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Learn How To Prepare For Your First Company Team-Building Event — No Awkwardness Required

17Dec

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Learn How To Prepare For Your First Company Team-Building Event — No Awkwardness Required

Atending your first company team-building event can feel a little intimidating—especially when you’re not sure what’s on the agenda. Will it be icebreakers, problem-solving challenges, or just casual bonding? The good news: you don’t need to know everything to make the most of it. Start by going in with an open mindset. Team-building events are designed to strengthen collaboration, not put anyone on the spot. Be willing to participate, even if activities feel outside your comfort zone. Showing effort matters more than being perfect. Dress appropriately by checking the event details ahead of time. If it’s off-site or activity-based, comfortable attire is usually your best bet. When in doubt, business casual works for most environments. Most importantly, use the event as a chance to conne...

The Best Care Packages & Gift Kits For Post Surgery

14Dec

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The Best Care Packages & Gift Kits For Post Surgery

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From Comic-Con To Couture: The Mainstream Rise Of Geek Culture

14Dec

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From Comic-Con To Couture: The Mainstream Rise Of Geek Culture

Once upon a time, fandoms lived on the fringes — comic book shops, niche forums, and weekend conventions were the sacred spaces of the passionate few. Fast forward to today, and “geek culture” has taken the global stage, reshaping what’s cool, wearable, and worthy of the spotlight. From the runway to the radio, Marvel heroes, anime icons, and video game aesthetics now drive some of the biggest trends in fashion, music, and entertainment. The shift began with storytelling. Marvel’s cinematic universe didn’t just dominate box offices — it redefined the cultural narrative. Characters like Iron Man, Black Panther, and Spider-Man became style muses, inspiring entire clothing lines and collaborations with major fashion houses. Streetwear brands dropped capsule collections emblazoned with com...

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14Dec

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Will Longevity Apps Make Us Healthier?

Longevity app calculates your life expectancy – but will it make us healthier? Would knowing the date of your death influence your actions? It did for Tiberius Caesar. Convinced by the court astrologer Thrasyllus that he had many years of life ahead of him, the paranoid old emperor chose to postpone the murder of his heir Caligula. But by believing Thrasyllus’s prediction and letting his guard down, Tiberius inadvertently gave Caligula enough time to poison him first. The rest, as they say, is history – which Thrasyllus had altered by deliberately overestimating his employer’s life expectancy. While many of us are unlikely to find ourselves in Caesar’s position, knowing how many years we have left may influence many aspects of our life – including when to retire, whether to take a lon...

14Dec

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Comic-Con Culture Is More Than Fun

For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun – it’s sacred, a sociologist explains. Picture a packed stadium of fans in extreme weather, all clad in their favorite jerseys, cheering and cursing at their favorite American football team or European soccer club. Or a crush of screaming fans, singing and dancing in unison at a Taylor Swift or K-pop concert. Or a sea of costumed “Star Wars” fans, lightsabers aloft, filling up movie theaters on opening night of a new movie. Plenty of people like to watch sports, attend concerts and go to the movies. But what about those fans – the die-hard ones, if you will – whose dedication goes even further? The fans whose daily lives are deeply intertwined with their interests? Die-hard fans tend to have a detailed, intricate knowledge. They collec...

14Dec

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Get Your Green On

How The Color Of St. Patrick’s Day Went From Blue To Green. St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers. So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patrick’s Day was once a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there’s even a color known as St. Patrick’s blue. ‘True blue’ Historians don’t know much about St. Patrick. But they believe he was born in the fifth century as Maewyn Succat. He wasn’t Irish; rather he was born in Wales, the son of a Roman-British official. He was, however, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved in Ireland. After six years he went back to Britain but r...

St. Patrick’s Day: It’s Paddy, Not Patty!

14Dec

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St. Patrick’s Day: It’s Paddy, Not Patty!

It's been maybe 10 and a half years since I last celebrated St. Patrick's Day in Ireland and through traveling around this fine world, I've had this conversation too many times to count: Someone: 'Where are you from?' Me: 'Ireland.' Someone: 'Oh, you're Irish! Me too.' Me: 'Really? What part of Ireland are you from?' Someone: 'Oh, I've never actually been to Ireland. My great-grandmother was Irish.' Me: 'So where in America are you from?' There's no day in the whole year that this conversation happens more than on March 17th... or the Saturday after if it falls on a weekday. There's also the whole rigmarole of me also having to prove I'm Irish on occasion due the fact that six years in England and four in Korea has led to my accent being a bit askew. Also living with a Canadian bo...

14Dec

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St Patrick’s Day – Celebrating Green

While you may or may not want to be "wearing of the green" on St. Patrick's Day, you may still bring the best of luck to you and yours with any type of celebration to welcome and open the door to Spring, which is part of the St. Pat's Day festivities. It is just so enjoyable to go from the lackluster bland colors of Winter to the vibrant and enticing shades of green and Spring. One of the staples of a St. Patrick's Day dinner is Irish Soda Bread. There are so many different recipes available on the 'net that you can pick and choose to your heart's delight. This bread is so named because "baking soda" is the leavening agent and the "X" cut into the top of the loaf is a sure fire way to ward off any evil spirits that may be lurking around. Watching the St. Patrick's Day parade from New Yo...

What Is The Truth About St. Patrick’s Day

14Dec

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What Is The Truth About St. Patrick’s Day

In 1997, my students and I traveled to Croagh Patrick, a mountain in County Mayo, as part of a study abroad program course on Irish literature I was teaching for the University of Dayton. I wanted my students to visit the place where, each July, thousands of pilgrims pay homage to St. Patrick, who, according to lore, fasted and prayed on the summit for 40 days. While there, our tour guide relayed the story of how St. Patrick, as he lay on his death bed on March 17 in A.D. 461, supposedly asked those gathered around him to toast his heavenly journey with a “wee drop of whiskey” to ease their pain. The mention of whiskey left me wondering if St. Patrick may have unintentionally influenced the way most of the world celebrates the holiday today: by drinking. It wasn’t always this way. The F...