American higher education is an unwieldy institution. An undergraduate degree takes 4 years to obtain, costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars that leave many with piles of debt and includes countless classes with no evident practical application outside of cocktail party.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Kris Kristofferson In the context of 1776 colonial America, freedom and independence meant being free and independent from the tyranny of taxation without representation, illegal search and seizure and other nasty.
How often have you checked your inbox or the web only to realize it totally short-circuited an important task you were engaged in? How often have incoming calls, texts and/or emails undermined your level of presence with the people you.
Q: What costs $1-2B, has 27 floors, 49K square feet (roughly 117 LifeEdited apartments) requires a staff of 600 people and houses a family of four? A: Antilia, the world’s largest, most expensive single-family residence. [nggallery id=8] Antilia was.
We know there are many email providers out there–Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink–but let’s face it: the 21st Century belongs to Gmail (so far at least). No other email service offers as much versatility, great spam filters and array of tools as Gmail..
The other day Bill Weir from ABC/Yahoo News stopped by to tour the LifeEdited apartment as part of his “This Could Be Big” program. While we take gentle exception with the conditional “could”–and “big” for that matter–the video beautifully shows.
For many of us, our fiercest opponent in the battle to reclaim our attention span is email. It’s the first thing we check in the morning and the last at night. It sidetracks us throughout our day, thwarting our intentions to complete.
You’re editing your life. You tossed those jeans you haven’t worn since the Clinton administration. You automated your bill payments. You traded in those books for a Kindle. You moved to a home where you could walk to everywhere you.
In the market for a 300 sq ft geodesic dome in Seward, Alaska? Perhaps a 264 sq ft log cabin in Idaho? Or most any size yurt? If you answered yes, an appropriately-named website called Tiny House Listings has you.
Just as excessive consumer goods can make our lives more cluttered and complicated, excessive stimulation can make our minds restive and unsettled. And few things deliver excessive stimulation like online media, computers and mobile devices. We text while we pop through.