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Psy-CHARACTER

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:53:56 GMT

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Where the Wild Things Are

In Homer’s poetry, every hero has a trait. Achilles is angry. Odysseus is cunning. And so was born one picture of character and conduct.

In this view, what you might call the philosopher’s view, each of us has certain ingrained character traits. An honest person will be honest most of the time. A compassionate person will be compassionate.

Psych Tests

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:42:11 GMT

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Clip Source: well.blogs.nytimes.com

Best Online Psychology Tests

Want to know what’s really going on in your own head? The mental health Web site PsychCentral offers a list of the best online psychology tests. Some of these are used to collect data for research experiments, while others are skill tests or quizzes that offer personal insights. Here are a few of the best.

Salad Recipes

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:39:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

101 Simple Salads for the Season

SUMMER may not be the best time to cook, but it’s certainly among the best times to eat. Toss watermelon and peaches with some ingredients you have lying around already, and you can produce a salad that’s delicious, unusual, fast and perfectly seasonal.

EduPhilosophy

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:29:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.fastcompany.com

Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking"

The smell of ramen noodles wafts over the Stanford d.school classroom as David Kelley settles into an oversize red leather armchair for a fireside chat with new students. It's 80 degrees and sunny outside in Palo Alto, and as the flames flicker merrily on the big computer screen behind him, Kelley, founder of both the d.school and the global design consultancy Ideo, introduces his grad students to what "design thinking" -- the methodology he made famous and the motivating idea behind the school -- is all about.

David Kelley, founder of the design firm Ideo and the Stanford d.school, was leading a charmed existence. Then he felt a lump.

SocialEnt-Toolkit

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:18:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ideo.com

We are a global design consultancy. We create impact through design.

IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need.

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for organizations like yours that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design (HCD) will help you hear people's needs in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind.

RaceRelations

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:18:54 GMT

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Clip Source: nytimes.com

Two generations after the end of legal discrimination, race still ignites political debates — over Civil War flags, for example, or police profiling. But the wider public discussion of race relations seems muted by a full-employment economy and by a sense, particularly among many whites, that the time of large social remedies is past. Race relations are being defined less by political action than by daily experience, in schools, in sports arenas, in pop culture and at worship, and especially in the workplace. These encounters — race relations in the most literal, everyday sense — make up this series of reports, the outcome of a yearlong examination by a team of Times reporters.

YouthSocialEntrepreanuer

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:50:40 GMT

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Clip Source: socialentrepreneurship.change.org

Youth Taking Action: A 15 Year Old Invents the Future

At the tender age of 9, Javier Fernández-Han found his calling: design for the other 90 percent - help the world's poor meet their basic needs sustainably.

Several years of research and design have led to an innovative solution: The VERSATILE System - a mashup of new and adapted technology that treats waste, produces methane and bio-oil as fuel, produces food for humans and livestock, sequesters greenhouse gases, and produces oxygen.

PreTrip

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:38:17 GMT

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Clip Source: frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com

Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend

As the Frugal Traveler, I’m on the road three to six months out of the year, and all that wandering takes not just stamina but organization as well. From researching destinations to booking flights and hotels to actually figuring out what to do when I arrive, I have a long list of Web sites and other resources — some well known, others less so — that I use to learn what’s new, interesting and inexpensive. Since so many are planning their summer vacations, I thought I’d share my tried-and-true process. It’s less about secret Web sites and exotic booking strategies than about sheer thoroughness.

Jobs

Sat, 02 May 2009 17:28:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.essentialschools.org

Jobs

Sat, 02 May 2009 17:23:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bayces.org

Jobs

Sat, 02 May 2009 17:22:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sfcess.org

San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools

San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (SF-CESS) intends to make an impact on the design and sustainability of new and existing small schools in San Francisco by providing coaching, technical assistance and professional development focused on equity, inquiry and achievement to a network of schools.

CareerChoice

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:41:13 GMT

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Clip Source: roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com

Teaching: No ‘Fallback’ Career

As private sector professionals lose their jobs or suffer cutbacks in pay and benefits, more and more of them are thinking about second careers. Public service is suddenly popular with all generations. Teaching may not pay a lot, but it comes with relatively good benefits and, in public schools, job security in the form of tenure after three years. But this fallback fantasy may be unrealistic, despite reports of a possible teacher shortage in the next several years. Does such a shortfall really exist? What does it take to become a teacher, let alone a good one?

Reform: Tests

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:40:05 GMT

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What We Learn From School Tests

The good news: the average reading and math scores for the nation’s 9- and 13-year-olds are up since the early 1970s. The bad news: the scores for 17-year-olds are unchanged in the same periods. Those were the findings, released on Tuesday, of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal test considered to be the best measure of long-term trends in math and reading abilities.

TeacherTraining

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:18:02 GMT

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Clip Source: roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com

Teaching: No ‘Fallback’ Career

As private sector professionals lose their jobs or suffer cutbacks in pay and benefits, more and more of them are thinking about second careers. Public service is suddenly popular with all generations. Teaching may not pay a lot, but it comes with relatively good benefits and, after three years, job security in the form of tenure. But this fallback fantasy may be unrealistic, despite reports of a possible teacher shortage in the next several years. Does such a shortfall really exist? What does it take to become a teacher, let alone a good one?

Homophobia

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The Bigots’ Last Hurrah

WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic “The Village of the Damned” with the Broadway staple “A Chorus Line”? You don’t need to use your imagination. It’s there waiting for you on YouTube under the title “Gathering Storm”: a 60-second ad presenting homosexuality as a national threat second only to terrorism.