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Health Check: What Should Our Maximum Heart Rate Be During Exercise?
You have your runners on, your FitBit is charged, but now what? When you exercise, your heart and breathing rates increase, delivering greater quantities of oxygen from the lungs to the blood, then to exercising muscles. Determining an optimal heart rate for exercise depends on your exercise goal, age, and current fitness level. Heart rate… Read More
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Groovy Findings: Researching How and Why Music Moves You
When Stevie Wonder’s 1972 hit “Superstition” comes on, you might find yourself bobbing your head, tapping your feet and maybe even dancing along. This phenomenon is widespread and seemingly automatic, but why humans consistently react this way to certain music is still unclear. The questions of why and how music can make us want to… Read More
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12 Jobs for Geography Majors
Geographers are students of the natural environment and human population of the Earth. They work in some capacity across many fields analyzing political and natural boundaries. As cartographers, photogrammers, and GIS specialists, they make maps that may provide information about everything from traffic patterns to tree density to crime rates. Others work as land surveyors,… Read More
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The Key to Finding Your Ideal Job After Graduation
Today, career pressure starts early for students. The excitement that comes from stepping onto campus for the first time, being handed a dorm room key and meeting neighbors in a residence hall is too short-lived. As soon as midterm exams swing around and career fairs start popping up, those feelings of excitement can quickly turn… Read More
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What Parents Should Do to Help Students Prepare for the First Year of College
As the school year begins to wind down, high school seniors – and those who care about them – typically have their eyes on two prizes: getting into college and graduating from high school. While both milestones are worthy of celebration, there’s much more that students and parents should do after those two milestones are… Read More
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This Is How You Can Stand Out From the Crowd in a Very Competitive Job Market
The employment market is saturated with graduates who have good degrees and the right qualifications. So the question on many recruiters’ minds is: what else can this candidate offer? Employers have been reporting a “skills gap” in graduates for a few decades now and there is research to support its existence. Many employers feel there… Read More
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How 3D Printing Is Transforming Our Relationship with Cultural Heritage
A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, The Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing “may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did”. These enormous hopes for digital fabrication, and especially… Read More
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How People Manage Their Intake of Tempting Foods
It’s happened to most of us – we walk past a restaurant, cafe or bakery and something catches our attention. A delicious smell wafts out the door and our tastebuds start tingling. With so much cheap and easily accessible food in the Western world, it’s almost unavoidable. Sometimes we don’t even need to have seen… Read More
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What Is Public Service Loan Forgiveness? And How Do I Qualify to Get It?
The first group of borrowers who tried to get Public Service Loan Forgiveness – a George W. Bush-era program meant to provide relief to those who went into socially valuable but poorly paid public service jobs, such as teachers and social workers – mostly ran into a brick wall. Of the 28,000 public servants who… Read More
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Universities: Increasingly Stressful Environments Taking Psychological Toll – Here’s What Needs to Change
Every year, millions of international students travel to different countries to study at university. This, together with a lack of public funding for universities, has created an increasingly competitive market in which universities work directly against each other to chase students and the money they bring. This shift was heralded by the introduction of a… Read More
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The Dying Art of Conversation – Has Technology Killed Our Ability to Talk Face-to-Face?
What with Facetime, Skype, Whatsapp and Snapchat, for many people, face-to-face conversation is used less and less often. These apps allow us to converse with each other quickly and easily – overcoming distances, time zones and countries. We can even talk to virtual assistants such as Alexa, Cortana or Siri – commanding them to play… Read More
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Donald Trump 2020 Re-Election — On Higher Education and 6 Other Key Issues
While most of our 2020 coverage sheds light on the presidential challengers, we would be amiss if we didn’t do the same for the incumbent, President Donald J. Trump, who is running for re-election. Without further adieu, here are President Trump’s positions on higher education and other important issues. Here is what Donald Trump stands… Read More
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Everything You Need to Know About the Common App
There’s nothing more tedious, repetitive and especially expensive than having to fill out a separate college application with mostly the same information for every college you want to apply. But thank goodness for the Common Application, or the Common App for short. Established in 1975, the Common App is a one-stop shop to build a… Read More
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Amy Klobuchar 2020 — On Higher Education and 6 Other Key Issues
In 2006, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) became Minnesota’s first female U.S. senator, and she has held onto that position ever since. As the daughter of a teacher and sportswriter, Klobuchar is a product of middle-class America. Her grandfather, who was a coal miner, saved up money in a tin can to send Klobuchar’s father to college.… Read More
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Bernie Sanders 2020 — On Higher Education and 6 Other Key Issues
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made income inequality a buzzword of the Democratic primaries in 2016, and now is seeking the nomination once more in what looks to be a more competitive field in 2020. The independent senator and self-described democratic socialist from Vermont made waves three years ago when he mounted a surprisingly strong challenge… Read More
