So, you’ve just finished a task or an assignment and figure you deserve a little mental break. Why not check Facebook or Twitter? It will only take you five minutes, right? Wrong. As American students and workers spend more time [...]

The destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 intensified the negative outlook of the U.S. government towards Iraq and its leader, Saddam Hussein. As soon as the War on Terror had begun, the Pentagon and the American [...]

OpenCourseWare, also known as OCW refers to free (open) online courses and course materials that were created by universities. Open courses are the traditional and often non-traditional on-campus courses offered by the university; these courses  are filmed or recorded and [...]

NY State Troopers New York State Police, also known as State Troopers, are the state police force for New York. They are divided into 10 troops, each assigned to a specific geographic area of the state. These troops are lettered [...]

Federal Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects Human subjects have played a large role in the field of medical research, but unfortunately, the treatment of these subjects has not always been very admirable. The Federal Regulations for the Protection [...]

User Experience and Eye Tracking Researching the user experience, also referred to as UX, is a fairly new but important part of marketing, particularly marketing products and organizations on the web. The user experience refers to the emotions created and [...]

The Recording Industry and Piracy Music piracy had its first claim to fame when Napster, a peer-to-peer (P2P) file- sharing program, came online in June of 1999. Although it was shut down only two years later, other P2P file-sharing programs [...]

While Russia has been closed to  the “West” before, its periods of openness have demonstrated why Russia is called a nation of readers. Much of its literature is deep, profound, and troubling in its depiction of the human condition. Pre-Christian [...]

RoHS Regulation The Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive, commonly referred to as RoHS, was a set of legislative laws implemented by the European Union (EU) in February of 2003. It was put into effect in the summer of 2006, as [...]

  Reading List for Teens Teenage readers have a unique set of interests that makes it challenging to find books to keep their interest until the final chapter. The good news is there are many excellent authors writing for the [...]