Since today is Friday, I thought a little bit of useless information is needed. It is especially needed to divert students away from their studies for a few minutes since it is finals week here.
With that in mind, the first thing you can check out is an interesting graphic called The Life Cycle of [...]
Being that this week we celebrated Earth Day, I think it is important to highlight how you can do your part in an office to become less paper intensive. Creating paper is pretty labor intensive. If you’ve ever seen the History Channel tv series Ax Men, just getting at the trees [...]
Wikipedia, everyone’s favorite encyclopedia to love or hate, will soon be published as a hard copy in German. Wikipedia has approximately 740,000 German language articles and will reduce that number to around 25,000 (or 50,000 depending on which news report you believe) articles for their 1,000 page book. This new book will be [...]
If you’re interested in listening to a lawyer talk about copyright & how the online world interacts with this, I’d suggest checking out the “Real Deal” podcast from CNet. The two moderators talk to Collette Vogele about copyright, what is OK to do online (fair use) and what isn’t, and how you can protect [...]
As a humanities major myself, the question that I inevitably got asked was, “What are you going to do with your history degree?” People didn’t see the usefulness of studying something like history. It doesn’t translate neatly like a business, economics, or finance degree does into the corporate world. That’s not a knock on those [...]
