Why Do Recent Grads of For-Profit Colleges Outearn Other Graduates?

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Graduates of for-profit colleges tend to be older and have more job experience.

3 Reasons You Underestimate Risk

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And what to do about it.

TED: Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime - Heather Barnett (2014)

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Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives in cool, moist areas. What can people learn from the semi-intelligent slime mold? Watch this talk to find out.

Just Whose Job Is It to Train Workers?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 17, 2014, 10:23 am EDT

By Lauren Weber Hu-Friedy, a manufacturer of dental instruments in Chicago, says its future hinges on four employees. So, it is paying them to leave their jobs for two years.While their colleagues bend and grind cylinders of steel on the factory floor, the four workers since March have been mastering the fundamentals of metal composition and heat-treating, among other things. The hope, managers say, is that the two years of full-time training will help keep the 106-year-old dental-instruments maker competitive in a mature industry crowded with rivals. What's happening at Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co.

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