Archive for June, 2007

How to Ace Your Finals Without Studying

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Holistic learning: five easy steps to ace your tests with minimal studying.

“I’ve never been that keen on studying before an exam. I rarely study for more than a half hour, even for big final exams worth more than half my grade. When I do study, I usually just skim over the material and do a few practice questions. For some of my math classes I have yet to do a single practice question for homework. Most people study by cramming in as much information before walking into the test room, whereas I consider studying to be no more than a light stretch before running.”

- Scott Young

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Free, Open Math Journal (Harvard)

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Just ran across this–the Harvard College Math Review is a free online journal, apparently featuring articles from some students and famous people. And best of all, it’s free and open!

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100 Science Words Every College Graduate Should Know

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Are you up to the challenge? Find out by reading 100 Science Words Every College Graduate Should Know, by the Editors of the American Heritage
® Dictionaries. A wide variety of new and established terms are discussed, including absolute zero, anaphylaxis, cryptography, echolocation, game theory, Kuiper belt, mitochondrion, Munchausen syndrome…

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Is the Dunbar Theory applicable in a Web 2.0 Society?

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Can Web 2.0 change the social dynamics of our social contacts enough to significantly change the way Dunbar
’s Theory of a 150 people social limit can be approached? From Facebook to Myspace - the social networking of web 2.0 is undoing 6000 years of evolved social limits.

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Another 10 things I wish I had known . . . .

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Another 10 things I’ve learned my career in software which, I’ve I’d known them sooner, I’d have worked less, been less stressed and been more successful! Go figure

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15 Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins you won’t live without

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

If you are a .NET programmer, or even just a programmer, you must know the need for great tools in the process of developing, documenting, distributing, etc

From the console compiler to the powerful Visual Studio IDE, .NET is just about coding as much as the tools.
For that matter, here’s a list of 15 indispensable VS.NET add-ins.

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