Why People Don’t Change Their Spots
We all know the phrase about people not being able to change who they are (their character), no matter how
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Made in America: 10 historic innovations that changed our world
Innovation is at the heart of the American economy. Since the earliest colonial times, new ideas and fresh ways of
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12 Ways to Think About Beauty
What is beauty? For most of us today, when we think of beauty, we probably think of our favorite movie
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How to be a Gentleman – Lessons from History
Some say that believing in gentlemen is like believing in fairy tales. In our fast-paced, frenetic world, we can be
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Is Reading Books a Dying Art?
With the rise of multi-tasking, skim reading, and scouring the web for multiple bits of information, we can be forgiven
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10 Lessons on Body Language from Belle Époque artist Jacques-Émile Blanche
Most portrait paintings we see in museums are of people posed fairly consistently in a serious, closed lip stare, usually squarely
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6 Secrets to Success from Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) was the 26th President of the United States and a leading force of the Progressive
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Why Failure is the Best Lesson for the Future
One of the major lessons taught in schools today is that failure is not an option. The Atlantic.com told a
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Technological Unemployment
In the 1960’s classic movie “The Graduate”, a young Dustin Hoffman playing Benjamin Braddock gets some sage advice from a
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MOOCs and Accelerated Learning
[shareaholic app=”share_buttons” id=”17997469″] Massively Overhyped Online Courses? A common thread in many of the earlier articles written about MOOCs was
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