As the toxic cloud of the Bush-Cheney era in America begins to lift, we are beginning to see the scope of the mess they’ve left us in.  The boys from Delta House have been partying hard for eight years, and now we’re supposed to move in and live here like nothing has happened?   The tr...

Daniel Seddiqui, age 23, is on a mission to work 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks. A gamechanger identifies and plays a productive game. Focuses on preparation more than planning. Is more concerned with getting results than in producing specific outcomes. Seddiqui could not be playing this game if h...

Our topic of the week was favorite spanking outcomes. Here are your responses. Aeon's Angel : My favorite part of the spanking is the feeling of anticipation. I like waiting for the first swat to land and feel the heat from Aeon’s hand. I feel the gentle caress afterward, knowing that any time ano...

I mentioned in my review of Made to Stick (incidentally, they have a website about it here) the other day about statistics giving credibility, but often inducing glazed eyes and heavy eyelids. But, in the broader area of evaluation and......

* Chest compression alone nearly doubled the chances of a good neurological outcome in patients at greatest risk (those that stopped breathing , which accounted for 90 percent of those in the study). * The good outcomes were most likely if the rescue attempt began within four minutes of the collapse...

Daily Aid 29: The credit crisis hits college campuses Student Financial Aid News From NASFAA and the AP: “The credit crunch has officially arrived on campus,” the Associated Press reports. “In a new survey, private colleges report their students are finding it significantly harder ...

The Google Analytics team announced the release of seven features today. The next stage in the metamorphosis of the popular web analytics tool. Without a doubt the feature that I am most excited about is Advanced Segmentation. This has been a long time coming (can you sense my pushiness!), and in th...

The Flexible Learning Planning Guide provides a set of 10 guidelines for teachers planning a small-scale implementation of online learning. The first guideline is: Learning is guided by a clear schedule of objectives and activities which establish an effective developmental progression. This is not ...

Every team needs to have a driving reason for being, for existing, for working as a team ("being a team" isn't good enough). It's the thing that pulls people together, that enables them to see beyond the major conflicts, the petty disagreements, the slog and the hard times … and to envision a bett...

Douglas Adams (author of “The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy�) once mentioned a SEP field. It was a way of hiding something from people by making it “Somebody Else’s Problem�. The example was the appearance of a large spaceship at......