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Brain Food: Helpful Hints for Powering Through Those College Finals (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
As finals season arrives and college students retreat to library cubicles, many are open to just about anything that can help them weather those next few weeks. Instead of late night cram sessions full of midnight pizza and instant soups, consider some recent health studies demonstrating how students can score better on those big exams.
Japanese Workers Forsake Cubicles, Embrace Outdoors (Great News Network)
Tokyo, Japan - Kokuyo, a Tokyo-based company, wants to improve worker efficiency and cut down on corporate carbon emissions so it has come up with the idea of moving its employees outside.
Puppy cam dominates Internet audience (The Villanovan)
What's six times cuter than a puppy? Six puppies. Streaming live for the past few weeks, a camera fixed on a playpen for six Shiba Inu puppies has captivated the world.
YouTube comes down hard on porn ads, suggestive content (Ars Technica)
YouTube has introduced new policies on "sexually suggestive" video clips today, and announced it will take steps to restrict access to clips even when the people involved are (barely) wearing clothes. Read More...
So just what is a 21st Century Skill? (ZDNet)
We hear a lot about 21st Century Skills lately; I'm certainly guilty of using the phrase. There's a whole website devoted to building them (actually, there are thousands, but this one has the domain name www.21stcenturyskills.org). We also know that a lot of our kids don't have them and a lot of their international counterparts are gaining them. So what are they? My superintendent sent me a ...
Angels Dispatched This Season to Administer to Corporate Cubicle Workers (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Recently, a little band of plucky, attitudinal cherubs have begun bringing smiles to the otherwise droopy faces of many of the millions of Americans who work in cubicles. Montana Artist Fish Waxler has rendered portraits in oil of these "Cubicle Cherubs" in action, and has made them available as limited edition prints on canvas. Waxler launched the website where his art is featured -- ...
Cyber Monday Shopping Off, Ready For 'Stare Down' (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
From the crowded malls of Black Friday to the stealth-like shopping that's going on in office cubicles, today's Cyber Monday shoppers were out looking for more deals.
Milwaukee County call center crippled by overload (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Though designed to cut through red tape families encounter when seeking food stamps, child care and medical help, Milwaukee County's troubled public assistance call center has become a focal point of frustration.
Soviet union (Las Vegas CityLife)
IF you read much about the real lives of spies, you learn very quickly their jobs are less James Bond and more John Doe. They spend most of their time reading, sitting, waiting, occasionally talking or drinking, but most of the time their covert activities are handled in cubicles and without a lot of intrigue. The international spy trade is largely about people sitting in cafés talking to each ...
Lessons from Open Source - SmartCause.org in Public Beta (Linux Today)
SmartCause Blog: "For several years, I worked at a Linux software company. For those of you who don't know, Linux is an operating system, like Windows or Mac. But while Windows is made by people in cubicles at Microsoft and Mac is made by people in more stylish cubicles at Apple, Linux is developed by thousands of volunteers all over the world."
