I had expected to attend the reading, hear some poems, and, frankly, drink some beer outside. I did not expect to see a crowd of hundreds of people at a poetry reading on a Wednesday, nor was I prepared for Kooser, a quiet Nebraskan in a baseball cap, to leave me feeling emotionally pummeled after reading an hour’s worth of poetry.
I don’t make a lot of money, but I also don’t believe in baby showers. So when my husband and I learned we were expecting two years ago, we decided not to have one, but were nervous about the expenses that our little one would incur.
By making heterosexual older-male-to-younger-female-relationships the norm, Hollywood is actually making it more difficult for me to see couples that resemble my husband and myself.
Gamification has been in the spotlight for a few years now, more than long enough for the public’s love affair with the gaming elements of points, badges and leaderboards to curdle. But while gamification is falling in mainstream popularity, it is picking up steam in the workplace.
While the word “gamification” may call to mind a single learner using an app on a smartphone or a logging into an online environment to play a training game, that’s not always the case.
Often games are used in live training and, in fact, the use of games and game elements in training predates most online tools.
When it comes to recruiting in STEM fields, “what school an applicant went to” is often shorthand for “we want to hire a certain kind of employee.” Big data can help cut through the noise.