice picture of William James and Me! (posted by iPad) The Association for Psychological Sciences Conference is over for this year but has left a powerful impression! Here are a few of the pictures we took while at the convention and in Boston! Here are a couple of articles that I thought you might enjoy: Empathy:college students don’t have as much as they used too ‘The study, presented in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, analyzes data on empathy among almost 14,000 college students over the last 30 years. “We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000,” said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research. “College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait.”‘ Researcher decodes Rembrandt’s magic! “In the study, published in the current issue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s arts and sciences journal Leonardo , UBC researcher Steve DiPaola argues that Rembrandt may have pioneered a technique that guides the viewer’s gaze around a portrait, creating a special narrative and “calmer” viewing experience.”
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readings for May 31st 2010
Vishal Jha (17), a Delhi University (DU) aspirant from Lucknow, reached the Capital on Friday evening so that he could buy the centralised admission form on Saturday, complete all formalities and return to his hometown the same day. But he couldnt, as things didnt go as per his plans.
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Time to accept forms online
Alan MacRae/for the Citizen Plymouth State University President Sara Jayne Steen, talks about the growing number of partnerships between the university and other institutions, especially two-year public and private colleges.
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Changing needs, economy forcing colleges to adapt
UW-Stout senior Sean Larson won a national title in the discus Saturday, the final day of the NCAA Division III outdoor championships in Berea, Ohio.
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Local colleges roundup: Stout’s Larson captures national title
Researchers develop computer program that can identify sarcasm online. Computer program – Education – Colleges and Universities – Sarcasm – Departments
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Yeah Right… Computer Program Flags Sarcasm
UW-Eau Claire senior Chris Wirtz won a national title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on the second day of the NCAA Division III outdoor championships Friday in Berea, Ohio.
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Local colleges: Wirtz wins national title
HOBOKEN, N.J., May 28 /PRNewswire/ — A new survey by eLearners.com (http://www.elearners.com), a web resource of EducationDynamics, which connects prospective students with online degrees and sponsors Project Working Mom, found that nearly one in four Americans (24 percent) believe women with a college degree are better mothers than those without.
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Does a College Degree Make You a Better Mother? Nearly a Quarter of Americans Say Yes, According to New Research from …
UW-Eau Claire senior and Elk Mound graduate Hayley Suckow placed third in the women’s pole vault competition at the NCAA Division III track and field national championships Thursday at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
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Local colleges: Suckow takes third at nationals
opening of the Association for Psychological Sciences convention – Boston 2010 Here are a few pictures from the opening of the 2010 conference ! On the bottom is a sea of students, researchers and professors studying the first day poster session; next on the upper right, the legendary ( I believe she might hate that title) Janet Taylor Spence reading off the winners of the award that bears her name; and finally, on the upper left is a picture of me at the Cengage Booth that displays my 2nd edition of Discovering Biological Psychology! Come on by the booth, we can chat and I am even giving away a free — highly collectible — mouse pad! Stay tuned!
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A.P.S. Convention in Boston 2010 going strong!
Here I am at the Association for Psychological Science Conference in Boston getting my picture taken with William James! If you didn’t make plans to join us in Boston , try to come next year, if you made it to the conference drop by the Cengage Booth or our presentation to say ‘hello!’ Love to meet you all! Here is what I am reading today! Get that song out of my head (earworms!) “In most cases, earworms will disappear after a few minutes. In some cases, earworms can last hours or even days…
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my reading list for May 27th, 2010