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To help students get up to speed on basic research skills, here’s 10 tips to help you find, organize, and use the information you need to put together a decent research paper. These tips will help put a decent bibliography and a body of notes and data at your fingertips when you sit down to write up your paper. Although evaluating sources is also a necessary part of doing good research, it will have to wait for its own post, as it’s too big a topic to reduce to a bullet point here....

The best way to improve your writing is to write, as much as you can. The tips above will help give you direction and point out areas where you are likely to find weaknesses that undermine your written work. What tricks have you come up with to make the process of writing more productive and less painful?

Here’s a suggestion for the beginning of an academic year: Make and keep a resolution or two to address what’s really urgent in your academic life. If, for instance, like J. Alfred Prufrock, you tend to think that “There will be time, there will be time” and endlessly defer getting to work, resolve to work as though the first weeks of class are already the last few. Every semester I talk with students who acknowledge that they could benefit from this resolution — they begin with Ds and Cs and sometimes, much later in the semester, when they make a real effort, they get Bs and As....

Spinach Treats Anemia Spinach is an incredibly iron-rich food, one serving clocking in at 21% of the recommended daily allowance. It is actually one of the best plant-based source of this mineral that you can eat. This makes it a great choice for those who suffer from iron-deficiency anemia. Without enough iron in the body, it is impossible to make enough red blood cells which take oxygen from the lungs to all the cells in the body....

Your every move feels energized. Yet, at the same time, tranquilizing thoughts of relaxing around your crackling fireplace tempt you. If you love the fall, you’ll completely understand the following sentiment: 1. You appreciate the glorious sounds. Geese honking overhead, as they fly further south to warmer climates, where the food is still readily available. School buses whisking apprehensive children back to their classrooms. The wind, rustling the ever changing leaves, encouraging them to drop like confetti to the ground, creating a carpet....

But how to get more customers? How to spread a message of your excellent consultancy skills? This infographic shows you 7 very powerful marketing tips for a successful consultant to follow in order to walk on the way to a wider audience of customers. What works best for a consultant? Is it blogging or online advertising? It depends on the business you are in as a consultant. Blogging is an inexpensive way for marketing your service but you have to keep in mind that blogging brings results in the long run....

Misophonia. This term literally means “hatred of sound”. The clinical diagnosis deals more specifically with a hatred of naturally occurring human sounds. Experiencing rage due to being cut off in traffic is one thing I think we can all empathize with, but people diagnosed with misophonia are lit into fiery rages from the most subtle of human sounds such as people masticating food, chewing gum, or even simply breathing. These triggers do not require extreme cases like obnoxiously chomping on food with an open mouth, aggressively smacking on gum, or breathing heavily....

Over the past 15 years, there have been advances made by researchers in making more than just an effort in understanding the complexity of the brain and pinpointing areas of chemical balances. Dr. Malenka has become a leading expert on the tiny gaps, called synapses, that occur during the transmission of nerve cell activity signals. The challenge is great, since there are trillions of synapses in the human brain. Recently, melanocortin circuit’s contribution to anhedonia-like behavior was found, and Dr....

It’s astounding just how many people have fallen into this fallacy that handsome or beautiful people are the only confident people in the world. Why is it that society has focused solely on the aspect of physical beauty? Especially to assign a value on something that’s so absurdly vague? Think about it for a second, we take something that is generally only a person’s opinion, and then just base an aspect of life on it?...

As a new year approaches, many of us will be looking forward to brand new adventures. But what is it that elevates a regular, experienced traveler to a “master traveler”? Is it money? Dedication? Survival skills? U.K. company Hotels4U (which has also created an infographic detailing how to take the perfect holiday selfie, if you’re interested) has detailed everything you need to become a master traveler next time you go on an adventure....

In September of 1960, J.F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon in the first presidential candidates’ debate. Kennedy’s opening statement in that debate has now become the famous “I am not satisfied” speech. Besides the rhetorical power of that speech in its repetitive use of the phrase “I am not satisfied…”, what is interesting about it is how Kennedy used it to pull the rug out from under what he knew would be Nixon’s strategy for the debate: Red-baiting....

Love Isn’t An Easy Street As much as love is portrayed as romantic and against-all-odds fantastic, the reality is that relationships and marriage takes work to cultivate and bloom. There’s so much psychological research based on why marriages fail but not nearly as much asking what actually makes marriages succeed. It’s this perspective that has led us to believe that arguing is a negative sign of failure and incompatibility with someone we love....

Is it better to opt for an all-you-can-eat buffet or go to a Michelin star restaurant that serves fine dining? Is it better to spend limited time with your partner after work every day or spend the whole weekend doing something together? Is it better to have 10 pairs of cheap jeans or one pair of well-made designer jeans? While our decisions are based on particular situations at any given moment, it’s interesting to find out how our perception of defining what is best for us has changed over time....

Since a picture really is worth a thousands words, the Narrative Clip is the perfect tool for documenting every moment that counts in your life. No longer do important moments or events have to be just a distant memory. With the Narrative Clip, you can simply look back at photos taken throughout your life and relive them all over again; it basically gives you the ability to have a photographic memory....

The spender can look something like this: 100 | 0 | 0 “Live” with 100% of your monthly income. “Save” with 0% of your monthly income. “Give” with 0% of your monthly income. And the saver can look something like this: 80 | 10 | 10 “Live” with 80% of your monthly income. “Save” with 10% of your monthly income. “Give” with 10% of your monthly income. So what are you: a spender or a saver?...

A 35-year old woman wore skinny jeans while helping to move a house. She kept at the work even when she felt a tingling sensation in her legs, and then had her blood flow cut off and nerves damaged by her tight jeans. Her condition at the hospital was so terrible that she had to be placed on an IV drip for four days until she could walk again. This is an extreme scenario, and should not mean that you need to take your skinny jeans and dump them in a bonfire....

Becoming a step-dad is akin to becoming a father, but there are a few important differences that I’ve learned matter a lot. For one thing, it happens pretty quickly — one minute you’re single, the next minute you are surrounded by children in varying stages of development. There’s no slowly growing into your role or nine months of anticipation. Here’s a few of the other things I’ve learned over the last half-year....

Siri is very much a beta product, but can give the user some handy ways to do things quickly while not interrupting their workflow. First we will outline some of the quick things that you can do with Siri to get things done. Sending messages and emails “Here is your messages to Rutherford. It says, “I will be late for the party”. Ready to send it?” From here you can do a number of things....

Aside from the obvious benefit of being able to speak to others and having increased job opportunities available, bilingual people also experience a number of cognitive benefits, such as increased spacial abilities, better memory skills and they are better at multitasking as well. Aside from this, bilinguals feel more connected to other cultures and for those children who come from two separate cultures and learn two languages early, this can even drastically increase self-esteem and the likelihood of success in areas of education....

So, a management system to keep things from falling a part will become compulsory, at some point. For those of you who reached this point, today’s post describes a system that proved its efficiency in the last year for me. Oh, and for those of you too much into GTD, this will sound almost too relaxing to be true. :) The Blogging Buckets The first thing you should do is to mentally break down the process into 3 realms, or, in much mundane terms, buckets....