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The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs for College Students. Having a little trouble getting motivated?

The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs for College Students

From school responsibilities to personal calendars and social commitments, college students find themsselves stretched in too many directions. To give you a little boost, we've generated a list of the top 100 productivity and lifehack blogs for college students. Here they are, arranged by category, but in no particular order. Most Popular Following is a collection of some of the most sought after blogs about productivity on the Web. 43 Folders: Productivity guru Merlin Mann gives advice on "simple ways to make your life a little better.

" Organize your life with the advice and tools found on these informative blogs. Your Life. Get more done at the office with helpful tips and advice from these bloggers. The Daily Saint: Avoid being a workaholic with the tips found on this blog, which urge readers to find the right work-life balance. Let the experts share their professional approaches to organizing your life at home and at work. Did I Get Things Done? 100 Incredible YouTube Channels for History Buffs. If you love history, or just want to learn more about it, YouTube has exactly what you need.

100 Incredible YouTube Channels for History Buffs

Always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information, YouTube delivers channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel. You’re sure to find just the right information you need for your lecture, lesson plan, or perhaps just your personal viewing pleasure. General History These videos can give your students a better insight into historical events. Art History From ancient Greek sculpture to post-Modernism, YouTube has it all. The Smithsonian: Enjoy lectures by renowned experts covering the worlds of art, design, history, culture, science and technology.An Introduction to Art History: This is the introduction to a series of videos discussing art history.

Music History How music has changed over the last several hundred years! Cultural History Anthropology is an amazing study with many interesting debates intertwined in theory. Cryptozoology Online: Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) - the world's best cryptozoology organisation - main page. Book-A-Minute Classics. Got another book report to do?

Book-A-Minute Classics

English teachers have the inconsiderate habit of assigning mammoth-sized works of literature to read and then actually expecting you to do it. This wouldn't be so bad except that invariably the requisite reading is as boring as fly fishing in an empty lake. Half of those books don't even have discernible plots. And let's face it -- the Cliff's Notes are pretty time-consuming too. Worry no more. "That's nice," you say, "but I don't believe you. " Latest additions: 4/6/12 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. And, on Book-A-Minute SF/F... If you liked Book-A-Minute Classics, try our other Book-A-Minute pages: And try our companion site: Learn Sanskrit through self study. Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank. 6359.

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15 styles of Distorted Thinking. 15 styles of Distorted Thinking Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.

15 styles of Distorted Thinking

Polarized Thinking: Things are black or white, good or bad. 500+ Atheism vs. Theism Debates. Critical Thinking By Example. 1.1 Two Conventions for Standardizing To standardize an argument is to break it down into its components in a manner that shows the logical relationships between the parts.

Critical Thinking By Example

An argument, in our technical sense, is a reason or reasons offered in support of a conclusion. So, for anything to qualify as an argument it must have two components: at least one reason and one conclusion. Standardizing involves identifying these component parts. Thus with respect to example 1.1: The conclusion is "he is tall", and the reason to believe the conclusion is "John is over 2 meters tall". If all arguments were as elementary as example 1.1, there would be little call to develop standardization conventions, but arguments can be quite complex, and so we need to develop some notation to keep track of everything.

The premise, 'P1', is offered in support of the conclusion, 'C'. The associated diagram is given in 1.4: