An excerpt from CNN -
Rice University to offer free tuition to low-income and middle-income undergraduate students
By Gisela Crespo
Rice University will award scholarships that will cover the cost of tuition to students from low-income and middle-income families starting next fall, the school announced Tuesday.
Under an initiative called The Rice Investment, US students seeking an undergraduate degree with family incomes under $130,000 will not pay tuition. Those with family incomes below $65,000 will also receive grant aid to cover school fees and room and board.
Students with family incomes between $130,000 and $200,000 will be eligible to receive scholarships that will cover at least half of their tuition. The plan will impact continuing students who are eligible based on need.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/health/rice-university-financial-aid-trnd/index.html
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Beto Speaks Out
Listen to Beto O’Rourke speak out on the murder of Botham Jean.— Simran Jeet Singh (@SikhProf) September 18, 2018
Isn’t he the type of person we want as a leader? #GoBeto pic.twitter.com/uKfsZYzhlr
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Say What?
An excerpt from Vox -
How Pedialyte got Pedialit
Inside Pedialyte’s journey from toddler flu remedy to hangover fix.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany
In May 2015, Pedialyte announced that it would target the hangover market — or rather, a subset of the adult market made up of people who engage in what the brand refers to as “occasional alcohol consumption.” The market was already there — Abbott said adult sales of Pedialyte were up 57 percent since 2012, accounting for a full third of total sales; the company was just deciding to go after it officially.
Abbott’s senior brand manager Eric Ryan tells me the decision to woo adults was simple: “The beauty of the product is that the benefits haven’t changed — Pedialyte is still a medical-grade hydration solution backed by advanced science. We don’t endorse heavy drinking or claim to cure hangovers, but our users find confidence in having a trusted rehydration solution that works.”
People had been tweeting about using Pedialyte as a hangover remedy since at least 2009. (Although back then, you could also find lots of people talking about rehydrating kittens and puppies. It was a different time online.) Some of these people were famous, including Carson Daly, Diplo, and a slew of college football players.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/10/17819358/pedialyte-hangover-marketing-strategy-instagram-influencers
How Pedialyte got Pedialit
Inside Pedialyte’s journey from toddler flu remedy to hangover fix.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany
In May 2015, Pedialyte announced that it would target the hangover market — or rather, a subset of the adult market made up of people who engage in what the brand refers to as “occasional alcohol consumption.” The market was already there — Abbott said adult sales of Pedialyte were up 57 percent since 2012, accounting for a full third of total sales; the company was just deciding to go after it officially.
Abbott’s senior brand manager Eric Ryan tells me the decision to woo adults was simple: “The beauty of the product is that the benefits haven’t changed — Pedialyte is still a medical-grade hydration solution backed by advanced science. We don’t endorse heavy drinking or claim to cure hangovers, but our users find confidence in having a trusted rehydration solution that works.”
People had been tweeting about using Pedialyte as a hangover remedy since at least 2009. (Although back then, you could also find lots of people talking about rehydrating kittens and puppies. It was a different time online.) Some of these people were famous, including Carson Daly, Diplo, and a slew of college football players.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/10/17819358/pedialyte-hangover-marketing-strategy-instagram-influencers
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Friday, September 14, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Getting Rich Dumpster Diving
An excerpt from Wired -
THE PRO DUMPSTER DIVER WHO'S MAKING THOUSANDS OFF AMERICA'S BIGGEST RETAILERS
BY DAY, MATT Malone is a security specialist for Slait Consulting. By night, he earns even bigger money as a dumpster diver.
He’s not diving in just any dumpster. By targeting electronics stores, like Office Depot or Best Buy, he makes away with like-new vacuums, computers, surveillance systems—you name it. If he pursued this secondary career full-time, Malone estimates he’d make more than $250,000 a year.
Although he doesn’t object to the term “dumpster diving,” Malone prefers the term “for-profit archaeologist.” One man’s trash is this man’s treasure—because we’re conditioned to see it that way. “We can only do what we do here because we live in a society where most people have been conditioned to look past what’s right in front of them,” says Malone.
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/pro-dumpster-diver/?CNDID=27124505&mbid=nl_090318_daily_list1_p3
THE PRO DUMPSTER DIVER WHO'S MAKING THOUSANDS OFF AMERICA'S BIGGEST RETAILERS
BY DAY, MATT Malone is a security specialist for Slait Consulting. By night, he earns even bigger money as a dumpster diver.
He’s not diving in just any dumpster. By targeting electronics stores, like Office Depot or Best Buy, he makes away with like-new vacuums, computers, surveillance systems—you name it. If he pursued this secondary career full-time, Malone estimates he’d make more than $250,000 a year.
Although he doesn’t object to the term “dumpster diving,” Malone prefers the term “for-profit archaeologist.” One man’s trash is this man’s treasure—because we’re conditioned to see it that way. “We can only do what we do here because we live in a society where most people have been conditioned to look past what’s right in front of them,” says Malone.
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/pro-dumpster-diver/?CNDID=27124505&mbid=nl_090318_daily_list1_p3
Can't Get Enough
Someone who works at a charity shop put Jeff Goldblum in every single photo frame 😂 pic.twitter.com/ey67khUNiG— SimonR (@Simonreah) September 1, 2018
Inciting Unrest
Donald Trump is now inciting civil unrest at his rallies, threatening the safety of our citizens.— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) September 3, 2018
A real President doesn’t do this.
A real congress won’t allow him to.https://t.co/NrLGWEFBsI pic.twitter.com/mJq73T36Kv
Monday, September 3, 2018
I Can Do This!
https://htv-streaming-otfp.hearst.io/b16cab5b-e18b-4dab-8ae2-0cf823983727/video_rover_16x9_240p_sd_1535937890_52799,video_rover_16x9_360p_sd_1535937890_6180,video_rover_16x9_480p_sd_1535937890_93123,video_rover_16x9_720p_hd_1535937890_92468/master.m3u8
Incredible!
Stanford Children's Health - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
about 3 weeks ago
A chance encounter at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has led to a heart-warming reunion between nurse and patient. Brandon, one of our pediatric residents, was born 28 years ago in our NICU--then just 29 weeks old. Vilma was his primary care nurse. Fast forward nearly 30 years, and Vilma recognized Brandon’s name while he was rounding at our hospital. What a memory! Here’s a special look at them both then and now. #WaybackWednesday
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Rev. Al Speaking the Truth
Rev. Al Sharpton at Aretha Franklin's funeral: "When word went out that Ms. Franklin passed, Trump said she used to work for me. No, she used to perform for you. She worked for us." https://t.co/qSW5iZgtqR pic.twitter.com/QrvJrR4kw3— ABC News (@ABC) August 31, 2018
Friday, August 31, 2018
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
He's a Smart Cookie
From the Washington Post -
This 4-year-old spotted an error on the WMATA map
By Kery Murakami
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2018/08/28/this-4-year-old-spotted-an-error-on-the-wmata-map/?utm_term=.38bec9f665c3
This 4-year-old spotted an error on the WMATA map
By Kery Murakami
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| Theo Reynolds, 4, points out a mistake he found on a Metro map in a Green Line car (Ehren Reynolds.) |
Experts Not Always the Best
An excerpt from the NY Times -
Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach
Advice for college students: The best experts sometimes make the worst educators.
By Adam Grant
Two decades ago, I arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate excited to soak up the brilliance of professors who had won Nobels and Pulitzers. But by the end of the first month of my freshman year, it was clear that these world-class experts were my worst teachers. My distinguished art history professor raved about Michelangelo’s pietra serena molding but didn’t articulate why it was significant. My renowned astrophysics professor taught us how the universe seemed to be expanding, but never bothered to explain what it was expanding into (still waiting for someone to demystify that one).
It wasn’t that they didn’t care about teaching. It was that they knew too much about their subject, and had mastered it too long ago, to relate to my ignorance about it. Social scientists call it the curse of knowledge. As the psychologist Sian Beilock, now the president of Barnard College, writes, “As you get better and better at what you do, your ability to communicate your understanding or to help others learn that skill often gets worse and worse.”
I’ve come to believe that if you want to learn something new, there are three factors that you should keep in mind when choosing a teacher — whether it’s a professor or mentor or soccer coach.
Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach
Advice for college students: The best experts sometimes make the worst educators.
By Adam Grant
Two decades ago, I arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate excited to soak up the brilliance of professors who had won Nobels and Pulitzers. But by the end of the first month of my freshman year, it was clear that these world-class experts were my worst teachers. My distinguished art history professor raved about Michelangelo’s pietra serena molding but didn’t articulate why it was significant. My renowned astrophysics professor taught us how the universe seemed to be expanding, but never bothered to explain what it was expanding into (still waiting for someone to demystify that one).
It wasn’t that they didn’t care about teaching. It was that they knew too much about their subject, and had mastered it too long ago, to relate to my ignorance about it. Social scientists call it the curse of knowledge. As the psychologist Sian Beilock, now the president of Barnard College, writes, “As you get better and better at what you do, your ability to communicate your understanding or to help others learn that skill often gets worse and worse.”
I’ve come to believe that if you want to learn something new, there are three factors that you should keep in mind when choosing a teacher — whether it’s a professor or mentor or soccer coach.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/college-professors-experts-advice.html
Monday, August 27, 2018
Sunday, August 26, 2018
It's Not the Outfit
You can take the superhero out of her costume, but you can never take away her superpowers. #justdoit pic.twitter.com/dDB6D9nzaD— Nike (@Nike) August 25, 2018
Tragic Coincidence
An excerpt from USA Today -
John McCain dies 9 years to the day after Ted Kennedy — of the same kind of cancer
By John D'Anna, Arizona Republic
PHOENIX – U.S. Sen. John McCain died nine years to the day after his good friend Sen. Ted Kennedy — both of the same kind of cancer.
McCain, R-Ariz., died Saturday a little more than a year after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that affects roughly 10,000 Americans a year.
Kennedy, D-Mass., a close friend of McCain's in the Senate, was diagnosed in May 2008 and died Aug. 25, 2009.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/25/john-mccain-dies-9-years-day-after-ted-kennedy-same-cancer/1102340002/
John McCain dies 9 years to the day after Ted Kennedy — of the same kind of cancer
By John D'Anna, Arizona Republic
PHOENIX – U.S. Sen. John McCain died nine years to the day after his good friend Sen. Ted Kennedy — both of the same kind of cancer.
McCain, R-Ariz., died Saturday a little more than a year after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that affects roughly 10,000 Americans a year.
Kennedy, D-Mass., a close friend of McCain's in the Senate, was diagnosed in May 2008 and died Aug. 25, 2009.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/25/john-mccain-dies-9-years-day-after-ted-kennedy-same-cancer/1102340002/
Spaghetti Mystery Solved
An excerpt from CNN -
Spaghetti mystery that stumped famous physicist is finally solved
By Don Lincoln
Until this month, however, it was unknown if it is even possible to break a stick of spaghetti into only two pieces. Spoiler: It is. And researchers Ronald Heisser of Cornell University and Vishal Patil of MIT and their co-authors figured it out. All it takes is a twist.
If you take a stick of spaghetti and twist it before you bend it, you can break the stick into two. When the initial fracture occurs, energy is released as occurs in a normal break, but rather than propagating through the stick and breaking it, the energy goes into relieving the tension induced by the twist.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/opinions/spaghetti-mystery-feynman-lincoln/index.html
Spaghetti mystery that stumped famous physicist is finally solved
By Don Lincoln
Until this month, however, it was unknown if it is even possible to break a stick of spaghetti into only two pieces. Spoiler: It is. And researchers Ronald Heisser of Cornell University and Vishal Patil of MIT and their co-authors figured it out. All it takes is a twist.
If you take a stick of spaghetti and twist it before you bend it, you can break the stick into two. When the initial fracture occurs, energy is released as occurs in a normal break, but rather than propagating through the stick and breaking it, the energy goes into relieving the tension induced by the twist.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/opinions/spaghetti-mystery-feynman-lincoln/index.html
Navigating the Mixed-Race Experience
An excerpt from the Guardian -
The mixed-race experience: 'There are times I feel like the odd one out'
By Alex Moshakis
Last year the photographer Tenee Attoh began taking portraits of multiracial friends and acquaintances against a mottled black background at the Bussey Building in Peckham, southeast London. Attoh is half-Dutch on her mother’s side, half-Ghanaian on her father’s, and identifies as mixed-race. Born in the UK, she spent most of the first 23 years of her life in Accra and Amsterdam, shuttling between cities and cultures, an experience she found enlightening but problematic. “On the one hand it allows you to develop a different understanding of the world,” she says of her duality. “But there’s still a lot of ignorance in society. People perceive you as either black or white, and you’re not – you’re mixed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/26/the-mixed-race-experience-there-are-times-i-feel-like-the-odd-one-out-
The mixed-race experience: 'There are times I feel like the odd one out'
By Alex Moshakis
Last year the photographer Tenee Attoh began taking portraits of multiracial friends and acquaintances against a mottled black background at the Bussey Building in Peckham, southeast London. Attoh is half-Dutch on her mother’s side, half-Ghanaian on her father’s, and identifies as mixed-race. Born in the UK, she spent most of the first 23 years of her life in Accra and Amsterdam, shuttling between cities and cultures, an experience she found enlightening but problematic. “On the one hand it allows you to develop a different understanding of the world,” she says of her duality. “But there’s still a lot of ignorance in society. People perceive you as either black or white, and you’re not – you’re mixed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/26/the-mixed-race-experience-there-are-times-i-feel-like-the-odd-one-out-
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