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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Over the past two years, educators, parents, students and other education stakeholders have had to learn new tactics, new technologies and develop new habits for leaning and teaching. Some of those new things have been disastrous . Others, meanwhile, have been unquestionably positive. As education returns to what we recall as normal, a big question remains - what, if any, of the good things will stick around? How many of the good things we learned or did during the pandemic can we make part of our new normal? Last year, for example, Epic , the world’s leading digital reading platform for kids, reported that reading skyrocketed. Between 2019 and 2020, when lockdowns and distance learning were taking hold, Epic said reading increased 89%. Maybe that’s not surprising. But it was good. It seemed unlikely, even improbable, that the pandemic reading boom would linger past a great re-opening. Yet, this week Epic … [Read more...] about Report: As Schools And Activities Opened, The Kids Kept Reading

The first step to managing finances and investing in the stock market should be taking ownership of the task and one needs to define her goals and the time horizon for the investment, according to Shibani Sircar Kurian, Senior EVP and Head - Equity Research at Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company. Kurian believes that 2022 would be a year of bottom-up stock picking. "While the market may not be cheap on valuations, some stocks have corrected. We have a slight preference for large-caps over mid- and small-caps given the current valuations in each of the segments," she shares during an interaction with Moneycontrol . Excerpts from the interview: On Mother's Day, what is your great advice to women who are new to the stock market and what are the investment mantras you would want to share with them? I believe that the first step to managing your finances and investing in the stock market would be to ‘take ownership’ of the task. Investing would mean differently for women … [Read more...] about Daily Voice | Shibani Kurian of Kotak AMC shares investment mantras for women

(CNN) Misinformation about how families can get through the infant formula shortage is fueling concern among pediatricians like Dr. Tanya Altmann. The California doctor has been getting phone calls, emails and social media messages -- not just from her patients but from families all over the United States -- along with photos of empty store shelves that once held infant formula. Parents say they've been to a dozen stores and looked on a hundred websites and can't find their baby's infant formula, and they want to know what to do and whether some of the so-called alternatives they're hearing about are legit. "It's scary for these moms and their babies, and it's becoming a real issue," Altmann said. Formula maker: 'This is a crisis. We can't flip a switch and make a lot more formula' Supply chain issues and product recalls have sparked the nationwide shortage of infant formulas. As of early April, seven states reported … [Read more...] about Homemade infant formula can be dangerous. Experts share how to feed your baby through the shortage

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin One area of business where women dominate the statistics is a sector of the publishing industry. As a result, the number of female literary agents has steadily increased over time. According to Zippia, 58.5% of agents are women. The publishing landscape has changed with the advancement of technology, making self-publishing more accessible and streamlined. These changes impact the desire, the need and the chances of signing with a literary agent. Even though more authors are turning to print-on-demand options to publish their books, traditional publishing still has prestige. It’s been reported that the odds of working with a literary agent are 1 in 6,000, based on the number of inquiries one receives and the number of new authors the agent is looking to sign for the year. For over two decades, Jennifer Unter, founder of the Unter Agency, has helped new authors land deals with publishing houses. As a respected agent … [Read more...] about How This Literary Agent Built An Established Agency, Shares Best Practices For Signing A Contract

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Success. Once you get a taste of it, you want more. The problem comes when you start hitting walls instead of bursting through them like a superhero. So is there a way to ensure you’ll be successful time and again? Maybe, but only if you’re willing to work on a little self-development . Realigning your habits and thought patterns—especially negative ones —naturally encourages you to problem-solve differently. As a result, you may find the success you’re seeking. It can be tough to change yourself without a little assistance, though. One way to learn about ways to increase your acumen and break unwanted habits is by diving into books. Many business people who have reinvented themselves on the road to success are happy to share their insights. Below are four suggestions for reading material designed to make you rethink your behaviors and beliefs. Each work will help you overcome the barriers that are keeping … [Read more...] about These Authors Share How To Break Habits That Hold You Back

Community means everything when it comes to mental health and happiness. (Representational image: Phil Nguyen via Pexels) What we think will make us happy: Money, fame, more money, more fame… What makes us happy: A toddler niece calling our name. Strong Wi-Fi. Humming a song… What we think will make us happy versus what currently gives us a buzz are stored in two very separate files. Which is why the seemingly simplistic findings of one of the longest studies undertaken by Harvard – that it is relationships that delight us most of all – carries a ring of home truth. This is what ‘The Study of Adult Development’ found after its long research over 80 years: happiness lies in relationships. Close ‘When the study began, nobody cared about empathy or attachment. But the key to healthy aging is relationships, relationships, relationships,’ says George Vaillant, one of the psychiatrists who led the study during an earlier period. The repeat of the word … [Read more...] about Because I’m happy…

'Machinehood' is set in 2095. (Representational image) It’s 2095. We’ve entered an age where we’ve achieved seamless integration of artificial intelligences (AIs) with human lives. It’s not only impossible but also foolish to do anything without them. AI-based bots are our personal agents. The news comes with an accuracy rating and there are pills to keep us heal quickly. The pandemic years are a reality of the past. Everything is great until Machinehood – a terrorist group that thinks they’re fighting for an equitable and dignified life for all forms of intelligences (humans, animals, and, yes, even AIs!) – strikes. They’ve given a one-week ultimatum to the human species to apply their “Machinehood Manifesto”. This unsettles the whole world. However, in particular, Machinehood has wreaked havoc in the life Welga Ramirez, whose job is to guard and protect pills manufacturers. This, in nutshell, is the believable yet fascinating world of S.B. Divya’s Machinehood … [Read more...] about ‘Writing nonbinary characters should become less awkward for writers’: S.B. Divya

California's attorney general, Rob Bonta, is taking the fight to the oil and gas industry, but over plastics. His office announced an investigation and issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil over its role in the plastics crisis. Bonta said, "In California and across the globe, we are seeing the catastrophic results of the fossil fuel industry's decades-long campaign of deception. Plastic pollution is seeping into our waterways, poisoning our environment and blighting our landscapes," according to a press release from his office. He says the truth is the vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled and the recycling rate has never surpassed 9%. Every week we consume the equivalent of a credit card worth of plastic through the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. According to the complaint, in the 1950s, 1.5 million tons of plastic were produced annually. Today, that number has skyrocketed to more than 300 million tons. Uber is stepping up its electric vehicle plans in the … [Read more...] about Responsibilities of Responsible Investing

- A + A NEW YORK (May 14): Investors are studying an array of indicators for clues about how much further a brutal slide in US stocks could run, with some signs suggesting the tumble in equities may not be over. The S&P 500 extended its decline to nearly 20% from January’s record peak on Thursday before an end-of-week bounce, approaching the cusp of a bear market amid concerns that persistently high inflation will prompt more aggressive US Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate increases that could undermine the economy. Declines have been even steeper in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, which is down 24.5% year-to-date. Despite those losses, many widely followed indicators do not yet show the pervasive panic, supercharged volatility and outright pessimism that have emerged in past market bottoms, a potentially worrisome signal for those looking to step in and buy on the cheap after the most recent sell-off of stocks. Indeed, stocks ripped higher on Friday (May … [Read more...] about Signs of market bottom elude investors after steep sell-off

- A + A NEW YORK (May 14): Wall Street surged on Friday (May 13) to end higher, closing the book on a week of wild market gyrations as relief at signs of peaking inflation vied with fears that policy tightening by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) could tilt the economy into recession. Gains were led by a rebound in megacap tech and tech-adjacent stocks, which sold off in recent sessions as benchmark Treasury yields climbed and investors worried the Fed might hike interest rates more aggressively than expected. Despite the day's gains, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posted their sixth consecutive weekly loss, the longest losing streak since fall 2012 for the S&P 500 and since spring 2011 for the Nasdaq. The Dow notched its seventh consecutive weekly dip, the blue-chip average's longest losing streak since late winter of 1980. "Is this a dead-cat bounce? Or is it a recognition by investors, as I believe, that the sell-off is overdone?" said Oliver Pursche, a senior … [Read more...] about Wall Street rallies, weekly losing streak continues