The 'Greater Tuna' vet premieres his new comedy in the town that helped give him his start.
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Content Marketing and Blogging: Eight Ways to Increase Your Readership
The more you invest in your readers, the more they’ll reciprocate and invest in you, so keep their best interests at heart and make value your number one priority.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Plain Language Matters
The Al Jazeera news network described its recently announced layoffs as "a workforce optimisation initiative," trying to smooth over the sting with fancy-sounding words.
Read More »SXSW: The Mars Virtual Reality Experience – More Than a Game
The Mars 2030 Experience is not just a video game, but a highly detailed and accurate simulation of the surface of Mars, based on data and photographs from the Mars Rover and a European satellite orbiting the red planet. It's part of a larger effort to determine the feasibility of establishing human habitation on Mars.
Read More »SXSW: Voter Technology Panel – One-Sided View on Voting Tech
“Voter Technology: A Reimagined Future”, a presentation at SXSW, focused on bringing election technology into the 21st Century. The speakers included Diego Bernal, a social worker and member of the Texas House of Representatives for San Antonio, and Peter Jackson, Public Sector Strategy Lead at IDEO, a design and consulting company based in San Francisco. Their goal: Use modern technology to facilitate the registration and voting process. They covered the motivations, possibilities and issues surrounding technology and voting.
Read More »Changing the Way Schools Look – Alternatives to Traditional Grade Levels Can Enhance Instruction and Save Money
Thinking beyond the typical K5 elementary school, grades 6 through 8 middle school and grades 9 through 12 high school model.
Read More »Gadget Review: Clug – The Simple and Stylish Bike Holder
The Clug is one of those brilliantly simple products born out of necessity that will make any cyclist's home a touch more stylish.
Read More »New Software Spotlight: Adobe Experience Design (Adobe XD) CC (Preview)
Adobe has just released a new Mac-based program (English-only as of this release) of its new application design and prototyping tool, formerly known as Project Comet. Adobe Experience Design CC, also known as Adobe XD – the two names refer to the same product – was built from the ground …
Read More »NY Woman Claims Her Body Brews Alcohol to Evade DUI Charge
A very rare condition known as auto-brewery syndrome in which the body converts ordinary food into alcohol.
Read More »St. Patrick – The Man Behind Worldwide Celebration of Irishness
It is ironic but somehow fitting that St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, synonymous with all things Irish, when in fact he wasn’t even Irish. Patrick was born around A.D. 390 in Roman Britain to a wealthy family and led a life of casual privilege until he was kidnapped by raiders at the age of 16 and spirited away to Ireland, where he spent more than six windswept, chilly years as a slave tending sheep in the vicinity of Killala.
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