Stress and Breathing Patterns

Stephanie Vozza suggests that breathing exercises can help individuals deal with stress , providing tips for tactical breathing and box breating.

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E-Sports and Universities

Cecilia D'Anastasio writes about university e-sports being an expensive bubble , as there are indications that the valuation of the sport is inaccurate.

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Corporate Partnership Tips

Mary Davis provides guidance for schools determined to create corporate partnerships .

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Drinking and College Students

Alexander Kafka explains what can be done to reduce student drunkeness .

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Clear Linux

Jason Evangelho provides an overview of the Clear Linux project, which offers a new version developed by Intel.

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Adult College Students

Melissa Ezarick reviews what matters to adult college students .

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Robots for Training

Ray Jimenez updates trainers to the growth in using robots to replace humans in repetitive training or communication tasks. Jimenez talks about the special value humans add to communication, especially in an interactive environment, which bots currently lack the flexibility to respond.

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Information Literacy Resources from Credo

CREDO distributes information and tools for teaching information literacy (IL).

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Information Technology in the Academic Library

Dian Schaffhauser provides an example of an academic library and IT department providing their functions sharing the same building.

Because library technology and student projects both rely on information technology, I think this partnership can make sense. In my experience, the training librarians receive in interviewing and customer service enables them to calm frustrated students (and faculty) and to refer these people to the help they need.

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Sleep Hygiene and Sleeping Outdoors

Erin Berger did an informal outdoor experiment on circadian rhythms, and proved to herself that good sleep hygiene improves daily alertness and concentration.

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Travel Apps

Popular Mechanics offers a short list of travel apps .

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Ethnic Studies

Sarah Brown reports that ethinic studies can suffer from irregular funding.

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Scholarships for Prisoners

Elissa Nadworny reports on efforts to make Pell grants available to U.S. prisoners.

This is a struggle because of existing legislation which denies such U.S. Federal aid to drug dealers or draft dodgers.

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Devices, Media, and Human Interaction

Sean Illing interviews Susan Matt, the co-author (with Luke Fernandez) of Bored Lonely Angry Stupid , a book which explores how our emotions are shaped by media and the devices we use to interact with media.

I find it ironic that the advertisement coincidentally placed above this interview was for a smartphone.

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Social Media -- Inducing Fear?

Rani Molla notes that while crime statistics are down, the decline of local news reporting and the rise of social media causes people to be concerned that crime may be increasing. This has led to the development of social-media powered apps for reporting neighborhood crime to members of the resulting social media community.

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Graduate School Tuition

Jon Marcus laments the rising cost of graduate education .

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Google Usage Study Shows Less Clicking on Individual Results

Greg Sterling has summarized a report on Google usage from Lily Ray at Moz . It shows that younger Google users are more likely to be satisfied with the featured snippets and knowledge panel content served on search results pages, and thus are less likely than their elders to click on an individual search result. This has significant implications for search engine marketing.

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Teaching Library Research Skills

Beth Black offers tips on teaching library skills to first year university students.

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Windows Updates

Preston Gralla comments on Microsoft's new update policy for Microsoft Windows. Gralla also praises Microsoft's President, Satya Nadella, for his responsiveness to user concerns.

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Surveillance Technology

Sam Shead raises the ethical issues regarding research conducted by U.S. academics that is being used abroad for surveillance by foreign governments.

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FireFox Extensions

Gregg Keizer recounts how the Mozilla team was forced to update an expired security certificate used by its extensions. The expired certificate prevented the extensions from running.

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Teaching Grit

David DeSteno suggests that practicing acts of cooperation are key to developing the "grit" necessary for academic success.

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Microsoft Edge Browser Improvements

Gregg Kiezer reports that the iOS and Android versions of the Edge web browser now allow for single sign-on, which should be a boon to enterprise environments where people log in to the network for resources.

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Accidents in Complex Systems

Erik Larson writes about how accidents are inevitable. He cites the work of sociologist Charles Perrow, who in the 1984 book Normal Accidents proposed that disasters will arise from small problems in complex, tightly-coupled systems.

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Matching in Linux

Sandra Henry-Stocker teaches how to find identical content in multiple Linux files.

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Job Search

Sara McCord offers job seeking tips for those who need help with writing . These include using a template, be sparse, and involve others to review your words.

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Basque Microcurrency

Justin Calderon reports on the development of French Basque microcurrency which is inspiring other European nationalist groups.

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GPS Spoofing

Elias Groll reports on a study of Russian spoofing of GPS systems with mobile transponders when President Putin travels to foreign nations. It is assumed this is done to reduce the possibility of drone attacks on the Russian President.

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