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35 Scholarships Anyone Can Get - CollegeDegree.com has put this list of scholarships together that just about anyone is eligible for. The list includes scholarships in various amounts, as well as essay writing contests and some unorthodox contests like the Duct Tape Stuck at Prom Scholarship.

50 Things from Ben Jones - Ben Jones blogs for the M.I. T. admissions department. This letter, addressed to the incoming freshman, is a quick and dirty “here are the things I wish I’d known” list, with such advice as: All nighters are highly overrated. You said it, Ben.

101 Tips to Help You Make Money Doing What You Love - If you love teaching, don’t ever stop. But if your students have no idea what to do with their lives, then point them towards continuing to do the things they love. These tips from InspiredMoneyMaker.com should do the trick.

No Takebacks! Five Playground Rules to Live By - When the kids are at recess, you might do yourself some good by paying attention to what they’re yelling at one another. As it turns out, those tried and true rules like: No cutting and No do-overs might be more applicable to your adult life than you thought. From Dumb Little Man. - JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

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Top Ten Things Parents Can Do to Help Their Children Succeed in School (and in Life) - Lisa is a teacher. She is also a blogger. She seems to know what she is talking about. Check out this list on her page: Letters from Lisa. After you’re done perusing this list, check out some of her other entries. Lisa is one smart cookie.

9 Things to Stop Worrying About Right Now - Put down that glass of water, people! As it turns out, you don’t really NEED 8 glasses a day, so there is no sense in wasting precious space in the stomach for Mountain Dew. MSNBC’s Today Show puts some rumors and myths to bed so you too can sleep easy.

Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life - If you think “unabashed creativity” and “exciting” go hand in hand, then who better to take advice from than Pablo Picasso? The Positivity Blog brings us this interesting and fun list.

10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life - Do you know when someone is lying to you? If you answered “yes,” then good, you’ve recognized that a lot of people are probably liars. If you said “no,” then you are also right. In fact, you are the most right. Yep… no one lies. Not ever. Check out PsyBlog’s list of ways you can use the findings of psychological research in your daily life. You might even figure out how to use reverse psychology to outwit your students, but then again… you probably won’t. -JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

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If you’ve never read Sun Tzu’s Art of War, do yourself a favor and read it now, online, for free. Art of War isn’t just about ancient Chinese battle strategies — the reason this book has maintained its intrigue and republish-ability is because of its ability to be applied to business and social interaction. It’s more of a philosophical guide than a blueprint for combat in our day and age, but you and your students can certainly learn a thing or two from ‘Ol Sun Tzu. The guide at this website allows readers to get insight and further description of passages that may seem a bit archaic. Furthermore, you can use the site for quick searches or even link an easy-to-read, self-page-turning e-book.

If reading isn’t your thing, or if you are my Dad — who has to drive over an hour and a half each way to and from work — you might need an audio version. Luckily, this site — AudiobookTreasury.com — will let you get it just as freely and cheaply as the one aforementioned. Just download the mp3s and you can probably figure out the rest. Either way, you’ll be able to easily realize what has made this literature last as long as it has. -JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

Sun Tzu’s Art of War on SunTzuSaid.com

Art of War - Audio Book on AudioBookTreasury.com

I’m a huge comic buff - everything from superhero sagas to indie black-and-white sob stories - I even get a kick out of reading the Sunday funnies. I’ve often enjoyed the ones that make cultural references, but the strips that have some deeper meaning than just silly characters making random puns. If you’re like me, you’ll appreciate this collection of Philosophy Comix.

You’ll be surprised at how deep and thought provoking The Lockhorns can be. As it turns out, there’s something beneath the surface of this hopeless and dysfunctional marriage. All your favs are here, including Garfield and Get Fuzzy, but barely a Doonesbury and no Outland to be found. The individual strips are divided up into categories including Ethics, Eastern Philosophy, and Metaphysics. You’ll hopefully take away the philosophical messages from each cartoon, but if nothing else, you’ll certainly get a chuckle. -JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

Philosophy Comix

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The Hundred Greatest Theorems– There’s a top 100 of just about everything nowadays. Now, it’s time you geometers and algebrainiacs had your turn. According to the site, the ranking is based on “the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result.”

The Hundred Greatest Theorems

The Seven Blunders of the World – Mahatma Gandhi was known as one of the wisest spiritual leaders of all time, and he didn’t get to be revered without saying and doing some pretty great things. Here is a list of his Seven Blunders of the World presented by Dr. Hugo. My favorite: “Politics without principle.” Heh.

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64 Interview Answers You Need to Know - CrackInterview.info offers this extensive list to assure you’ll be prepared for the next time you have to be on the answering end of an interview. Some of the questions here are no-brainers, others you might have never even considered, like “Why aren’t you earning more money in this stage of your career?”

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10 Do’s and Don’ts for Your Statement of Purpose - Getting into grad school is hard enough as it is– luckily, Accepted.com presents this list of things to include and exclude from your statement of purpose when applying to the schools of your choice. When you’ve got a lot to say, you should know what not to say, too.

Accepted.com

100 Kick-butt Lifehacking Blogs - Whitepapers.org has done a wonderful thing for those of us obsessed with productivity. Here is a list, presented by topic, of the 100 best life-improving, time-saving, and get-it-done-right blogs on the web today. Some of our favorites like Dumb Little Man and 43 Folders are up there, and some new ones we’re looking forward to exploring. Maybe next time you’ll see Instructify up there, too.

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–JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

Have you only got 36 minutes left on your lunch break? Then why not take the opportunity to slurp down some philosophical knowledge for dessert? Glyn Hughes has taken some of the most famous texts of the world’s greatest philosophers and squashed them into time-friendly versions just ripe for the reading on Squashed Philosophers.

The texts are meant to be read in one sitting, and Mr. Hughes has designated an amount of time that should be spent on each. The idea is that you can take away just the essential ideas from each text rather than sit through the often archaic language which so often makes up a bulk of these books. There’s a great bit of content here, with philosophers ranging from Plato to Popper, and some of the greats have several of their texts squashed here, including my personal favorite, Walden.

This could present itself as a great way to get students to understand just how far we’ve come as thinkers, and how the world of today reflects societies of the past. Assign students a philosopher or let them pick their own, and use these condensed ideas to get them jump started in thinking of how it applies to their own lives. –JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

Squashed Philosophers