Amazon's Impact

Jasen Aten suggests that Amazon has caused small business to thrive while forcing large firms to be more efficient.

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Book Editing

Rachel Toor gives the lowdown on what book editors do.

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Mastering Reading

Irina Dumitrescu describes how she mastered reading .

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Training Children to Handle Money

Jim Brown suggests how to teach kids about managing money .

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FireFox Update to Check Passwords

Gregg Keizer reports that FireFox Browser version 70 will periodically check internally stored username-password combinations against databases listing hacked corporate accounts, and notify the browser user if their password(s) are compromised. Firefox 70 is due to be released in October.

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Audit Your Website

Jo Julianna Turnbull writes about auditing a website for bad links, the presence of alternate text, and mobile friendly.

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Alternative Browsers

Peter Sayer and Gregg Keize discuss alternatives to Safari for a handheld or laptop.

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DuckDuckGo

Johnnie Evans promotes the secure search engine, DuckDuckGo

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Audio for Teaching

Michael Ridley reports on using audio as a teaching tool .

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Peer Learning

Zuochen Zhang and Jonathan G. Bayley review the value of peer learning in a university.

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James Changing Akron

Hanif Abdurraqib talks about LeBro Jamers and the Promise School in downtown Akron.

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Media and Free Will

Brian Gallagher muses on whether media imperils our free will.

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Responsible Boycotts

Jonathan Howe and Steve Rudner explain the responsible method of dealing with legislation your association or conference audience considers unethical. Rudner (2019) says "For a group to cancel a meeting because of its political, religious or social beliefs, and expect the hotel to sustain damage resulting from that cancellation, is really neither brave nor principled" (para. 7).

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The Ollie's Story

Abram Brown tells the story of Ollie's , a retail firm that is doing just fine without internet sales.

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Getting Research Published

Elsevier has authored a booklet on Getting Your Research Published ... And Then Noticed

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Hiring a College President

Kevin Dettmar and Sam Glick discuss the dynamics of the quest to hire a new university President. A "closed" search, conducted by a head hunter and a committee, is contrasted with an "open" search, where there is broad campus participation in the hiring process.

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Windows Voice Recognition Commands

Microsoft has published the speech recognition commands understood by Windows 10.

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How People Sap Their Brain Power

Tara Swart warns of behaviors which sap concentration and brain power.

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Sleep Cycles

Markham Heid suggests that night owls and early birds would do well to heed their internal clock .

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Crystal Clear Communication

Maxwell King shares the communication methods Mr. Rodgers used when speaking with children .

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Alcohol Free "Sans Bars"

April Fulton and Allison Aubrey recount the benefits of sobriety and the development of alcohol-free sans bars .

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Happiness

Joe Pinsker reports on research by Laurie Santos on human happiness .

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Trends in University Initiatives

Eli Zimmermamn notes four trends in universities trying to grasp the latest roles and buzzwords :

1. Platform facilitators (the role schools have in curating and distributing content to their students).
2. Experiential curator (taking academic content around the world).
3. Learning certifier (distributing microcredentials, certifying life experience, etc.).
4. Workforce intergrator (cooperation with corporate programs).

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Contact List Maintenance

Whitson Gordon suggests how to prune and merge contact lists so that they remain useful.

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The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

New York Times book reviewers provide a list of recommended memoirs .

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Information Processing: A Multidimensional Brain Function?

Hannah Osborne reports on research indicating that information processing involves the brain utilizing more than the four dimensions normally measured.

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A Book for Every Age

The staff of Book World have created a list of one hundred recommended books.

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We Are Frankenstein

David Robson muses on how our bodies can become hosts of another's cells after conception. Most of the article explores cases of chimeras that occur to a child in the womb or to a mother's body as a result of pregnancy.

In regard to the latter case, a remarkably high percentage of tested mothers (63%) show male DNA lodged in their brain (Chan et al., 2012), which presumably was the result of carrying a son in pregnancy. I speculate that in some subliminal way this "shared flesh" may bond mother and child.

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Developing Math Skill

Beth McMurtrie shares tips for student success with math .

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Alertness Resulting From Rest

Srini Pillay discusses the importance of taking breaks when working on a lengthy, exhausting mental task.

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