Working from Home

Kristen Sentz reports on a survey by Christopher Stanton, Zoe Cullen, and Michael Luca which indicates that perhaps 16% of workers will remain working from home as a result of the pandemic.

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Demand for Credential of Expertise

Paul Fain suggests that the demand for credentials of expertise (without completing a traditional academic degree) will be sustained.

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Athens, Ohio Pawpaw Festival

Atlas Obscura ran an article on the Ohio Pawpaw Festival which occurs in Athens, Ohio in mid-September. The Pawpaw is the largest edible native fruit in North America, and is said to taste like banana or chewing gum.

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Quarantine Restrictions Lifted for Some

Donald Wood says that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is dropping the 14-day quarantine requirement which was in place when U.S. citizens returned from other nations.

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Social Media and Jaron Lanier

Zack Baron describes Jaron Lanier as the "Conscience of the Internet" for expressing concerns about social media.

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Enrollment Opportunity Opened by Covid-19

Scott Carlson discusses how Zane State College discovered opportunities for recruiting new students as a result of the Coronavirus.

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Glide for Google Apps

Glide has released tools to turn Google Sheet projects into apps !

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Smelling Parkinson's

Jonathan Grinstein reports that smell may join the arsenal of tools arrayed against Parkinson's Disease.

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Images in the Cloud

Rita Khoury praised the Google file picker software update which allows users to retrieve images from the cloud .

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Image Search

Bill Slawski discusses the technology of textually searching for images . Slawski reports that Google has submitted a number of patent applications for using text queries to retrieve images.

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Google's Search Console Insignts

Barry Schwartz provides facts about Google's new Search Console Insights tool for those with web content.

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Online Classes

Goldie Blumenstyk talks about some benefits of online classes and its impact on groups such as prisoners .

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Google Voice

J. R. Raphael encourages the adoption of Google Voice .

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G-mail and Google Meet

J. R. Raphael questions Google's linking of Gmail with Google Meet .

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Wear the Mask!

Barry Schwartz shares a Google doodle promoting mask use.

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Web Site Optimization

Barry Schwartz provides a list of factors Google does not use in ranking sites .

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Signal for Secure Messaging

Johnny Evans reviews the features of Signal , a multi-platform messaging tool.

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Working From Home

James Connolly encourages managers to treat home workers with compassion .

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Gmail Productivity Tips

J. R. Raphael offers awesome Gmail tips that increase the utility of your Gmail account.

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Do Events in Ancient Athens Foreshadow Those Today in the United States

Edward Mendelson quotes from passages in Thucydides' writing which might presage the United States in the early 21st century. Mendelson frames Thucydides as a moral philospher and historian, noting:

He understands morals, not as a set of arbitrary rules imposed or wished upon reality, but part of the fabric of reality itself, in the same way that Greek philosophy had begun to understand physical laws as inseparable from reality. Thucydides came to the same insight that Ludwig Wittgenstein recorded centuries later when he wrote that ethics “must be a condition of the world like logic.”

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Simplify Gmail

J. R. Raphael is pumped about Michael Leggett's Gmail improvements which make organizing and retrieving email much easier.

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Working From Home

Simon Usborne writes of the loneliness of working from home in isolation.

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Android Time Savers

J. R. Raphael reveals Android time saving features available in a variety of apps.

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Google Docs

J. R. Raphael speaks about hidden productivity features in Google Docs .

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Campus Coronavirus Exposure

Sarah Brown and Katherine Mangan talk about minimizing coronavirus exposure on campus.

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The Residual Value of Online Meetings

John Nawn suggests ways to add value to online meetings and events.

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Character Traits and Success

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reviews the impact of personality traits on career success. He defines eleven traits from the Hogan Developmet Survey:

1. Bold
2. Cautious
3. Colorful
4. Diligent
5. Dutiful
6. Excitable
7. Imaginative
8. Leisurely
9. Mischievous
10. Reserved
11. Skeptical

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Alpha Males and Mask Wearing

Peter Glick talks about how some alpha males refuse to wear masks , endangering those around them.

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