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It’s the start of New Year and we are all victims of the “resolutions” and “Fresh Start” bug. A viral that is in the air and somehow everyone seems to catch it. And yes, like most viral infections it runs its course and eventual we are cured of it! I am yet to meet an individual who has been able to keep a New Year resolution beyond the 30 day mark. 
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When one Texas school started giving kids four recesses a day, some teachers were nervous. Would they have enough time for teaching?
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Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
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Do you love to write? Do you have any idea about how with the act of writing affects your brain? Well this visual is perfect for you then! According to this visual, you can really boost your brainpower by understanding the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe. The frontal lobe is the part of …
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Large data volumes from Internet of Things will drive radical changes within today’s data centers and will require new big data strategies within enterprises.
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A conversation within UK universities is in order to address the lack of representation of black professors. Nathan Richards discusses his new film which explores the intellectual deficit within ac...
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Here's a bit of a round-up of recent research and commentary on the role of the leader in employee engagement. Combined, they tell a quite interesting story. 1. Naming the wrong person …
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Although African American workers are significantly better educated than they were three decades ago, they're actually less likely to be in good jobs, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
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University research should have more impact with the public and all academic researchers should be assessed, says a review of UK research funding.
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The workplace can be source of positive and negative emotions. Here are 5 negative workplace emotions and how to deal with them.
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When psychologist Philip Zimbardo embarked on a new social experiment in 1971, he could not possibly have predicted its outcome nor the repercussions. The Stanford prison experiment was a study that sought to investigate what happened to people when they were imprisoned. 24 student volunteers were randomly assigned as either guards or prisoners. The former were kitted out with guard uniforms and other associated paraphernalia. They were given sunglasses to wear and told you guard the prisoners in a mock prison in the basement of one of the Stanford University buildings. Those assigned as prisoners were 'arrested' and cuffed, and brought in by police cars to the 'prison' where they were placed in the cells.
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We all have heard about the dangers of stress. But what happens to your brain when your adrenal glands release cortisol? It's much worse than you imagined
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From a narrative case statements to communicating the success in your graduate and adult programs, learn about storytelling in higher education marketing.
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As many a great graphic and web designer knows, human behavior is just as important to a new design as the required elements themselves. Knowing the normal patterns of the human brain can help your designs have more influence while conveying the right message to your clients’ target audience.
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What drives sharing? It's a mix of attention, emotion, and reaction. Here's hard data on which news stories took off and which didn't on social.
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The hunt for the Higgs boson was one of the most expensive and labor-intensive particle physics projects ever undertaken, and promised to answer the fundamental but elusive question of why our atoms stick together in the first place. And yet, when CERN researchers finally announced that they'd glimpsed the Higgs, the world's first reaction wasn't to cheer; it was to stifle collective laughter. The institution's scientists, cradling the most important scientific discovery of the decade, had chosen to present their findings to a breathless public using a peculiar font face: Comic Sans MS.
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