We are all infovores: getting the right information is central to our lives. Getting the right and most accurate information is even of greater importance in this 21st century. With the explosion in citizens' information creation and distribution and the rise of fake...
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Audiobooks: What They Are And 12 Rocking Benefits of Using Them.
"Audiobooks" is a term that almost sounds familiar to you immediately you hear the term. The term seems to need no introduction, yet, it actually deserves every introduction it can get. Audiobooks are what everybody has an idea about but actually knows little or...
Cost Of Building a Small Home Library and How to Source For Funds — A Comprehensive Guide
Either rich or poor, having a small home library should not be a taboo for anyone that is interested. Apart from the obvious benefit of having a stockpile of knowledge organized somewhere in the house, creating a small home library from scratch can impart a sense of...
Information Overload: What Science Tells Us About It and Five Ways to Combat It
Information Overload is “a wealth of information [which] creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it”- Herbert Simon, 1971 [1] Even if you have never heard of the...
10 Ways to Tell a Scholar Apart From a Fool
Do you know it's compulsory you know how to tell a scholar apart from a fool? It's a very necessary skill to have if you don't want to be a fool in today's world! You see, these days, many ignoramuses are pretending to be scholars, and their guises are so effective...
Minding Your Business: 5 Ways You Are Not Minding Your Business and How It is Affecting Your Life.
"Mind your business" is a phrase we often hear. However, it's a phrase many of us have also learn to regard as offensive. If only we can think more of the benefit everybody will gain if that phrase is put into action, we would easily conclude the phrase is not...
10 Misconceptions About Schooling and College Education
Honestly, I didn't know how to start this essay. I have been thinking about it for days. While planning it, this topic at first seems to me like a simple one; at least as far as the title goes. But then I consulted the breadth of my scope and the depth of my...
Fake News: How to Spot It and Stop It.
Fake news is here, and there is bedlam all around the world because of that. Prior to the 2016 United States Presidential election, only a few of us were conversant with the term "fake news". It wasn't a term loosely thrown around as it is today. However, since then...
Why Apprenticeship May Still Be The Best Way to Learn.
This is 2019. We entered the 21st century and a lot of dreams started going dead. A mass of young human beings entered that century as adolescents transforming into adults, while believing they have arrived to be the natural maintainers of the steady progress in...
To Do List Demystified : A Beginner’s Guide to Creating an Effective To-do List.
Do you frequently get overwhelmed by the tasks you have to do? The confusion, urgency and the necessity of doing it all scares you so much you wish you are just somewhere else or someone else? Don't worry. You are not alone. Almost everybody have experienced this at...