" This chunky infographic examines the origins and (d)evolution of the student loan leviathan. "

" the vice chancellor of academic affairs, cited concerns that it could have a “negative effect” on students who transferred to a California State University or University of California campus and could not get credit for the Kaplan course. Under the agreement, which was apparently never used at any of the state’s 112 community colleges, Kaplan was offering students a 42 percent discount, making the cost about $216 a credit, compared with $26 a credit at the community colleges. "

"Kick a Ginger" from 2009

"Kick a Ginger" from 2008

"Kick a ginger" from 2008

"I pledge to be a servant of our President." Service brings citizenship. Would you like to know more?

"The words had been carefully chosen in an effort to take away the rhetorical targets of health-overhaul foes and replace them with terminology that would bring ordinary Americans on board. But under steady attack from opponents using more-emotional language, some of the president's allies are rethinking the linguistic strategy.'

"We are calling on pastors and Christian leaders nationwide to hold forums in your churches where these matters can be discussed and exposed. And it’s to that end that we are sending you the material in this package - so that you can create your own townhall meeting, just as our founding pastors did more than two centuries ago, to inform and activate the people in your pews and communities."

"The marketplace in which most commerce takes place today is not a pre-existing condition of the universe. It's not nature. It's a game, with very particular rules, set in motion by real people with real purposes. That's why it's so amazing to me that scientists, and people calling themselves scientists, would propose to study the market as if it were some natural system — like the weather, or a coral reef. "

"The rich, as a group, are no longer getting richer. Over the last two years, they have become poorer. And many may not return to their old levels of wealth and income anytime soon."

"Since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001, about 2,100 troops have been formally diagnosed with TBI. But officials estimate up to 150,000 troops may have suffered concussions — mild TBIs — from roadside bomb attacks."

" "The persistent rumor in the anesthesia community was that redheads were difficult to anesthetize," Sessler said. "They didn't go under, had a lot of pain, didn't respond well to anesthesia. Urban legends usually don't start studies, but it was such an intriguing observation." This led to two studies. In 2004, research showed that people with red hair need 20 percent more general anesthesia than blonds and brunettes. "

Pretend that you're grading and take a red pen to it.

"Rigorously practice the principle of symmetrical skepticism. Assume goodwill, but also assume that everything people tell you is wrong until you have looked it up for yourself, no matter how much you may agree with your source of information"

"The researchers found that the people who performed the horizontal eye movements correctly remembered, on average, more than 10 percent more words, and falsely recognized about 15 percent fewer "lure" words"

Filter for minimum competence. It saves time.

Why you're attending an actual college.

Sites have emerged offering advice to parents on monitoring their children's social networking profiles (for drug references, sexual photos, etc.) or offering to monitor, decipher, and send reports to parents (just parents?...) for a subscription fee.

"Straight talk from soldiers, veterans and their family members tells what is missing from the sales pitches presented by recruiters and the military's marketing efforts."

""What used to be private diary entries, or letters, or personal revelations, have now become accessible ‘public records’. We all need to realize that employers and colleagues in the future will have access to our personal postings for years to come"

Cheaters, beware of the male grader.

"Any advice about procrastination that concentrates on crossing things off your to-do list is not only incomplete, but positively misleading, if it doesn't consider the possibility that the to-do list is itself a form of type-B procrastination."