Y-Life Archives

How To Be Happy: 25 Things That Happy People Do

Is happiness something that can be caused, or is it primarily the result of a genetic sequence that can only be adjusted in small degrees?

As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.

Schools for Hope is a free curriculum designed to prevent youth suicide by sharing tools to find & maintain hope.

What motivates this student to “succeed” in school? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? Does it ebb & flow? Is it perishable altogether?

We have to change the way we talk about bullying. I’m convinced that we have to confront it with its psychological opposite – kindness.

What kinds of ideas and characteristics do we associate with character? What contributes to its development? Can attributes be cultivated?

We all love to share our lives via social media. This has consequences. Creepers and stalkers, for example.

Uncategorized / December 25, 2013 / The Water Cooler, Y-Life

Every Single Satellite Orbiting The Earth Presented (mostly) without commentary: What must the aliens think? Every Single Satellite Orbiting The

Education / August 30, 2012 / Y-Life

A List Of The Best Literary Put-Downs There is a kind of unwritten rule among writers that you don’t criticize

Landing On Mars: The Terrifying Physics Approaching Mars at over 13,000 mph, the descent only slows to around 1000 mph