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Jon Stewart Slams Harvard Over Cheating Scandal

Jon Stewart Slams Harvard Over Cheating Scandal

Harvard University‘s recent cheating scandal has been an embarrassment for one of the nation’s greatest schools. And on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made that fact very clear to his audience. To refresh your memory, around 125 students were accused of cheating on a final exam at the university last year, with ...

Stress Affecting Millennials More Than Older Generations

Stress Affecting Millennials More Than Older Generations

According to the latest Stress in America survey by the American Psychological Association (APA), Millennial generation adults (ages 18-33) are seeing an increase in stress levels while older generations’ levels decrease. Millennials rated their stress levels an average of 5.4 on a scale of 1-10. The APA rates low stress levels as 1-3, middle as ...

Kno Gives Publishers the Power to Easily Create Interactive Textbooks

Kno Gives Publishers the Power to Easily Create Interactive Textbooks

Kno, a developer of digital textbook software, has announced a new service that gives authors and publishers the ability to create fully interactive ebooks from normal PDFs or flat files. The service, called Advance, was created to give publishers the power to easily generate engaging textbooks from existing material, at no additional cost — in ...

Young Athletes Should Play for Fun to Reduce Injury

Young Athletes Should Play for Fun to Reduce Injury

Fun may be just what the doctor orders to help young athletes reduce injury, according to a new study out of Loyola University Medical Center. Sports medicine specialist Dr. Neeru Jayanthi and his colleagues found that young athletes who spent a disproportionate amount of time playing a single sport, such as tennis, over other sports and ...

10 In-Demand Jobs with Six-Figure Salaries

10 In-Demand Jobs with Six-Figure Salaries

Before declaring a major, you no doubt did some research on the earning potential of various careers. And the results of that research may have made you second guess yourself about a particular career path. Earlier this week, we informed you that engineering majors topped the list of best paying majors for college graduates. Meanwhile, ...

UC Berkeley Launches Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship

UC Berkeley Launches Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship

Starting this year, the University of California at Berkeley‘s Graduate School of Journalism will offer an annual fellowship focused on food and farming to five lucky journalists. Designed for early to mid-career journalists, the fellowship will award $10,000 to each chosen fellow for the purpose of traveling and reporting on a variety of food and ...

Harvard Forces Withdrawal of Dozens of Students in Cheating Scandal

Harvard Forces Withdrawal of Dozens of Students in Cheating Scandal

Last Friday, Harvard University imposed academic sanctions on approximately 60 students as a result of a cheating scandal involving the final exam on a course on Congress, while initially implicating over twice that number when the scandal first began to unfold last year. The trouble began in spring semester of last year, when a TA for ...

How to Handle The Blizzard

How to Handle The Blizzard

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a blizzard coming tomorrow. They’re saying it might be up to a foot of snow in New York and close to two feet in Boston, where I’m currently located. Personally, I don’t buy it- I’ve heard of snowstorms and blizzards coming every winter of my life, often twice, and ...

Ubuntu Smartphones Coming in October

Ubuntu Smartphones Coming in October

Originally slated for early 2014, smartphones featuring Ubuntu’s mobile operating system will begin shipping early, starting in October of this year. The Wall Street Journal spoke to Ubuntu developer Canonical’s founder and CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, who broke the news. Ubuntu’s foray into the smartphone market will arrive nearly nine years after the release of their ...

Five Coursera Courses Approved for College Credit Recommendation

Five Coursera Courses Approved for College Credit Recommendation

Today, the massive open online course site, Coursera, announced an incredible feat for online education. Five Coursera courses, four undergraduate and one vocational, have been approved and recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT). College students may now be able to avoid the classroom and still ...