Learning in Other Ways in Rojava
By Comune-info In Rojava, in Syrian Kurdistan, the Mesopotamian University of Social Sciences in Qamislo and, above all, the Women’s University of Rimelan challenge the traditional way of conceiving...
View ArticleScans Don’t Find Much Difference in Brains of Kids With or Without ADHD
By Sarah Avery-Duke While providing little evidence of brain differences that are identifiable by MRI, the finding points to the need for more refined imaging techniques to better characterize the...
View ArticleIf We Want Our Kids To Find Fulfillment and Change the World, We Need To...
At some point, people collectively began to bestow more respect and prestige to individuals with college degrees. Experts believe this is largely because of technology, as its introduction into the...
View ArticleDan Pontefract: One Guidance Counselor Away From Helping Others
By Bryan Wish Dan Pontefract is a leadership strategist, author, keynote speaker and trusted advisor. He is a best-selling author whose award-winning books include LEAD. CARE. WIN.: How To Become a...
View ArticleRace Skews Experimental Alzheimer’s Blood Test Results
By Tamara Bhandari-Washington University A fourth blood test, the PrecivityAD test, is equally effective at detecting early Alzheimer’s disease regardless of the race of the person being tested, the...
View ArticleCalming Excited Neurons May Improve Stroke Recovery
By Tamara Bhandari-Washington University The researchers believed that, in the aftermath of a stroke, calming overexcited neurons might prevent them from releasing a toxic molecule that can kill...
View ArticleThe Hungry-for-Knowledge Tourist
She looked at the old parchments, So fragile, brittle and so very rare, It was the beginning of her love affair. Studying every inch of the document, She knew what every sign and symbol meant. It was...
View ArticleThis Campus Takes ‘Learning Environment’ Literally
By Molly McCluskey The stark, Brutalist-style buildings in Washington, D.C.’s Van Ness neighborhood seem an unlikely target for sustainability retrofitting. But when the campus of the historically...
View ArticleMore Than a Theory, More Than a Trend: Making Your White Anti-Racism a...
By Michal ‘MJ’ Jones “White silence is violence. White allies, speak up!” It was not until I was thirteen, when my mother and I packed up and left the Midwest for the Bay Area, that I was introduced...
View ArticleClimbing Enough Stairs a Day Could Cut Heart Disease Risk by 20%
BY ANDREW YAWN-TULANE Taking at least 50 steps climbing stairs each day could significantly slash your risk of heart disease, according to a new study. The study, published in Atherosclerosis, found...
View ArticleWhere You Live Shapes Your Thirst for Sugary Drinks
BY TUFTS UNIVERSITY The decision to reach for a sugary drink is heavily influenced by where you live, a new study shows. While an analysis of the Global Dietary Database for the years 1990, 2005, and...
View ArticleMichael Lush: Replace Your University
In this episode of Championship Leadership, we are thrilled to interview Michael Lush, Founder, and CEO of Replace Your Mortgage and Replace Your University. Growing up in the mortgage industry,...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Manage Academic Stress and Maintain Your Overall Mental...
Whether you are an online student or attend classes on campus, nobody is exempt from feeling the effects of living in our bodies and the universe’s cosmological fabric. Even though our minds are more...
View ArticleUniversity Workplace Health Promotion Programmes: Getting the Balance Right
By Dr Hayden McDonald Workplaces have a role to play in their employees’ health and mental wellbeing. Health promotion programmes are supposedly designed with this in mind, admittedly with other...
View ArticleYoung People Will Save the World Because We’re the Last Generation That Can
By Keara Sosa The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital — and young people like me are fighting hard to...
View ArticleAt My School, Early College Is for All Students. It Should Be at Your School,...
By Rachel Romano, The 74 This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. One of the ninth...
View ArticleFront Porch Politics: A Tennessee University Censors Left-Wing Speech.
By Skylar Baker-Jordan The second Trump administration has not even begun, but here at East Tennessee State University, the administration is already bootlicking. For the twelfth year, the...
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