I absolutely love stories about people like Beth Chadwick of Ontario, Canada. Every community has someone like her, people who are what my wife and I call “show-uppers.”
Beth is deeply woven into the fabric of her community. She helps prepare and deliver sandwiches for the Men’s Street Ministry, assists seniors from her church with getting to appointments, volunteers at the Flamborough Food Bank and Dundas Cactus Festival, and still finds time to coach baseball and cheer on her granddaughters at every dance and gymnastics competition.
Beth also went through knee surgery and survived breast cancer through it all. Incredible.
Giving a kidney to a stranger is called a non-directed donation. Donations like this often trigger an average of five additional kidney transplants because they complete a chain of potential matches. It’s probably one of the single most impactful things that the average, healthy adult can do.
“It's essentially risk-free and so needed," Eisenberg told TODAY.com in a separate interview. "I think people will realize that it's a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination."
A newly published meta-analysis found that when schools provide kids with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs, their grades go up too. The effect size is modest but significant, roughly a five-percentile bump, or equivalent to a 0.1 GPA increase. Also, the effect size of programs longer than four months is double that of shorter programs.
Still, the idea that we can teach social and emotional skills in school—and not just academic topics—will hopefully become more common.
Researcher indicates that students’ social, emotional, and cognitive development is strongly connected and integral to students’ effective learning and positive academic outcomes…Although children and youth also develop social-emotional competencies (SECs) from their everyday life situations, they widely vary in their opportunities for exposure to such experiences that benefit their outcomes. If the goal of schooling is to support the academic achievement of all students to reach their fullest potential, then providing all students with the opportunities to access experiences that improve SECs is vital to this process.
Every company does at least some things that don’t make money, or at least aren’t closely tied to making money. What those things are tells you a lot about what the company values.
One thing Apple’s been consistent about for years is building best-in-class accessibility features for the users of their products. There’s really no other tech company that comes close. And yet, I’d be shocked if what Apple invests in accessibility is profitable for them. I think they just do it because it’s right.
Anyway, watch this video to get a clear picture (pun intended) of something that Apple values.
More than ever, we have to rely on the explainers who can help us understand new achievements in science and technology. In this episode, we'll hear from one of the most prolific science and tech journalists of the last few decades, David Pogue, to help us make sense of it all.
Over 5 million people in the US live with paralysis, caused by injury, stroke, or disease. A pioneering therapy clinic called Neuroworx is leading the way into life-changing treatment for people with paralysis. Learn from Dr. Dale Hull, its co-founder.
“The real trade secret was that there was no secret.”
Elizebeth Holmes—Founder of Theranos—raised billions of dollars in startup capital. The entire company failed to produce a functioning technology, putting customer’s lives in danger and defrauding investors.
Tyler Schultz recounts his harrowing experience as a young graduate
Do you feel like you have a calling in life? Is there something when you wake up each day that you feel you are meant to do? If you don’t feel like you do, this episode will help you find what you’re missing. We’ll learn from Prof.
