What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. Jane Goodall, George Eliot. Source: The art of asking questions – freeCodeCamp.org Read on for tips on not only the questions we ask ourselves, but also of…
Verizon has since backtracked on the plan to charge Remind. You no longer have to use this hack to get free text messages from Remind if you are a Verizon customer. This past week Remind announced that as of January 28, 2019, SMS notifications to Verizon customers will no longer work. Everyone is in a tizzy, and…
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You can only live your life asleep or awake. There isn’t any in-between. You are mentally here, or you are mentally elsewhere. This is the reason changes oftentimes doesn’t happen. Source: Going Through Life Asleep – Drew Tolbert I love the thought experiment he proposes.
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On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged children. These books are part of a flood of resources—summer coding camps, after-school code clubs, apps designed to teach kindergarteners the…
Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with…
I got the chance to go into Mike Franz’s high school gov & econ class when they were playing YOLO, a year-long game where one week of school represents one year of life. The first week of the game the students are 18 years old, the last week of the game they are near retirement…