Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
distinguishing thing about disease-causing (atherogenic) lipoproteins is a surface protein, called apoB100, apoB for short. Most apoB protein is found on LDL particles but apoB is also present on other lipoprotein particles: very low density and intermediate density lipoproteins (VLDL and IDL) and Lp(a). The measurement of apoB accounts for all of
... See moreTo return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because
... See moreThe goal is to be the first choice for people who couldn’t imagine doing it themselves, simply because their work is too important or your work is too good for them to ignore.
The best way to upgrade a freelance career is to get better clients. They challenge you, pay you more and talk about you more. And you don’t get better clients by working hard
... See moreIf we want students to keep reading books, faculty have the most important role to play—regardless of whatever new devices or platforms emerge to capture students’ attention. The reaction to declining reading skills, poor comprehension, and fragmented attention spans should not be to negotiate or compromise, but to double down on the cure.
The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading . We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they are,” a
... See moreAdults underestimate the power of simply telling a young person to read a book and vouching for it ourselves.