Founded in 1949, Grand Canyon University (GCU) is Arizona’s private university. The prestigious Christian university is regionally accredited and is recognized as offering some of the best online education programs in the nation by noteworthy sources including Fortune Small Business, Technology...

Intellectual passions have no calories. Or do they? Your family and your friends ask, “What in the world are you going to do for income? Do you want to end up living in a box in an alley?” You love to talk, discuss, debate. You’re addicted to thinking. Not the accumulation of data,...

The ladder to job security goes up, and it goes back down. You are either going up that ladder or going down. Maybe you are doing fine, a few rungs up the ladder. One day BAM. Your company fires half it’s employees, and there you go… slipping back down the rungs you worked so very hard...

It’s Dilbert time. The product floats in the RAM of your brain. You could map all it’s highly complex concepts, intellectually. Everybody in the company knows how smart you are. You own the room in every meeting. You are an amazing combination of tech and sales. Nobody else in the company...

Our planet is home to a terrifying savage zero-sum game, defined by finite resources. You were born into a shark tank— you must swim and hunt and feed, competing for resources, mates, space. On Earth, where creatures eat one another to maintain life, there is one great overriding mandate—...

One brilliant kid grows up and cures AIDS. Another brilliant kid grows up and becomes the Unabomber. Why? You know why. You teach standard mainstream fourth grade. And your favorite student comes in without the homework again. “Actually,” he says, “I forgot. Really, I should...

This is your world. Exceptional students. The disabled and the gifted. You were always drawn to that side, the disabled kids. There are so many more of them than the gifted. Their needs seem so desperate, their gratitude so overwhelming. You’d always wanted to teach. You’d grown up...

FIRST-IN UNITS REPORT HEAVY FIRE CONDITIONS. POOR WATER SUPPLY AND FAST FIRE. SINGLE HOME. INHABITANTS TRAPPED, POSSIBLE CHILDREN. ALL UNITS RESPOND! You don’t feel like a hero. It’s what you do. Going into Hell is part of the job. You’ve been fighting fires for a couple of years...

Energy, green or not, we have to have energy. We’ve made a Faustian bargain in building this system of our world, and there’s no looking back. What is the “Human Habitat”? We have grown to think of our world as separate, apart from the world of all other living things, but...

The big blue globe is your home. The deck of a ship has taken you all over the planet. You have good friends in so many ports. You never expected to learn another language, when you were younger, and now you speak half a dozen, well enough to have had plenty of adventures on your own. Rotterdam, New...