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25Jan

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How To Avoid This One Major Pitfall As A Coach (And How To Rise Above It)

When I began my transition out of a corporate career to start a coaching practice, I immediately noticed a disturbing trend within the coaching industry that I knew I wanted to stay far away from. A trend that once made many coaches 6 and 7 figure income earners but a tactic that is also turning many off to the benefits of coaching: telling people they need a coach. Yes, it's a saturated market and a noisy world out there. As a woman who feels passionate about helping others in your niche it's easy to get sucked into the messaging that everyone else is using; sales pages and social media posts trying to convince others how much they need life-changing info and breakthrough sessions that only a coach can provide. Programs, emails, Facebook ads and social media posts are filling up our spa...

Is Major League Baseball Still In The Closet And For How Much Longer?

29Oct

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LGBTQ

Is Major League Baseball Still In The Closet And For How Much Longer?

Peter Dreier, Occidental College In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was quietly fired in 1988 after rumors about his sexual orientation circulated in the baseball world, contended that there were enough gay major league players to create an All-Star team. Since then, attitudes and laws about homosexuality have changed. High-profile figures in business, politics, show business, education, the media, the military and sports have come out of the closet. Athletes in three of the five major U.S. male team sports – the NBA, NFL and MLS – have come out while still playing, with NFL player Carl Nassib and NHL prospect Luke Prokop coming out in summer 2021. Meanwhile, according to OutSports magazine, at least 185 ...

Persuading People To Get Vaccinated Will Be The Next Major Hurdle To Ending The Pandemic

29Jan

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COVID-19

Persuading People To Get Vaccinated Will Be The Next Major Hurdle To Ending The Pandemic

Today, more Americans hope to receive a COVID-19 vaccine than current vaccine supply will allow. Consequently, although President Joe Biden’s initial promise to dole out 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days would require a ramp-up in vaccine allocation, some consider the promise to be insufficient to meet current levels of demand and put the pandemic’s spread into decline. The current mismatch between vaccine demand and supply, however, may be short-lived. Despite concerns about lagging vaccine allocation for front-line health care workers and other vulnerable groups, health experts are optimistic that public demand for a COVID-19 vaccine will remain high in coming months as more vaccine doses become available. While it is clear that many political leaders expect public demand for a cor...

Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s and men’s brains, despite over a century of searching

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s and men’s brains, despite over a century of searching

People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes. Gustave Le Bon found men’s brains are usually larger than women’s, which prompted Alexander Bains and George Romanes to argue this size difference makes men smarter. But John Stuart Mill pointed out, by this criterion, elephants and whales should be smarter than people. So focus shifted to the relative sizes of brain regions. Phrenologists suggested the part of the cerebrum above the eyes, called the frontal lobe, is most important for intelligence and is proportionally larger in men, while the parietal lobe, just behind the frontal lobe, is proportionally larger in women. Later, neuroanatomists...

Business major fails to attract Latino students

3Aug

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EDUCATION

Business major fails to attract Latino students

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the inequity of the U.S. economy toward minority racial and ethnic groups. Research shows that successful entrepreneurship can help reduce the racial wealth disparity, especially for the Latino community. For example, Latino business owners are more likely to hire people within their communities. This results in helping lower unemployment among Latinos and increasing the purchasing power of Latino neighborhoods. Latinos make up approximately 18.5% of the American population, but account for just 4% of executive or senior-level managers, and 9% of first-and mid-level managers. They are also underrepresented at America’s business schools, representing only 12.6% of business degrees awarded at the bachelor’s level and 5.8% of those who took the GMAT in 2018, w...

Robo-umps are coming to Major League Baseball, and the game will never be the same

3Apr

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SPORTS, TECHNOLOGY

Robo-umps are coming to Major League Baseball, and the game will never be the same

The Houston Astros’ use of cameras to steal signs and conceivably cheat to win the World Series has driven many recent conversations about the place and meaning of technology in sports. The Major League Baseball season is on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, but this has only delayed the league addressing the controversy of using technology within the game. New MLB-sponsored technologies, specifically those used to call balls and strikes, will spawn an entirely new set of questions about tech in baseball. These will only heighten the sport’s identity crisis. Baseball is a game heavily rooted in its history, and beloved traditions can make it very hard to change any aspect of the game. The historical continuity of game play enables fans to compare player and team performances over tim...

3Apr

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CRYPTOMARKET, TECHNOLOGY

Major payment firms hesitate to back Facebook’s Libra

Visa and Mastercard are reportedly concerned with the regulatory scrutiny into Facebook's digital currency. Four payments companies that have joined Facebook Inc. as founding members of the Libra Association are wavering over whether to officially sign on to the cryptocurrency project, according to people familiar with the matter. Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc. and Stripe Inc. are undecided about formally signing onto Libra's organizing charter because they're concerned about maintaining positive relationships with regulators who have reservations about the project, the people said. Executives at the payments companies believe Facebook oversold the extent to which regulators were comfortable with the project and are concerned about the percept...