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7 Skills To Be Super Smart

Jake — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:36 +0000

People aren’t born smart. They become smart. And to become smart you need a well-defined set of skills. Here are some tips and resources for acquiring those skills.

Five Tips To Keep Your Car Safe At College

Jake — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:47:14 +0000

When it comes to car theft and auto burglaries, college towns generally have a higher incidence of both. If you take a step back, it’s easy to see why: targets of opportunity are everywhere. Assigned campus parking is a great place for a thief to go browsing for electronics, and it’s easy for them to spot who drives their car on a regular basis and who doesn’t.

7 Traits of Real Men

Jake — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:32:30 +0000

Men were made to be bold, strong, leaders. However, our society has attempted to repress these traits. If you look at the way men (especially dads) are portrayed on TV, you’d think we were all a bunch of irresponsible, befuddled, nincompoops, who can only function with the help of a “smart” female partner, friend, or spouse.

25 Best Places For An Online Education

Jake — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:30:26 +0000

We spent many hours of research to find out the best online institutions in the nation. To evaluate them, we looked at the following factors: cost, selection of online degrees, programmatic accreditation, special features, reputation, academic awards.

16 of the Best SciFi Cartoons

Jake — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:25:22 +0000

Science fiction and animation are a natural combination. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to draw an alien landscape covered in space ships than it is to create one in a studio. Too often forgotten as just “kid’s stuff”, there have been some truly excellent cartoons that combine science fiction and animation in absolutely awesome ways.

50 Tips to Make You a Better Leader

Jake — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:45:55 +0000

Here’s a great collection of 50 different online resources that will help you become a better leader. Bookmark this one, it’s the sort of thing you’ll keep coming back to for ideas.

16 Books That Are Still Banned

Jake — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:40:51 +0000

In the era of the Internet where you can find anything online, it might seem odd that some books are still banned. But they are. And some of them are so silly you’ve gotta wonder why…

10 Dirtiest Hotels in America

Jake — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:33:07 +0000

These are the places you don’t want to stay. Unless you like sleeping with dirt and cockroaches…

This Girl Has Mad Skillz

Jake — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:20:31 +0000

I bet there’s only one person in the world who can solves a Rubik’s cube while balancing ten books on her head and reciting pi to the 100th decimal. Total insanity. And mad, mad skillz.

10 Of The Wildest Riots Of All Time

Jake — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:10:58 +0000

There’s something deep in the human psyche that pushes us towards herd behavior. And sometimes that behavior manifests itself in mass riots. While many of us hope to never be in the middle of a riot, we can’t help but be fascinated by them from a historical perspective.