It would be really nice to have some info about each programming non-profit. E.G. Why they are in your donation list. What they do. Why you like them. Why I should donate to them.
They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them.
As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I don't know whom to give to. I could complete the registration by facebook/twitter, but I can afford to give a little bit and don't want to go the free route.
I came close to closing the tab, thinking I would come back later, but I also know I might forget and I don't want to miss out on what looks like a great con!
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Great question. You can find out more about each non-profit by hovering your mouse on their logos on the homepage. You can also visit their websites by clicking on a logo, for even more deep information.
I think this kind of eating really follows from having a partner and a family. It is much harder to have the kind of motivation to do this on your own. In many cases however I think these are idealized meals, not necessarily everyday meals.
I imagine if they did a photo series on what the worlds bachelors ate for breakfast it would look much different.
I can only say this from experience traveling around the mediterranean, but this seems to be a pretty common breakfast.
Some olives, feta cheese, a boiled or fried egg, some sliced tomatoes and cucumber, fresh brown bread with butter and some jam or honey. Once prepared you can quickly make little sandwiches, and is quite tasty!
These meals are pretty easy to put together, when tomatoes are good my wife and I often switch off on making breakfast and can whip this up for ourselves pretty quick. It's much more enjoyable than our normal greek yogurt, granola, and fruit.
Protected Bike lanes are great and hopefully we start getting Protected Intersections to go with them.
This site has a great video which describes the protected intersection. Having traversed them quite a bit as a cyclist, motorist, and pedestrian, they are delight to use.
This site is brilliant, and thank you for that link. I followed some of the citations. The video on the site makes it seem like it's an experimental idea, but to be clear, here is this dutch video showing that exact design in use - today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA
I can only dream of living in a place where I could bike with such safety. I regularly get honked at/shouted at in Philadelphia --- for biking in bike lanes, because, apparently, drivers in Philly believe that it is their sovereign right to drive in green painted bike lanes when they wish to turn right. Maybe I should revise my "move to Canada" life plan, and make it "move to Amsterdam".
This design radically reorients your attention to that which is in front of you thereby significantly reducing the chance that you will miss something or "not see" that ped/cyclist, etc.
In many intersections a big part of this includes clearly marking whom has the right of the way through an intersection negating the need for signals which leads to far less intersection congestion.
* As a pedestrian the ease of crossing at intersection is unmatched, no more walking halfway into the intersection to see around parked cars.
* As a cyclist it fundamentally transforms the experience. Every ride can be taken at ease and in comfort. No more fighting for your life.
* As a motorist you worry much less about hitting a cyclist or pedestrian because they are always in front of you where you can see them. NO more straining to check every blind spot 3 times before a turn.
There is far too much pessimism her about the experience of reading novel series. I've massively enjoyed the experience of reading ASOFIA, the world building, character development, politics and intrigue.
The worlds in series like this are massive and the end of a series is the last chapter the author deigns to write. Sure they might be building towards something, but you can enjoy the series all the same without the "end".
I read 1-5 ASOFAI in 6 months, having started just before the series aired. Do I look forward to the next in the series, of course, but in the mean time I have read > 60 other books some of them 2 or 3 times.
Don't get stuck on one series, one author, or one genre, there is so much good fiction out every year that you will never be able to read it all.
This app seems to reverse the trend of separating NPR from local content as does the regular NPR app. When I use the regular NPR app I either listen to the local stream, or more commonly, grab all the newest segments from Morning Edition or All Things Considered, throw them in a playlist, and listen. In this way I miss all the local content.
This new app seamlessly mixes in content from your local station and features the local content prominently.
I think they have done a fantastic job here and are working hard to do good by their local stations.
This has very little to do with some conspiracy between bankers and universities to indebt students and raise massive capital by massively expanding the university far beyond it's means.
Deep into this article the author hits on what is really at the core of steep tuition inclines. A rapidly reducing share of university funding coming from state governments turning once public institutions into defacto privatized universities.[1]
In this chart [2] UWashington lays out in 2013 dollars that total tuition per student has been around 17,000 for 25 years, however during that period the state contribution was reduced from $14,000 to $5000, while student tuition rose from $3,000 to $12,000
> "This is an important shift in who pays for higher education. In 1990, the state provided nearly 80% of the funding per
student and UW students paid 20% of the funds. In 2011, the state will pay around 30% and UW students will pay 70%." [3]
> In this chart [2] UWashington lays out in 2013 dollars that total tuition per student has been around 17,000 for 25 years
If true, that would make UWashington a shining beacon of frugality and equality (or a really low-end university). That tuition has been massively outpacing inflation is something I have heard from too many different sources to dobut, so the question is: Is UWashington lying in that paper, or is exploding tuition something that affects only a small number of universities (and thus students), and in the latter case why don't students switch to cheaper universities?
"Total tuition" and "tuition charged to student" are two different numbers in this formulation.
"tuition charged to student" has jumped ~9k on top of inflation to compensate for a ~9k decrease in per student state funding.
As to why students don't switch to cheaper universities? Because when it comes time to find that first job academic reputation and professional network matter at least as much and often way way more than having a particular degree.
> "tuition charged to student" has jumped ~9k on top of inflation to compensate for a ~9k decrease in per student state funding.
I got that, but that's a factor 4 increase, whereas the OP article's claim is that it has increased by a factor of 12.
> As to why students don't switch to cheaper universities? Because when it comes time to find that first job academic reputation and professional network matter at least as much and often way way more than having a particular degree.
But if it's a mainstream problem, wouldn't that imply that the majority of students are now visiting "reputable" universities with great professional networks, which would make it less valuable as a distinguishing characteristic?
They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them.
As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I don't know whom to give to. I could complete the registration by facebook/twitter, but I can afford to give a little bit and don't want to go the free route.
I came close to closing the tab, thinking I would come back later, but I also know I might forget and I don't want to miss out on what looks like a great con!