motherjones: We learned something new today. Er. (via) “I did not know this. Thank you for educating me.” -Wes Foster

motherjones:

We learned something new today. Er.

(via)

“I did not know this. Thank you for educating me.” -Wes Foster

Source: motherjones

world-shaker: This 15 year old just won $75,000 for developing a test for pancreatic cancer that’s over 90 percent accuracy, and 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests. “Yes!!! Teenagers Rock.” -Wes Foster

world-shaker:

This 15 year old just won $75,000 for developing a test for pancreatic cancer that’s over 90 percent accuracy, and 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests.


“Yes!!! Teenagers Rock.” -Wes Foster

Source: societyforscience.org

laughingsquid:

Sleeping Backseat Kid Wakes Up Rocking Out to Nirvana Song

“This is disturbing to me.” -Wes Foster

Source: Laughing Squid

At some point potential students will realize that they can’t flip their student loans for a job in 4 years. In fact they will realize that college may be the option for fun and entertainment, but not for education. Prices for traditional higher education will skyrocket so high over the next several years that potential students will start to make their way to non accredited institutions.
The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Any Time Soon « blog maverick (via caterpillarcowboy)

Hmmm….

Source: blogmaverick.com

laughingsquid: How To Improve the Worst Mother’s Day Gifts Ever “Put these into Practice.”-Wes Foster

laughingsquid:

How To Improve the Worst Mother’s Day Gifts Ever

“Put these into Practice.”
-Wes Foster

Source: Laughing Squid

tballardbrown: Bestselling Christian chick lit author ReShonda Tate Billingsley‘s Facebook recently posted a Facebook photo of her daughter and it’s going viral. The photo is part of her daughter’s punishment for abusing social media.  The photo’s been shared 3,600 times and counting, with most of the comments regarding it being favorable. One poster’s commends Billingsley’s no-nonsense approach: “This is YOUR CHILD, not everybody else’s! You are her parent! I approve because if you don’t do it now, the jails or worse are waiting for her! Thank you for being courageous in training your female child to be a productive citizen of our world.” Another commenter opined, “I am so through with these uber-permissive parents telling us we’re invading our children’s privacy and embarrassing them unfairly by taking control and stepping up to the plate as moms and dads. Go, ReShonda, you have my full support!” Only a very small minority of posters dissented. What do you think? Is it ever cool to publicly punish your child? Were you ever punished in full view of friends and/or strangers? Would you try this method with your own kid? (via Putting Your Kid On Blast: Yea or Nay? | Clutch Magazine) “This. Is. AWESOME!”-Wes Foster

tballardbrown:

Bestselling Christian chick lit author ReShonda Tate Billingsley‘s Facebook recently posted a Facebook photo of her daughter and it’s going viral. The photo is part of her daughter’s punishment for abusing social media. 

The photo’s been shared 3,600 times and counting, with most of the comments regarding it being favorable. One poster’s commends Billingsley’s no-nonsense approach: “This is YOUR CHILD, not everybody else’s! You are her parent! I approve because if you don’t do it now, the jails or worse are waiting for her! Thank you for being courageous in training your female child to be a productive citizen of our world.” Another commenter opined, “I am so through with these uber-permissive parents telling us we’re invading our children’s privacy and embarrassing them unfairly by taking control and stepping up to the plate as moms and dads. Go, ReShonda, you have my full support!” Only a very small minority of posters dissented.

What do you think? Is it ever cool to publicly punish your child? Were you ever punished in full view of friends and/or strangers? Would you try this method with your own kid?

(via Putting Your Kid On Blast: Yea or Nay? | Clutch Magazine)

“This. Is. AWESOME!”
-Wes Foster

Source: clutchmagonline.com

Truth. #BeWise

Truth. #BeWise

Source: freak-out-and-panic

smarterplanet: The Faculty Project The best Professors from the world’s leading Universities are coming together to teach online FOR FREE! The Faculty Project brings academia’s most outstanding professors to the computers, tablets and smartphones of people all over the world. All courses will be free with open enrollment for anyone with an Internet connection. This is pretty amazing when you think about it. -Wes Foster

smarterplanet:

The Faculty Project

The best Professors from the world’s leading Universities are coming together to teach online FOR FREE!

The Faculty Project brings academia’s most outstanding professors to the computers, tablets and smartphones of people all over the world.

All courses will be free with open enrollment for anyone with an Internet connection.

This is pretty amazing when you think about it. -Wes Foster

Source: smarterplanet

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou (via myquotelibrary)

Focus on growing yourself as a leader, not highlighting the fallacies in anothers leadership. That improves nothing but bitterness among friends. -WesFoster

Source: quotelibrary.info

thedailywhat: Inspirational Motivational of the Day: In the coolest move a pro sports team will make this week, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed as a free agent former Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, who was paralyzed from the neck down in 2010 while playing for Rutgers. Bucs coach Greg Schiano was the coach at Rutgers when LeGrand was injured: “Leading up to the draft, I couldn’t help but think that this should’ve been Eric’s draft class. This small gesture is the least we could do to recognize his character, spirit, and perseverance. The way Eric lives his life epitomizes what we are looking for in Buccaneer Men.” LeGrand’s doctors feared he would spend his life a quadriplegic and on a ventilator, but he is killing it in physical therapy. He tweeted a picture of his progress last summer: “Standing up little by little in therapy,” he wrote. LeGrand returned to the football field on October 29, 2011, one year after his injury, leading the Rutgers team out onto the field at Rutgers’ stadium. The occasion was voted the magazine’s Moment of the Year and graced the cover of Sports Illustrated‘s 2011 year-end issue. LeGrand’s latest tweet is a pic of a Buccaneers helmet, accompanied by: “We ready!!!” [starledger] The Bucs will be very successful!

thedailywhat:

Inspirational Motivational of the Day: In the coolest move a pro sports team will make this week, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed as a free agent former Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, who was paralyzed from the neck down in 2010 while playing for Rutgers. Bucs coach Greg Schiano was the coach at Rutgers when LeGrand was injured:

“Leading up to the draft, I couldn’t help but think that this should’ve been Eric’s draft class. This small gesture is the least we could do to recognize his character, spirit, and perseverance. The way Eric lives his life epitomizes what we are looking for in Buccaneer Men.”

LeGrand’s doctors feared he would spend his life a quadriplegic and on a ventilator, but he is killing it in physical therapy. He tweeted a picture of his progress last summer: “Standing up little by little in therapy,” he wrote.

LeGrand returned to the football field on October 29, 2011, one year after his injury, leading the Rutgers team out onto the field at Rutgers’ stadium. The occasion was voted the magazine’s Moment of the Year and graced the cover of Sports Illustrated‘s 2011 year-end issue.

LeGrand’s latest tweet is a pic of a Buccaneers helmet, accompanied by: “We ready!!!”

[starledger]

The Bucs will be very successful!

Source: thedailywhat