Submitted by magitam
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* Trading and finding the heroic within ourselves;* Perspectives on greatness, happiness, and performance;* Self-regulation and training: sustaining a steady state as a trader;* This post on Bernanke and the U.S. dollar (Read More)
Submitted by ariherzog
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How many times have you asked this, or heard it asked?Yes, but who OWNS social media? Is it marketing? PR? Customer service?My answer? Yes.You see, we’ve gotten so very matrixed and hierarchical in our approach to accountabil (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell. Read by Philip GlenisterCSA Word £16.16 6hrsThe year of Orwell's dystopia is now long past, but it's frightening to realise just how much of it has come true. The novel, with those dreadful (Read More)
The Guardian:
Twenty years after I watched the Berlin Wall fall, I worry that the hope it inspired is being slowly crushedWhen the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban on crucifixes in Italian schools, you can either celebrate th (Read More)
The Guardian:
While the impact of such contemporaries as Nelson Mandela on the events of the 20th century is firmly established in the public mind, the crucial role played the architect of glasnost is in danger of being overlookedAt the Br (Read More)
The Guardian:
Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The ‘Haptic Cow' may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow's feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. Miss B (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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George Siemens writes that:“Without going through a painful attempt to deconstruct learning and its systemic origins, I think it’s safe to state the following as the key elements of a weltanschauung that define formal educati (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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Hurray! The pivot article that marks my transition from physics to statistic modeling is finally out:How to estimate the differential acceleration in a two-species atom interferometer to test the equivalence principleG Varoqu (Read More)
Los Angeles Times - Top News:
Rep. John Dingell takes the chair as Democrats try to round up votes for the ideas his father once championed. Republicans remain firmly opposed. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
There are plenty of theories about how to improve education. Most focus on what appear to be big levers--a point of entry and system intervention that appears to provide some improvement leverage. These theories usually inv (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Despite an impressive international return from their fly-half, England looked bereft of ideas as they went down to AustraliaAdvance, Australia, fair and square. This Wallaby team was not supposed to have any chance of emulat (Read More)
The Guardian:
Alan Bennett's new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong?This is a sample of the writing Benjamin Britten set to music in (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gianfranco Fini is caught between Berlusconi's waywardness and unreconstructed racists within the Lega Nord"We must cleanse our streets of the black-skinned, the yellow-skinned, the Roma … I would have all the immigrants put (Read More)
SMC:posts:
More marketers are recognizing that social media brings value to their brands’ marketing efforts. And along with the interest in social media comes questions, like:What kind of information could we share through social media (Read More)
/Film:
While journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson is currently undergoing a metamorphosis into a screenwriter, the first film to bear his name is not from one of his own scripts but has been fictionalized, and rather heavily so, (Read More)
Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog:
An under-performing site has serious consequences to revenue – online and across channels.Today’s shoppers have high expectations when it comes to buying online. Websites which take too long to load can result in negative bra (Read More)