Book Giveaway: Reservations by Sally Thompson
Author: Grace
I'm a "dirt-ologist". I love studying the interface of human and environment interaction, often asking the rather rhetorical question: "Do we change the landscape, or does the landscape change us?"
I also captain the ISS Insanitekian, a startup adventure of a lifetime.
Stop dreaming, start doing
Every so often you pick up a self-leadership book that goes beyond good advice to solid advice that is so actionable that you want to put down the book and start making a difference in your life. Andrew McDonald wrote one of these books, and now he’s looking to pay it forward by giving 1,000 …
A cluttered desk is the sign of…
… a sign of a cluttered mind. What does that make the psychology of organisation? Is it beneficial or a slippery slide toward OCD? Turns out it could be both at the same time. Most of us were raised to clean our rooms, make our beds, pick up after ourselves, and …
Understanding the Power of Believing in Yourself
Believe in yourself seems trite, but it’s true. In psychology there is a concept called “self-efficacy”. The term was coined by Albert Bandura (PDF), who described this as the belief in oneâs capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations . This would be like you, standing in front of a …
Disrupting Science With New Ideas
When headlines read that an industry was turned on it’s head or disrupted, if you will, it gets not only the public and the media fired up, but also re-energizes the industry in question. It’s not a new concept — after all, those in the renaissance of science and technology would have been hard pressed …
What’s the Big Deal with Apple VS. FBI?
So, all over the internet people are talking about the Apple versus FBI security issues. It is all over YouTube, between every two cat videos there is a video about Apple vs. FBI now! But what’s the big deal? For those of you who were not following this for the last few weeks. The FBI …
Ask by Ryan Levesque [Resource Review]
Ask : The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what your customers want to buy…create a mass of raving fans…and take any business to the next level by Ryan Levesque My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ask, as it should go without saying, is a marketing book. Not only is about marketing, but it’s also …
Research Focus: Homeless Students on Campus
When students wander around campus, they aren’t looking at people judgementally and wondering if their fellow classmates are homeless. In fact, they generally assume all students are not homeless. I, personally, can attest to that with my own story, but it never occurred to me to look beyond myself to others that might be in …
Behind the Masks: Interview with Ashley Capes
Tucked away on a shelf in bookstores in Australia and available as print on demand is a book that has poetry, history, sociology, and political science all woven together expertly. You’d not find it on the non-fiction shelves where you’d expect such a book to lie, but rather in the non-fiction section. And in the …
PR for the modern scientist
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. With recent fiscal challenges and public misunderstandings about science, the Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, Cora Marrett, pleaded the case for scientists to begin speaking out and doing some public relations about their research. The …