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Home health aide training can start you in a career in health care or nursing. This page has details of the training, where you can find it, and more …
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is taking its battle against Google to the next level with a new campaign called “Don’t Get Scroogled.”
The company launched a Scroogled website on Wednesday which attacks what Bing refers to as Google’s “unfair ‘pay-to-rank’ shopping practices.” This apparently refers to Google’s decision earlier this year to require merchants to pay in order to have their products come up in the results on Google Shopping. Previously, both free and paid listings were featured in Google Shopping results.
A new study has found a high incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among teenagers who have been bullied.
The study of 963 teens aged 14 and 15 in Norwegian schools found symptoms of the disorder in about 33 percent of the students who said they were victims of bullying — though it did not determine that these students were diagnosed with full-blown PTSD.
A new study published November 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology has identified hundreds of small regions of the genome that appear to be uniquely regulated in human neurons. These regulatory differences distinguish us from other primates, including monkeys and apes, and as neurons are at the core of our unique cognitive abilities, these features may ultimately hold the key to our intellectual prowess (and also to our potential vulnerability to a wide range of ‘human-specific’ diseases from autism to Alzheimer’s).
Shades use six LED lights to simulate sunlight and curb effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
To re-energize during long winter months, Seqinetic recommends users wear the glasses for up to 30 minutes a day. It adds that the light is “harmless” and “100% UV-free.” Check out the video, above, for more.
Twitter is offering as much as $1 million in free ad credits in total to 10,000 businesses to support Small Business Saturday this weekend.
Twitter announced Tuesday that it will give away $100 in free credits to each of the first 10,000 businesses who apply and are eligible for the program in an effort to help these businesses promote their brands on the social network.
Businesses can use these ad credits to purchase Promoted Trends and Promoted Accounts on Twitter, thereby getting their content featured more prominently on the site. In order to be eligible for the giveaway, the business needs to be based in the U.S., active on Twitter and a new advertiser.
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Online IT programs - get the skills for this challenging field. This page has details of the programs, the schools, the career prospects, salaries and more …
This free ALISON online yoga course will be of great interest to learners who have some knowledge and experience of yoga techniques and would like to gain a greater knowledge and understanding of more advanced techniques that will strengthen the inner core and improve flexibility.
Yoga Exercises for Core Strength and Flexibility is originally from and published by Dashama and has a duration of 1-2 Hours for the average learner.
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Find out about special education doctoral programs online and how they can prepare you for a most rewarding career. This page provides more detail about the programs and where you can take them.
This free ALISON online education course will be of great interest to professionals in the education sector who would like a greater knowledge and understanding of working with students with special educational needs, and to all students who are interested in special education.
Working with Students with Special Educational Needs is originally from and published by Global Text Project and has a duration of 2-3 Hours for the average learner.
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Find out what it means to be a substance abuse (or behavioral disorder) counselor and locate suitable substance abuse online programs.
“Last weekend, my husband and I had a night away from the baby for the first time (she’s just past ten months). Some parents have told me that seems so soon; for others, it seems incredibly late. If we had local family, I’m sure it would have happened for us sooner.”
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This page provides information on elementary education online degrees, what is studied in them, where you can study them, the prospects, and more …
For young learners, there are a plethora of apps out there to help learn how to count, and for older learners, often times a graphing calculator or scientific calculator app will do the trick. But what about all of those students in between?
You know, the ones who already know how to count, but have to learn a multitude of math concepts that most of their parents have long forgotten? We’re taking a look at 6 apps that are easy to use and teach more than just counting.
Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive — or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from TEDYouth 2011, Buechley shows some of her charming designs, like a paper piano you can sketch and then play.
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The US Navy announces that cheaper robots are going to replace their mine-clearence Dolphins soon.
The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) is pleased to announce the selection of nine American professors as the fifth group to teach at Vietnamese universities as part of its U.S. Faculty Scholar (USFS) Program. This distinguished group of U.S. professors, who will teach during the 2012-2013 Academic Year, is the largest cohort of U.S. Faculty Scholars that VEF has selected.The U.S. Faculty Scholar Program contributes to the VEF mission of bringing the United States and Vietnam closer together through educational exchanges related to science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and technology. U.S. Faculty Scholars teach in English at Vietnamese universities in their fields of expertise. Teaching may be conducted either on-site in Vietnam or by interactive, real-time videoconferencing from the United States. VEF serves as the sponsor and organizer while the Vietnamese universities serve as the hosts and the U.S. universities cooperate in the collaborative programs.
A cheap meningitis vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in Africa was ruled safe to use after several days without refrigeration on Wednesday, allowing health workers to get it to people in more remote parts.Epidemics of meningitis A occur every seven to 14 years in Africa’s “meningitis belt”, a band of 26 countries stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia, and are particularly devastating to children and young adults.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) ruling, that vaccine MenAfriVac is safe to use for up to four days at up to 40 degrees Celsius, will save money spent on expensive “cold chain” systems in the final miles of delivery, said Orin Levine, director of vaccine delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped fund the vaccine’s development.
The way we grieve, commemorate, and dispose of our dead varies greatly from culture to culture, but some traditions really take funerals to the next level of macabre.
Here are 10 of the most bizarre death rituals the world has ever known.
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Where does your school stand when it comes to adopting the latest classroom innovations?
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A computer security degree can lead to an exciting, challenging and rewarding career. This page tell you more about studying these degrees and will help you to locate suitable schools and programs.
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Find out more about some of the important movements in the development of Web 2.0 online communication software or e-tools that have impacted on, and continue to impact on, how individuals and communities communicate and learn.
Technology to help seniors age in place has gone far beyond grab bars and fall-alert buttons worn around the neck. Today, there’s a host of sophisticated products on the market, from medication dispensers that can report to a family member when their loved one forgets to take a pill to shoes embedded with GPS trackers to find cognitively impaired wanderers.
The best choices for seniors who want to stay at home depend on their medical condition, budget and personal preferences, says Marnie Renda, an occupational therapist and certified aging-in-place specialist in Cincinnati. The goal should be to make the technology fit the lifestyle, not the other way around.
The 2012 U.S. presidential elections are over at last and all of us, both disappointed and triumphant ones, can sigh with relief. Now it is time to sum it all up and see what we are to expect in the future with Barack Obama back in office for another 4 years.
To figure out how education could change, let’s look at some election pledges made by Barack Obama during the campaign period and think whether they are likely to ever see the light of day.
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As psychologists zero in on the key to a good life, it’s becoming clear that there are two distinct paths.
A forthcoming paper by Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Vohs, Jennifer Aaker, and Emily Garbinsky in the Journal of Positive Psychology looks at the difference between a happy life and a meaningful life.
With its new app, Striiv aims to create something as addictive as World of Warcraft with the convenience of Angry Birds.
What if planting crops in FarmVille only happened when you burned calories in real life? That’s what Striiv, a fitness startup in Redwood City, Calif., is hoping to accomplish with its new app, launched last week.
The Striiv fitness app, available for iOS devices, is free to download and tailors challenges and fitness-oriented games to your personal habits, and broadcasts your results on social networks. The app includes its own video game, called “MyLand,” which is powered by an iPhone user’s exercise habits -– in order to grow a plant or expand the island, the user must complete a series of challenges, from walking a set amount of steps to climbing stairs.
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This page provides details of technology management MBA programs, has links to selected schools offering these programs, and outlines the career prospects.
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Find out about online nursing programs, what is involved, the schools where you can study them, what jobs there are, what the salary prospects are, and more ..
This year’s race is showing all the signs of being even more hotly contested than four years ago. If you’re a 20-something who’s decided to make your voice heard this year, we applaud you.And as a reward, here are 20 tools to get you up to speed on the details of our democracy.
