'Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails ... at the present time ... regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract ... This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.' --John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease (1883)

The single biggest reason the oil price crashed: inelasticity.If you have to stay home because of the coronavirus, you're not going to drive more - no matter how cheap gasoline gets.Source: https://t.co/GOttVMyAaT pic.twitter.com/PxcEPWky0V— Economics in Bricks (@econinbricks) April 20, 2020

OpenFin used this pitch deck to raise $17 million from investors.

The pitch deck is a presentation that entrepreneurs put together when seeking a round of financing from investors. On average pitch decks have no more than 19 slides.

Check out the best ideas from Hubspot's #SummerStartup Competition

Venezuela has just about every economic advantage a country could ask for: fertile land, good climate, educated population, and oil, lots and lots of oil. So how did it go so wrong?

Natalie Hampton knows what it's like to have no one to sit with during school lunch. So she created Sit With Us, an app that helps kids find friendly harbors in the crowd.

Director - Bif Executive Producer - Natalie Arnett Producer - Tom Birmingham Director of Photography - Dan Stafford-Clark 1st AD - James Dyer Gaffer - John…

At least eight pharmaceutical companies sell a decades-old drug that treats gallstones, but the competition has done little to keep its price down.

Somewhere, right now, a cash-strapped parent or budget-limited patient with a severe allergy will skip acquiring an EpiPen.

what elevator pitches are and how it helps to record them

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Technology (Tech) Education In Digital and Global Environments (EDGE) Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Technology Info...

Technology is enabling better soft skills, but there are some unintended consequences.

In this Digital Pedagogy Lab Workshop, we’ll explore some of the common rhetorical techniques companies who create ed tech use to sell their products. We’ll ...

Back in March, I published some notes about blogging in case people were interested in setting up a blog to use in conjunction with all-of-a...

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Six cool apps and websites that are worth a look this year. (Plus two more!!)

It’s a new year and it’s a great time to try out a few new tech tools. Here’s my annual round-up of apps and sites I think are worth a look, plus two more extra just for the heck of it. The 2020 Teacher’s Guide to Tech is now available at

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Danielle Arnold-Schwartz is a teacher of elementary gifted ...

This piece by @SaRoseCavIf you’ve entered 2020 thinking social media is a waste of time just think carefully about how to use it for good. Here’s how I think you can use it for good. https://t.co/eRteXRWkUE— Academics Write (@academicswrite) January 2, 2020

Now that Friends is no longer on Netflix, binge watch free professional development videos from #DitchSummit @jmattmiller. My biggest takeaway from the 2017 #DitchSummit was learning about @Flipgrid. 2 years and I'm still using it in my classes daily. https://t.co/Y9sthW4iMD— Pooja K. Agarwal (@PoojaAgarwal) January 2, 2020

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a ...

Don’t follow the Domino’s model of fighting web accessibility in federal court. There are already standards in place that businesses can use.

A new book offers advice for instructors looking to further integrate technology in their classrooms.