This is embarrassing, but I ’ve had my “California Earthquake Survival Kit” on my “To Do” list for the past two years. Does this sound familiar? Do you think you’ve got time? Well, the reality is that maybe you do, but why be caught unprepared when the Big One hits? Take a quick look at […]
The mysterious Egypt pyramids are the most studied structures ever built. They tell a story of the past and future with it’s mathematical accuracy and synchronicity of events using the stars and constellations embedded within the design. The combination of mathematics, astronomy, architecture, and sacred geometry used are interwoven in such a way that there […]
It’s no secret that the first year of any teaching job is almost always the hardest. I believe that this is especially true for special education teachers. There is nothing that I learned in any of my undergraduate or graduate courses that truly prepared me for surviving my first year of teaching special education. I’m […]
Facts You Must Know No two people have the same reaction to bed bugs, making it difficult to properly identify them. Some people do not get bed bug rashes, no matter how many times they are bitten. This makes those people think that they are not being bitten. No one is immune to being bit […]
Advice on Implementation of Nursing Interventions for acute pain In the acute care settings such as medical, surgical, pediatrics, or labor and delivery, you will come across all kinds of people that are in acute pain for many different reasons. You will only get to impart 12 hours, maybe 15 hours after charting is done, […]
“We will remain the same, until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change.” ~Unknown~ Education has been an area of struggle, contention, and disparity for centuries. America has always been a pluralistic and multicultural society that desperately tries to operate within the context of a single dominant culture. Reform […]
Shark attacks in the Mediterranean are thankfully very rare indeed. Some folk may be relieved to hear the Mediterranean sharks are among the most endangered sharks in the world having been fished almost to extinction, but the loss to the world’s ecomarine system may have wide ranging results. Top of the oceanic food chain, the […]
How do birds mate? Which organs do the male bird use to mate? Do female birds have organs? Birds mate by joining at their cloaca so that the sperm of the male bird can go from his cloaca to the female’s. Confused? Here’s a quick overview on how birds reproduce, have sex or mate with […]
What sharks live in the Mediterranean Sea, you might well ask, and are there ones there we should be scared of? There are indeed 15 potentially dangerous sharks in the Mediterranean, out of approximately 47 different species, contrary to what some people would have you believe. Obviously the Tourist Boards in the whole area prefer […]
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 (MMPI-2) is a complex personality test. It consists of 567 true/false questions that weigh in on different scales to determine your personality, as well as validity questions to ensure that you are not lying. This test is used in many different ways, some more controversial than others, including: diagnosis […]
A Quick Overview of the Various Bad Options In the hundreds of blog posts / essays that I have written over the last few years, I have never directly addressed the Israeli / Palestinian conflict. This is partly because I am ambivalent about the whole thing, having listened to strong (and weak) arguments from people […]
While leadership has been a topic of interest since the dawn of man, leadership and management studies were taken up in earnest in the early 20th century. This hub chronicles a kind of evolution in leadership behavior studies from the traits of effective leaders to follower-centered leadership theories proposed in the late-20th, early 21st century. […]