Academia

In 2011 I started a PhD program in microbiology, in 2012, I changed course and decided to get a masters degree instead. This is the story of how I made that decision. I had a life long dream of earning my PhD in the sciences. At first it was going to be astronomy so I...

Have a huge stack of magazines you still haven't gotten through? Have lots of textbooks to read so you can write a paper?  Follow 200+ blogs? Speed reading isn't just about reading faster, its about understanding and remembering what you read! It is easy to double or...

I recently read an amazing piece in Wired about how one teacher in Mexico changed his teaching style, and in one year his students went from being uninterested and failing the national standardized test to being curious learners and the top students in all of Mexico....

So you want to be a millionaire? Besides all of the other stuff you need to do like work hard, get opportunities, be prepared for success...you need a million dollar idea.  Remember you don't just get to have a million dollars, but if you provide the world with...