after 3 monthes of use, I still love the iPad! Here are a few readings for today: can you ask a pig if a glass is half full? “Experts from the university’s School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development have shown for the first time that a pig’s mood mirrors how content he is, highlighting that pigs are capable of complex emotions which are directly influenced by their living conditions.” the real cost of college texbooks! “ Why do new college textbooks cost so much

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readings in psychology for july 28th 2010

When I finally reached my goal weight of 135 lbs. (thank you Jenny Craig !), actually settling out to 131, in August of 2007, I was thrilled to join the National Weight Control Registry run by Rena Wing of Brown University and James Hill of the University of Colorado. I was so impressed by all the success stories of the people on the Registry, and felt honored and humbled to join them.

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Starting Year #3 on the National Weight Control Registry

No, I only WISH I was golfing at St. Andrews in Scotland! CLICK on the picture to see St. Andrews today! Here a couple of fun reads for today: mind meld enables good conversation! “Why does human conversation come so easily

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my readings in psychology for july 27th 2010

CLICK on picture above to check out what happened this year at Comic Con! comic con toys to thrill “SAN DIEGO — Get ready to seriously spoil your inner child, because Comic-Con International is here and so are the exclusive toys. This year’s limited-edition offerings range from a gigantic plush doll to a bobblehead of a serial killer, a fanboy action figure, and the perfect Christmas gift for your stingy boss. These made our heads spin as we tried our best to not check out the Hawaii Five-0 hula girls.” iPad joins the Academia this fall “The iPad is about to have its academic chops put to the test this fall in a number of programs around the country.

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readings in psychology for july 26th 2010

One of the promo pictures from the upcoming Harry Potter series “Deathly Hollows”. I remember when we had to buy books for every member of the family when the next installment came out! You see, no one wanted to wait

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readings in psychology for july 25th 2010

All throughout college you and your friends probably talked about how you couldn’t wait to graduate so that you could make some real money, live in a decent apartment and get to zone out during the weekends instead of studying. But once you graduate, if you’re lucky enough to find a job, you quickly realized that putting in long hours as a new associate — with lame pay — won’t get you a swanky apartment or fancy dinners just yet. If you moved to a new city away from friends and family, especially, you’re probably missing your college days like a new puppy who cries all night, even with an alarm clock for a pillow

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Breaking Up With College: How to Let Go After You Graduate

two pictures I adapted from the Harry Potter series for the bulletin board outside my Cal Poly Office CLICK ON the photo to see the trailer for the 'deathly hollows' segment! Here are a few stories that I found interesting today: teens using digital drugs to get high “ Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy.

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readings in psychology for july 23rd 2010

These days, you can learn just about anything online, and a new language is no exception. Whether you’re preparing for travel, international business, or just want to know how to speak a certain language, there’s so much you can do to support your education online. Here are just some of the ways you can find language learning on the Internet.

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How to Learn a New Language Online

Most college students use the library for studying or sleeping, but the people on this list had other ideas. Some of them were committing harmless pranks, and some were just animals looking to start a new life. Whatever the cause, they all wound up doing some very strange things in libraries

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10 Strangest Things Ever to Happen In a Library

by Laura Milligan Whether you’re one face in 300 in an introductory course at a large university, trying to boost your grade and level of participation in a small seminar class, or are trying to connect with your professor in an online course, racking up extra brownie points is a worthwhile endeavor.

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Easy Ways to Earn Brownie Points With Your Professor

It all seems so simple in the movies: You have an idea, you implement the idea, you ruthlessly eliminate the competition, you get rich. From comedies to crime dramas, there’s a pretty established route to success in movies, something so basic it seems they should teach it at college

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10 Most Brilliant Businessmen in Movie History

Even with the advent of internet radio and the countless other media outlets available, the college radio station is alive and well. Since the early days of radio, colleges have been a beacon in the industry. These stations are not fueled by generating revenue; rather, they are designed to give students a voice

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The Role of the College Radio Station

n this list, we’ll review fictional fashion icons who inspired movie adaptations as well as the general public with their flair for the dramatic, their representation of the times, and their love of art, color and personal expression.

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Top 10 Fictional Fashion Icons in Film and Literature

You're lucky enough to spend a whole summer abroad — whether it's to study or just travel the world alone. As a college student, you probably don't need very many luxuries to get by and will probably lodge in budget-friendly youth hostels, sometimes sleeping ten or even twenty to a room. Living in cramped quarters

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Protect Your Identity During a Summer Abroad

Most of us live for the weekends and vacations, and if you're a college student, you belong to the one single demographic in this country that gets the longest break each year: a ridiculously long summer vacation. Still, a lot of American college students end up taking summer school, whether to satisfy a common curriculum

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Today’s roundtable was organized in collaboration with TiE Delhi, and had a special emphasis on the online education sector with three out of the five entrepreneurs presenting education businesses. Ankur Mehra and his associate Aditya started off by introducing GuruVantage . Ankur and Aditya have determined that training managers at various Indian companies need help with vetting the quality …

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Strategy Roundtable: Online Education Startups

Online university to award more than $12,000 in scholarships and prizes for winning entries

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Western Governors University Enlists Students to Create TV Commercial

As if prospective students don’t have enough on their plates when it comes to choosing between the private and public universities or the community colleges, the thought of distance-learning programs and online colleges are added into the mix. But with the older, more prestigious schools rearing their authoritative heads, how can online schools possibly compete? At

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Positive Outlook for Online Degree Earners

In traditional Greek fashion, a lamb is prepared on a spit at the Greek Festival in San Luis Obispo Here are a few things that I found interesting today: for the first time, computer intelligence predicts human visual interest “ Scientists have just come several steps closer to understanding change blindness — the well studied failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them — with new research that used a computer-based model to predict what types of changes people are more likely to notice.” experience shapes our brain throughout adulthood “ScienceDaily (June 16, 2010) — The adult brain, long considered to be fixed in its wiring, is in fact remarkably dynamic.

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readings for June 17th in psychology

We have been very fortunate in the past few years to have experienced few glitches in our technology at home. Yes, there was the occasional hard drive crash, but we have learned to back up everything with super redundancy.

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Social Isolation and the Internet