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Based on cognitive-behavioral-therapy techniques, Vincent's virtual therapy combines videos, text and audio clips to teach the sleepless everything about good sleep hygiene, from how to relax the body before getting into bed to how not to stress out when you fail to doze off right away. (One of the worst things you can do when you can't fall asleep is lie there and dwell on the consequences of not getting enough sleep.) Participants in her study were asked to keep digital sleep diaries and practice the techniques that were demonstrated onscreen. They were also allowed...
...concepts, into thinking in “educated” terms. Gen Ed, on the other hand, aims to “connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard” such that it is revealed “how everything we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives.” The Core sees education as a kind of professional training in different types of academic thinking. Gen Ed—insofar as its rather generic and all-encompassing mandate can be formulated at all—seems...
...editor Maxim Trudolyubov will study the interaction of opinion journalism with contemporary media and society. In response to the journalism industry’s diminishing reliance on print media and its transition to more technologically advanced forms of reporting, the Foundation will introduce a yearlong multimedia curriculum designed to teach the fellows new media skills. The Nieman Foundation, which administers the oldest mid-career fellowship program for journalists in the world, has supported more than 1,300 journalists from 89 countries since its inception in 1938. --Staff writer Monica S. Liu can be reached at msliu@fas.harvard.edu...
...most ideas start out "fuzzy, weak and partially baked," says Gerald Sindell, and then they fizzle out altogether. Sindell would like to fix that. A successful book-publishing executive and former award-winning Hollywood film director, he founded a consulting firm called Thought Leaders International that purports to teach clients like Yahoo! and Accenture how to turn sketchy concepts - the proverbial scribble on the back of an envelope - into blockbuster products and services. Now he has written a nifty little book - only 134 pages - called The Genius Machine: 11 Steps That Turn Raw Ideas into Brilliance (New World Library...
Given that people have been thinking since the dawn of time, you may wonder why we suddenly need a book to teach us how to do so. Well, Sindell has an answer for that: "People have been running, too, for thousands of years. But if you want to be in the Olympics, it's generally a good idea to get a coach." (See 10 ways your job will change...