Saving for Your Newborn
by Franziska Castillo
You’ve got the crib. The baby monitor. The stroller. The highest-rated-for-safety car seat. You’ve thought of everything for that newest member of your family. Or have you? What about your baby’s financial future? Related >> Household Budgets for Beginners: Simple Tips for Success What kind of account should you open for your child, and when should you do it? According to financial planning experts, it is never too soon to set up a savings account for…
More: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2016/11/15/saving-for-your-newborn/...
Are you demoralised by your PhD?
This post is by Samantha Fitch, a PhD Student at School of Population Health at the University of Auckland
As I approach the 3-year mark, I’m the worst person to talk to if you want to do a PhD. I heard an undergraduate student say how she “just loved research”. I replied – “I felt that way too… when I was an undergrad”. Something had changed. I’m no longer that same excited undergrad – who reads academic articles in her spare time, just because.
I felt like I’d lost myself.
I read all of the lists that you can find on the web about things to do or avoid in a PhD. ...
Stop The Spread of Fake News
Mark Zuckerburg might think that fake news on Facebook didn’t sway the election, but Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci (and many others) aren’t buying it. In a piece for the New York Times (where she is a regular contributor and a must-read), Tufekci writes:
He is also contradicting Facebook’s own research.
In 2010, researchers working with Facebook conducted an experiment on 61 million users in the United States right before the midterm elections. One group was shown a “go vote” message…
Continue: http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/stop-the-spread-of-fake-news/6...
Myths of Online Learning
No matter how much I stand up to the online education haters, they still have a lot to say about the “less impressive, less strenuous,” interactive internet platform classes so many students are taking these days. I do admit, it gets a bit frustrating attempting to refute the critics and show them t
The ART of Video Funded by the Gates Foundation
When we started BenchFly five years ago, in 2009, our mission was to make research a better career for current and future generations of scientists. Today we continue to work toward this goal using video as the primary means to educate scientists in companies, in universities and now in high schools! In the fall of 2013, we were incredibly fortunate to have met Kentucky teacher Tricia Shelton (thank you, Twitter!) arguably one of the most energetic, passionate, and dedicated teachers out there. In less than 12 months, our collaboration has resulted in a new video-based curriculum, called The A...
What is a Manifold? (3/6)
Intrinsic descriptions
One immediate benefit of considering coordinate-free descriptions of geometric objects is that we may talk about “curves” that are not a priori embedded in \mathbb{R}^3. In other words, we don’t have to start with a subset of \mathbb{R}^3 to be able to study 1-dimensional objects. There is already quite a nontrivial question we can ask: what curves can be embedded in a plane? The answer will be provided as a condition on k and \tau, and this description has the advantage of having nothing to do with \mathbb{R}^3 or any other non-intrinsic data. Later we will tal...
The Path of Fearlessness
Path of Fearlessness
By Leo Babauta
The more I work with people who are struggling with habits or life problems, the more I see how fears are holding us back.
Fears stop us from building healthy and productive habits. Fears cause us to procrastinate, keep us from finding work that is meaningful (or doing that work if we’ve found it). Fears keep us from finding friends or connecting with people on a deeper level. Fears keep us from being happy in each moment.
Underlying all of those fears are a few key fears:
•Fear of failure or being unprepared
•Fear of uncertainty
•Fe...
Unclutterer’s 2016 Holiday Gift Giving Guide: Convenient tech
by David Caolo
Technology offers the promise of convenience and ease. These awesome tech gift ideas deliver on that promise. From taking notes to the ultimate bedside charging cable, we’ve collected the best tech gifts that add convenience to your day – or night. Let’s get started with those who work in both the digital and analog world.
The Wacom Bamboo Folio Smartpad is a clever and useful device that marries hand-written and digital note taking. On the right, it’s pen and paper. Take notes, write text, plan world domination. When the planning is complete, simply hit a button a...
7 Reasons Why Bright Students Drop Out of Grad School
by Dora Farkas, PhD
Dropping Out of Grad School Is A Silent Epidemic
Dropping out of grad school has a high financial and emotional cost for students and their families.
Every year about 50% of grad students drop out of doctoral programs.
But, none of my professors told me this when I decided to apply to a PhD program.
In fact, I never thought that after 5 years I would want to drop out of grad school.
I entered grad school assuming that there would be a clear path to my PhD degree.
I thought that if I followed all of my supervisor’s advice, I would be guaranteed a doc...
Arizona Summit Receives WRBLSA Award Arizona Summit was recently awarded the 2016 Black Student Law Association Chapter Award at the
Western Region Black Law Students Association (WRBLSA)'s 48th annual convention held during the
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