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Lots of interesting data on master's degrees over the last several decades

Amazing catalog of the best commencement speeches

Unquantifiable arenas like history and the arts are receding from public life, replaced by technology and statistics.

Graduation speeches are the last opportunity for a high school or college to educate its students. It's unsurprising, then, that these institutions often pull in some of the world's most powerful people to leave an equally powerful impression on their students. Here are the best of those speeches and some of the sections that resonate the most.

Vice president for people development at Google on nominating people for training

Cool bedrooms for kids

The right ways to receive feedback

Sometimes when hosting a Skype call – especially for a podcast – you want the other parties on your call to hear not only your voice but perhaps some audio from you, too. Since Skype only allows one audio input at a time, things get a little tricky. Don't worry, it's not too bad, and this vi

Link to great conversation and also screen casts on Mac OSX server

Keurig brewing slowly? Shorting cups? Not working at all? These easy steps have helped thousands get theirs working like new.

How parents should respond when kids make bad choices

The economic recovery is clearly here: spending on corporate training is soaring. We just completed our 2014 Corporate Learning Factbook and the research is striking: US spending on corporate training grew by 15% last year (the highest growth rate in seven years) to over $70 Billion in the US and over [...]

This article doesn't offer any amazing conclusions, but really captures well the struggle that so many women have in today's society around work.

Cool design inspiration through packaging