Author: staff
Get all squared away by mastering Canva’s grid tools
Posted by staff / November 13, 2014From fonts to filters, Canva’s design tools offer plenty of flexibility to make your visions reality, yet another tool to manipulate the space in your images is the grid feature.
Read More10 cakes your archaeology friends will totally dig
Posted by staff / November 10, 2014Do you have an archaeologist in your life, a person with dirt under their nails and a fascination with things everyone else sees as a rock but they see as exciting evidence of the advancement of the human species?
Yeah, they’re a special breed, and in order to honor them properly on occasions such as birthdays, graduations and getting desperately needed funding, you’ll need the right cake.
Read MoreForbes: 12 surprising job interview tips
Posted by staff / November 10, 2014Jon Youshaei, contributor at Forbes, has an article that caught my eye. This is for those who’ve landed the interview but want other than the standard “sit up” and “dress well” tips. And so he set about looking for some less common tips to help you prepare. I’ve chosen 4 to tell you about. The …
Read More5 prerequisite skills of great leadership
Posted by staff / November 9, 2014Dream of standing at the helm of a successful company some day? Every solid organization needs strong leadership, so if that’s in your master plan, it’s necessary to possess these five skills in order to best captain that ship, as Entrepreneur’s Kate McKay explains.
Read More20 children’s book quotes adults should never forget
Posted by staff / October 27, 2014As adults, we spend billions of dollars every year reading more complicated versions of the exact same wisdom dished out in the books we read as children, dressed up by Dr. This or That.
Read More7 tips on dealing with toxic people
Posted by staff / October 27, 2014To a certain degree, we can limit the contact we have with toxic people in our personal lives. At work, though, things can old very quickly when we have to figure out how to deal with them day in and day out.
Read MoreThe periodic table of TED talks
Posted by staff / October 26, 2014If you spend any amount of time on the Internet, you know that new TED talks are popping up all the time on just about every topic you can imagine.
What you might not know is that there are so many of them, they can fill out their own periodic table, because — incredibly enough — there are talks featuring every element.
Read MoreWhat the Roman gladiators really ate
Posted by staff / October 23, 2014Next time the tough guy at the gym who keeps dropping weights starts bragging on his all-protein, gladiator diet, let him know what the men of Rome really ate before a vicious fight and you may finally get some peace and quiet (though they might be onto something with all the powdered beverages).
Read MoreSmall talk 101: 14 topics no one finds interesting (and 14 they do)
Posted by staff / October 23, 2014Fast approaching is the season of parties, parties, parties when more likely than not, you will be forced to make small talk if you want to ever be invited back, so Amanda Stern decided to get specific about topics that will pique the interest of your audience and those that will bore them to tears.
Read MoreThe international drama of having a very rare blood type
Posted by staff / October 22, 2014For most of us, finding enough blood for a surgery transfusion isn’t that much of an issue, much less one that involves complicated negotiations over several continents, but when you’re one of only forty people in the world with a particular type, things get a lot more complicated.
Read MoreOther ways to approach the box beyond outside [comic]
Posted by staff / October 21, 2014We’re all so busy trying to think “outside the box” that Grant Snider of Incidental Comics believes the phrase itself has created a box of its own.
The solution? New approaches to the box, of course!
Read More5 tips for creating eye-catching titles
Posted by staff / October 20, 2014Appealing wording is one way to grab your audience’s attention with a title, but another is framing it in just the right way to add visual appeal to your blog’s arsenal.
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