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Summer “vacation”
One Minute Personality Tests – PsyBlog
The Big Five personality framework is well-validated across cultures and popular with researchers, although it's not as well known at the Myers Briggs. The five factors of personality that emerge with some consistency are Extroversion/introversion Neuroticism Agreeableness Conscientiousness Openness to experience Looking over this list, you can see why the Big Five hasn't caught on with …
Author interview no.702 with murder mystery writer Frankie Bow
Thanks to MorgEn Bailey for a fun interview and a great blog!
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How Lobster Got Fancy – one of the most remarkable rebrandings in product history
“Lobster shells about a house are looked upon as signs of poverty and degradation,” wrote John J. Rowan in 1876. Lobster was an unfamiliar, vaguely disgusting bottom feeding ocean dweller that sort of did (and does) resemble an insect, its distant relative. The very word comes from the Old English loppe, which means spider. People …
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Academic Water Cooler Flashback: The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing
An AWC flashback The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing Denial ("I'm an 'A' student!") Anger ("You've crushed my dreams of medical school with your totally unfair grading!") Bargaining [1] Depression Escalated Bargaining (including parents going full Boeing Apache on the dean) All of the special snowflakes are remarkably similar! Acceptance Revenge post on The Site That Shall Not Be …
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Simulcasting: Technical Considerations
I've been looking for a better way to duplicate full WordPress posts (not just summaries) in Blogger. EDIT: The Blogspot posts are still appearing truncated. Still working on it...
GUEST POST: Writing from the What-If by John Carenen
John Carenen is an author and a professor of English. He holds an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the prestigious University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Signs of Struggle, his first Thomas O’Shea mystery novel, was published in 2012. In the sequel, A Far Gone Night, a late night stroll by the river propels O'Shea into the middle of a …
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Today on College Misery: This is why my syllabus is seventeen pages long
Join me over at Higher Education's Premier Online Publication. Or simply read on: SCENE 1: Second Week of the Semester Student-AthleteAthlete-Student:I have to miss class because my team is traveling to the mainland for two weeks. I know the syllabus says no makeups, but I don't have a choice about going on the trip. Can …
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Can an author of police procedurals write cozies? COFFEE IS MURDER by Carolyn Arnold
Of course she can. FOR SARA, COFFEE WAS ONE of life’s greatest—and simplest—pleasures. Every time she took a draw of freshly brewed java, her eyelids automatically lowered in appreciation of the robust flavor. Somehow, when drinking it, life seemed less complicated, or maybe it was just how it coated the palate and calmed her nerves …
Today on College Misery: They’re final grades, not opening bids.
I'm blogging over at Higher Education's Premier Online Publication today. I posted final grades at 2pm. Within minutes my inbox was brimming with pleas from prodigal students, some of whom had attendance records so irregular that the names were only vaguely familiar to me; I had to double check to make sure they were actually students of …
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