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  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective LEARNERS

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective LEARNERS0

    When many people think they’re learning, they’re really not. That’s the conclusion reached by Henry Roediger, Mark McDaniel, and Peter Brown in their recent and very popular book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. The book is the fruit of ten years of empirical research into how people actually learn, i.e., how they

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  • The 7 Deadly Sins: Then & Now

    The 7 Deadly Sins: Then & Now0

    Today’s culture rarely references the seven deadly sins rooted in Christianity that had been known to nearly all men of the West for almost 2,000 years. Occasionally, one of the sins may be referenced in pop culture, but to my knowledge the most recent popular reference to them was the movie Seven (1995), a grisly

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  • The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media

    The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media1

    Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. ~ Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (2011) The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer suggests that Hoffman’s tongue-in-cheek comment from five years ago may contain more than a kernel of truth. Using Dante’s Inferno as a guide, Meyer outlines

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  • The 6th Century Cure for Anxiety

    The 6th Century Cure for Anxiety0

    • August 13, 2015

    The classics may be old, but they are still perceptive. Like anyone, I have holes in my education. Inspired to fill one of these holes, last week I picked up and read through Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, which has had a tremendous influence on Western thought. Written circa 525 A.D. as Boethius was awaiting execution,

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  • The 6 Best Ways to Approach Your Child’s Teacher

    The 6 Best Ways to Approach Your Child’s Teacher0

    By now, many of us have seen some version of the cartoon below. The two scenes highlight the change society has experienced in recent years. Where once the teacher was the wise, all-knowing authority to be respected, now the child is the one who can do no wrong. We often shake our heads over this

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  • The 5-Second Rule is Actually True – NASA Says So

    The 5-Second Rule is Actually True – NASA Says So0

    If I recall correctly, I first heard of the 5-second rule as a teenager while working in a community kitchen with some other girls. Someone likely dropped a cookie on the floor, yelped “Oops! 5-second rule!”, dusted off the cookie, and popped it into her mouth. We giggled over the incident, saying with feigned sarcasm,

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