Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Scott Berkun - How to Stay Motivated

College students especially must find ways to stay motivated through the completion of their degrees in order to perform to the maximum of their capabilities. Writer, blogger, and speaker Scott Berkun explores some methods we can use to get motivated and sustain it through to the end of a task.

"All great tasks test our motivation. It’s easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It’s in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it’s no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things."

Click here to read the essay.

ENG 105 - Inductive versus Deductive Reasoning

Here's a resource to further clarify the two types of logic we are focused on. Click here.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Soweto residents feel exploited by District 9

Squatter camp residents report mixed feelings over sci-film crew and actors' time in area. Click here.

Delta flying empty planes across the Atlantic

Delta airlines has come under fire for flying 'ghost flights' to Heathrow. Click here.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

ENG 105 - The Sermilik fjord in Greenland

Read and comment. Given ever-increasing hard evidence in the form of scientific fact, how ethical is the protection of business interests over actual methods of dealing with and preparing for drastic climate change?

Click here for the article on the Sermilik fjord.

"If I was, God forbid, the leader of the free world, I would implement some changes to deal with the maximum risk that we might reasonably expect to encounter, rather than always planning for the minimum. We won't know the consequences of not doing that until it's way too late. Even as a politician on a four-year elected cycle, you can't morally leave someone with that problem."