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No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters? Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

Il podcast cerca di rispondere alla domanda delle domande: che cos’è la felicità e, soprattutto, come la si può raggiungere? In ogni episodio Gianluca Gotto, scrittore e nomade digitale, affronta il concetto complesso di felicità concentrandosi sui diversi aspetti che la compongono, sugli studi scientifici che sono stati portati avanti e anche sugli esercizi che possiamo applicare alla nostra vita per provare a raggiungerla.

The slap you in your face, stop you in your tracks, colour run from your face moment that changed everything.

The world is a complex place. A complex place where answers are sometimes hard to find. But in this podcast the economy professor Micael Dahlen asks the seemingly simple questions that lead you on a winding journey into the core of what it means to be a human being.

How can we change our behaviours? The first step is understanding our habits. For better or worse, habits are the invisible building blocks of daily life. Research suggests that about 40% of what we do is repeated almost daily and yet most of the time we aren't really aware of what's happening.

Ever get the feeling that not everything is cool with school? Best-selling author Neal Pollack is dissatisfied with what his teenage son, Elijah, is learning in his studies. Neal wants to fill in the gaps, while Elijah just wants him to chill out a little. Together, they embark on the father-son field trip of a lifetime, which includes stops in New York's poetry-slam scene, a medical-marijuana dispensary, and a convention to discuss evolution with 1,700 biologists.

When you add Extra Credit to your library you will receive all 10 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 20 minutes.

We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.

È possibile mettere da parte tutte quelle cattive abitudini che danneggiano? È possibile alleggerire una vita quotidiana appesantita da frenesie e ansie? In altre parole, è possibile, in 21 giorni, cambiare stile di vita e incamminarsi su una Grande Via di salute e leggerezza? La risposta a tutte queste domande è sì e Franco Berrino, Daniel Lumera, Simonetta Barcella ed Enrica Bortolazzi ci guidano in un percorso pratico per ritrovare salute e vitalità.

"Mente senza limiti" è il primo podcast di coaching live che vi permette di ascoltare reali storie di trasformazione, raccontate dai protagonisti stessi. Gianluca Liguori ha selezionato undici persone con invalidanti problematiche comuni, donne e uomini che non riuscivano più a sentirsi felici o pienamente soddisfatti a causa di alcuni tratti del proprio carattere che pensavano di non essere più in grado di modificare, come la timidezza, la paura degli spazi chiusi, la dipendenza dal fumo.

A busca de uma vida completa parece ser uma finalidade em disputa com nossa finitude. Não à toa, o tempo se tornou o recurso humano mais valioso, assim como a construção de uma vida que faça sentido dentro daquilo que acreditamos ser bom, justo e em concordância com nossos planos e expectativas. O curso traz reflexões em torno do que entendemos por uma vida completa hoje, dos "o quês" e "por quês" dessa plenitude, até propostas da filosofia para a construção de relações menos ostensivas com aquilo que esperamos (e podemos esperar) de nós e do mundo no tempo que nos resta.

In their continuing father-son field trip to end all field trips, writer (and one-time Jeopardy! champ) Neal Pollack and his teenage son set out to explore the many topics not covered in his high school curriculum. Among them: what really constitutes a healthy lunch, why dress codes exist, and how the largely phased-out "home ec" class can be beneficial.

In The History and Future of HBCUs, Professor Crystal R. Sanders and Professor Reginald Ellis take you back to the pre-Civil War origins of some of the earliest HBCUs and walk you through the complex history of these institutions. As you witness their growth - and the power struggles that often came with the fraught political and racial landscape of the US in the 19th and 20th centuries - you will meet some of the great minds they produced. Uncover the indelible mark they have left on American education, the fight for Black liberation, and the Civil Rights movement.

Por séculos o pensamento ocidental relegou às filosofias de origem africana um papel menor, quando não desconsideraram sua existência. O curso apresenta um panorama das diversas visões sobre o que é uma boa vida nos diferentes saberes naquele continente.

Apresentamos as facetas do consumo e espetacularização do horror a partir de referencial teórico de Freud e da Escola de Frankfurt, entre outros pensadores. Trata-se de debater o gosto e os significados culturais em torno da atmosfera sinistra presente nos filmes de terror, programas policialescos e a comoção gerada em em séries e documentários sobre assassinatos que relatam acontecimentos reais. A relação entre consumo, inconsciente, cultura de massas e o medo será abordada, enfatizando estes considerados estranhos comportamentos sociais.

Tavi Gevinson founded the online magazine Rookie in 2011 when she was fifteen years old. She wanted to create a space for teens that was free of messaging telling them who they should be and instead celebrated them for who they were. Rookie attracted a thriving community until it folded in 2018. Its now-grown readers still seek out its archive and book series today.

Work is often treated as an activity that enables happiness on holidays or weekends. But most of us spend a large portion of our lives working - to live a happy life we need to be happy at work, not just outside of it. Changing your habits to prioritise happiness at work is the key. Dr Tim Sharp introduces you to 10 simple habits you can adopt in your own work life.

Do you have a dream sitting on a shelf that you're ready to bring to life? Or maybe you've begun your journey of change but feel stuck, stalled, and uncertain about what to do next. The time has come for you to create your own path—not follow the one presented to you—and you could use a powerful dose of guidance to get you there. This is exactly where you need to be. In Pivot and Pursue It, reinvention expert Coach Pamela Mitchell delivers 90 minutes of concrete advice on how to envision your next destination and then get there.

In diesen Tagen verbringen wir alle viel Zeit zu Hause. Da tut etwas Abwechselung gut. Im Original Podcast "Bring mir was bei" liefern wir montags bis freitags eine neue inspirierende Lektion oder Geschichte. Warum ist es so schwierig, sich für eine der vielen Serien zu entscheiden? Wie schneidet man sich zu Hause selbst die Haare? Warum lohnt sich ein Blick in den Nachthimmel gerade ganz besonders? Und warum schmecken manche Cocktails so viel besser als andere? "Bring mir was bei" ist wie eine Wundertüte: Jeden Tag eine neue Überraschung.