Author: Curtis Newbold

If you take a stroll through the NBA rosters on ESPN.com, you’ll get a glimpse in what NBA players make, at least as far as their salaries are concerned. But NBA player salary data doesn’t really mean a whole lot until we put it into perspective. Sure, we know they

If you need a new idea to freak out your friends, pass this image around on Facebook: Tell your friends that they aren’t looking at the great Albert Einstein, but, rather, they are looking at Marilyn Monroe. After they tell you you’re nuts, have them turn around and walk away

Ever wanted to know how women perceive your beard (or lack thereof)? Good news! Researchers actually spent their valuable time figuring it out for you and they published their results in the Journal of Evolution and Human Behavior. Evolution and ecology researchers Barnaby Dixon and Robert Brooks from the University

Ever wondered if a college degree is worth it? Pew Research from the February 2014 report entitled, “The Rising Cost of Not Going to College” suggests that it is. Compare a college degree to a high school diploma and you’ll discover that a college degree is probably worth it. Here

There is no one right way to write a proposal. But there is a “most common” way and there are certainly best practices. If you need to write a proposal and if no other template has been given to you, you can be confident that most full-length proposals include the

One of the most famous psychology experiments was done by Russian psychologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Commonly known as “Pavlog’s Dogs,” this experiment proved that animals (including humans) can be conditioned to respond physically and emotionally to social cues. Pavlov’s study helps explain why we get so easily addicted to Facebook.

Facebook recently added a new twist to its gender options on user profile pages: there are more options than being either male or female. In fact, there are now more than fifty different gender options on Facebook! Strange as it may sound to those who aren’t well-versed in gender studies,

Quotation marks are cool little guys. Not only do they have the ability to indicate dialogue, they have an amazing ability to suggest sarcasm or irony. But if used incorrectly, quotation marks can communicate irony when none is intended. Imagine seeing an advertisement for pizza that said: WE USE REAL”CHEESE.”

Visual rhetoric, in a nutshell, refers to how we are persuaded by the things we see. Rhetoric (particularly in politics) often refers to language, whether written or oral, that is used strategically to persuade people to believe or act in certain way. When people talk about visual rhetoric, you might be inclined