The Overprotected American Child
Why not let them walk to school alone? Parents and communities are figuring out ways to give their children more independence—and it just may help them to become less anxious, more self-reliant adults.
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Posted on 2018-06-02T17:04:34+0000
Of course US birth rates are falling – this is a harsh place to have a family
The US is one of only four countries in the world with no government-subsidized maternity leave while 36% of the workforce are contract laborers with no access to benefits
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Posted on 2018-05-29T14:56:09+0000
Why we should bulldoze the business school
The long read: There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years
Hasnain says:
"As someone who has taught in business schools for decades, this sort of finding doesn’t surprise me, though others suggest rather more incendiary findings. One US survey compared MBA students to people who were imprisoned in low-security prisons and found that the latter were more ethical. Another suggested that the likelihood of committing some form of corporate crime increased if the individual concerned had experience of graduate business education, or military service. (Both careers presumably involve absolving responsibility to an organisation.) Other surveys suggest that students come in believing in employee wellbeing and customer satisfaction and leave thinking that shareholder value is the most important issue, and that business-school students are more likely to cheat than students in other subjects."
Posted on 2018-05-29T04:02:49+0000
‘Spider-Man,’ a Migrant in Paris, Scales Building to Save a Child
Mamoudou Gassama, from Mali, crawled up several balconies to pull the child to safety. The French president said Mr. Gassama would be granted legal status.
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Posted on 2018-05-28T22:28:40+0000
Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern
The Visitor Pattern is one of the most mis-understood of the classic design patterns. While it has a reputation as a slightly roundabout technique for doing simple processing on simple trees, it is actually an advanced tool for a specific use case: flexible, streaming, zero-overhead processing of co...
Toshiba's loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline
Flash memory inventor jumped ship 24 years ago, pointing to Japan tech woes
Hasnain says:
"He was unfazed by the critics. "Money is not the issue," Masuoka said. "I just want to continue with research and development. Japanese engineers must be rewarded.""
Posted on 2018-05-27T18:19:59+0000
How psychotherapy improves poor mothers’ finances
Cognitive behavioural therapy made poor women in Pakistan not only happier, but also better off financially
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Posted on 2018-05-27T07:27:54+0000
The woman who can smell Parkinson's
Meet the woman from Perth whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed.
Hasnain says:
This is extremely exciting. I wonder how the research has progressed since
Posted on 2018-05-27T07:24:12+0000
The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
The tech industry, especially the security industry, seems outrageously overwhelming to newcomers and even as an intermediate “InfoSec Pro” there seems to be an overwhelming number of paths and topics one can focus on. The problem most of us, especially newcomers, encounter is that we don’t kn...
Curb Cuts - 99% Invisible
If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban c...
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Posted on 2018-05-27T01:11:30+0000