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Can I Change My Mind After Accepting A Job Offer?

Do you owe it to a future employer to follow through on taking a position if you are having second thoughts? Is backing out a career killer?

Everyone second-guesses a decision at some point. While some things like choosing a bad restaurant or getting stuck in traffic have very minor consequences on your life, other decisions, like choosing the wrong partner or the wrong job, can make your life miserable.

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Six Millennial Entrepreneurs Share Their Lessons From Early Failure

You can’t achieve success early in life without also getting over failure fast. Here’s what everyone can learn from the ambitions of youth.

Wisdom often comes with maturity, but a growing number of young entrepreneurs are proving that age doesn’t matter when it comes to achieving success. In the new book 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World, coauthors Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert share the stories of 75 ambitious entrepreneurs who started with an idea and turned it into reality.

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How Smarter School Architecture Can Help Kids Eat Healthier Food

To address the growing obesity crisis among its children, a rural Virginia school had to give itself a full redesign.

Some schools have banned junk food. Some have added longer gym classes, new nutrition classes, or even required standing desks. But childhood obesity rates are still about three times higher than they were in 1980. Now schools are adding another tool to the fight for fitter kids: Architecture.

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We’re Spending $10 Billion On Kids’ Classroom Technology—But Does It Help Them Learn?

The jury’s still out.

I’m only seconds into a digital copy of T.S. Eliot’s famous ode to adolescence, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock, when my ears prickle uncomfortably. As I read—”Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky, / Like a patient etherised upon a table”—a soft rock track reminiscent of James Taylor begins to crescendo in the background. Eliot’s arch observations are drowned out by the acoustic guitar and its upbeat melody.

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These Eye-Popping Lego Masterpieces Raise The Stakes For Plastic Bricks

Beautiful Lego: Wild! is a journey from the smallest bacteria to sweeping natural vistas, all made from the colorful toy bricks.

Just as The Lego Movie taught us, creativity with the colored plastic blocks shouldn’t be limited to following set instructions to build preconceived scenes. The proof of the medium’s endless possibilities is in the work of Lego designers around the world, which curator Mike Doyle, a Lego artist himself, is collecting in the book series Beautiful Lego from San Francisco’s No Starch Press.

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