The Hyperlinked & Searchable Chambers' 1869 'The Book of Days' MyFridgeFood - Home Newspaper Map We have indexed all newspapers and plotted their correct locations, in 39 countries. Might have missed some. And most newspapers in another 199 countries, a bunch of them not in their correct locations. "The immediate usefulness of Newspaper Map is readily apparent." "News of the World, One Click Away" Sam Grobart, New York Times "I think this mash-up of Google Maps & every online Newspaper in the World is very, very cool" Bill Gross, Founder of Idealab & UberMedia A boatload of more press here
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Can Reading Make You Happier? Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence. I have to admit that at first I didn’t really like the idea of being given a reading “prescription.” I’ve generally preferred to mimic Virginia Woolf’s passionate commitment to serendipity in my personal reading discoveries, delighting not only in the books themselves but in the randomly meaningful nature of how I came upon them (on the bus after a breakup, in a backpackers’ hostel in Damascus, or in the dark library stacks at graduate school, while browsing instead of studying). But the session was a gift, and I found myself unexpectedly enjoying the initial questionnaire about my reading habits that the bibliotherapist, Ella Berthoud, sent me. Bibliotherapy is a very broad term for the ancient practice of encouraging reading for therapeutic effect.
Our World in Data — Visualising the Empirical Evidence on how the World is Changing 10 Myers-Briggs Type Charts for Pop Culture Characters The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) is an instrument to define your personality along four parameters: (I) Introversion vs. (E) Extroversion, (N) Intuiting vs. (S) Sensing, (T) Thinking vs. (F) Feeling, and (J) Judging vs. Read how the test came to be in the mental_floss article Myers, Briggs, and the World's Most Popular Personality Test. 1. If there is any universe with an unlimited number of characters, it would be Game of Thrones. 2. The ponies of My Little Pony run the gamut of personalities. 3. A vast majority of the characters we love from The Lord of the Rings are heroes, but they all differ somewhat. 4. Fanpup gave us a personality chart for the characters of The Walking Dead. 5. This MBTI chart profiling the characters of the Harry Potter universe went viral a couple of years ago, credited to tumblr user Simbaga (the writer) and DeviantART user Makani (the artist), yet no original links for the chart exist anymore. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New — Life Learning Forget overpriced schools, long days in a crowded classroom, and pitifully poor results. These websites and apps cover myriads of science, art, and technology topics. They will teach you practically anything, from making hummus to building apps in node.js, most of them for free. edX — Take online courses from the world’s best universities. Coursera — Take the world’s best courses, online, for free. Coursmos — Take a micro-course anytime you want, on any device. Highbrow — Get bite-sized daily courses to your inbox. Skillshare — Online classes and projects that unlock your creativity. Curious — Grow your skills with online video lessons. lynda.com — Learn technology, creative and business skills. CreativeLive — Take free creative classes from the world’s top experts. Udemy — Learn real world skills online. Codecademy — Learn to code interactively, for free. Stuk.io — Learn how to code from scratch. Udacity — Earn a Nanodegree recognized by industry leaders. Code School — Learn to code by doing.
How to write letters of recommendation for high-school students | The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher I hate this time of year. Week after week, my email is flooded with requests for letters of recommendation. It's not my students' fault. And I doubt these letters play a role anyway. One highly competitive college asks teachers to address the following questions in our evaluation: Has the student demonstrated a willingness to take intellectual risks and go beyond the normal classroom experience? Isn't this information that the student has already provided in one of the essays or somewhere else in the application? Many teachers work with students brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and building confidence so all of the information in the prompts above is usually revealed in the student's application. Yes, some students are on their own like I was back in 1990 when I filled out one college application. If a student is still on his or her own, the college gets enough other data to make a decision. To survive in teaching, I've learned to problem solve. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.