Continue readingAttractive Students Score Lower on Standardized Tests
Attractive Students Score Lower on Standardized Tests
"Prettier students are dumber" post appears on HBR blog, then disappears without a trace
Too-engaging lecturers can breed overconfidence
"Eloquent and engaging scientific communicators in the mould of physicist Brian Cox make learning seem fun and easy. So much so that a new study says they risk breeding overconfidence. When a presenter is seen to handle complicated information effortlessly, students sense wrongly that they too have acquired a firm grasp of the material." See, …
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Uh-oh. I just discovered BookBub.
It has three million subscribers and growing. @JimKukral and Bryan Cohen (@bryancohenbooks) of the Sell More Books Podcast have a running joke about all of the free advertising they do for BookBub on their show. What is it? Basically, it's an author's dream mailing list. BookBub sends notice of free or discounted ebooks to its database …
Congratulations to A.M., winner of the first Goodreads giveaway of The Musubi Murder
Congratulations to A.M, who was the lucky Goodreads Giveaway winner out of 815 entries.
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A Formula to Stop You from Overcommitting Your Time
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Win a signed advance reading copy of The Musubi Murder this weekend
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Musubi Murder by Frankie Bow Giveaway ends February 23, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases:
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It turns out it was all a dream: Strange Horizons’ “stories we’ve seen too often”
1) Person is (metaphorically) at point A, wants to be at point B. Looks at point B, says "I want to be at point B." Walks to point B, encountering no meaningful obstacles or difficulties. The end. (A.k.a. the linear plot.) 2) Creative person is having trouble creating. Writer has writer's block. Painter can't seem …
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Interview: Andrew Weston, author of the #1 Amazon bestseller The IX
Andrew Weston is a Royal Marine and Police veteran from the UK who now lives on the beautiful Greek island of Kos with his wife, Annette, and their growing family of rescue cats. An astronomy and law graduate, he is a writer of fiction and poetry. Creator of The IX as well as the Guardians and Cambion Journals series, …
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Auto-populating a Blogspot blog with WordPress posts
So I've set up my Wordpress blog, and I'm pretty happy with it (except for the fact that their restrictions on iframes and javascript means no cool Amazon or Zazzle widgets). My WP posts automatically post to Facebook, Tumblr, and Google+. But what about Blogger, Google's blog publishing tool? My Gmail address automatically entitles me to a Blogspot site, and I …
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Would you plug in the printer?
Employers have devised some ingenious methods for winnowing down their applicant pools. The "would you plug in the printer" common-sense job interview test is an interesting one. It's not immediately clear to me what the right course of action is. Should you take the initiative to plug in the printer without asking permission, when you …
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