No, I’m not talking about pinching some of your DNA and automagically re-generating another you from a test-tube. But there is a way to achieve the same effect… Virtual Assistance (aka VA) More and more of today’s entrepreneurs are realising that trying to do it all yourself is jus...
While an accessible scholarly treatment of this can be found in the excellent Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (especially chapters 1 and 2), I want to focus here on some obvious distinctions among the early Stoa, Seneca, and Epictetus, distinctions that I think both illustrate how Stoicism ha...
The fear of being vulnerable: what if they start talking about their work and it becomes rapidly obvious that I have no idea what I’m doing, don’t even know what they’re doing, and heck, have no clue how to troubleshoot that Kafka cluster?! It can be hard to hear or face these...
The first example of successful targeted cancer treatments dates to the 1970s, when tamoxifen was approved for the treatment of estrogen receptor‐positive breast cancer.1 In 1984, the proto‐oncogene ERBB2, which encodes the signaling receptor also known as HER2, was discovered in a particularly ...
no matter what your good intentions it will never be enough,and if not this episode another will come along and you will always be the bad guy cuz you’ve taken it before,they found your weak spot,kindness?well bullying has been around a long time and adults tend to continue the habi...
I’ve found it difficult to explain the experience of attending a con as a early-career writer to people who have never been to a con and are not writers, but I will try now. It is incredibly intense. It is both one of the best times ever and an enormous amount of work. It sound...
I do have some target dates in mind by the time I begin a rough draft, based on the premise that the project will go fairly smoothly. And since I don’t write a huge amount of words every day, I can generally adapt as I go when there are snags. A lot of my writing time is ...
A free spirit has the courage to test life’s boundaries and limits, and to try things that other people think are impossible, unimportant, or impractical. (These other people are often wrong.) A free spirit often has her own unique vision of life and the world. ...
For example, practical courses and internships were significantly affected during online education; their survey found that more than a quarter of schools did not implement online practical courses, and more than one third of schools did not implement online internships at all [15]. However, the...
While infested grains were described in Sumerian clay tablets as early as 1900–1700 BC, the first authenticated Chinese writing reporting on the use of ergot in obstetrics dates back to 1100 BC [7]. An Assyrian tablet describing fungal contamination of grains as a “noxious pustule in the ...