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I love reading about advertising in the early 20th century. It’s one of my favorite subjects, and it’s way too often neglected by the Internet at large. Part of it is just a fascination with the ambition of those early admen. It was truly fitting for that age of great works. While bridges and skyscrapers …
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Looking for flashcards for chemistry? Try 21st Night! It allows you to create and share flashcards with anything on them: images, videos, equations, you name it. Plus, there’s a built-in to-do list! We are better at chemistry now than at any other point in history. In 50 years, we will almost certainly be better at …
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Flashcards are an incredibly useful learning tool. In fact, they can be used to learn pretty much anything. That’s why it’s a pity that so few people use flashcards to their full potential. Flashcards can be used to learn pretty much anything, because, in short, remembering is essential to learning. Once something is taught to …
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When you’re tutoring, it’s important to keep track of what exactly you’ve taught your students, when you taught them, and their progress. If you don’t keep track of this, then each session you’ll come in not knowing what to cover next. Your students will be unhappy with your lack of preparation, and you’ll be frantically …
Making people learn is tough. I’ve taught classrooms ranging from 1 person to around 3000 (through an online course), and the gap between what I teach and what students learn has always been present. This is true for all teachers, of course, but I think I’ve felt it more than most. As someone who’s self-employed …
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Charles Sanders Peirce is one of my favorite unknown philosophers. Although problematic (i.e. virulently racist) and a bit difficult to read, he was brilliant, and wrote on a wide range of topics in an insightful way. One of my favorite ideas of his (and likely one of his most accessible) was his idea of truth. …
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Kendrick Lamar once rapped, “It’s levels to it, you and I know,” while surrounded by many bald black men. I was thinking about that recently after an interesting conversation I had with a friend and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training partner. A 200 pound former Penn State wrestler and a Harvard Chemistry PhD to be, he …
I work with a lot of LSAT clients who have struggled for a long time on the LSAT. In fact, that’s my main type of client: I’m rarely someone’s first port of call on their LSAT journey. Often, their scores have increased a bit over a long period of time (like a 145 to a …
Attention Redditors, my students, blog readers, and everyone else: just because you finished a practice test does not mean you’re done with it! You are done with a practice test when you can not only do, but explain, every single question on that practice test. You can explain, at the drop of a hat, why …
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About a year and a half ago, I had a GRE tutoring client who had a reasonably important political job. She was in her mid 30s, sharp (and sometimes cutting), and had appeared in the news quite a few times. She was also absolutely terrible at math. I mean really, really terrible. She didn’t know …
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