Education

Teacher Self-Care 101

As the nationwide awareness and attention continues to surround the importance of mental health awareness, more and more individuals are practicing self-care. Self-care is considered any method or technique that individuals use in hopes to improve their health and well-being throughout their personal and professional dealings. Meaning different professions may practice different self-care methods. This post and accompanying resource will focus primarily on how teachers are approaching self-care. For teachers, making sure that they’re reaching the right physical, emotional and professional understanding of their feelings is important. This is why every self-care strategy has to be individual, as many teachers will require more care in certain areas of their life than others. Whatever the ca

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Education

How Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen Initiative Could Identify Alien Life

Breakthrough Listen, the most comprehensive search for extraterrestrial life to take place so far, has announced its latest development: a technique that can comb through existing radio telescope data to strengthen and clarify our view of this data. Since launching the initiative in 2016 with Stephen Hawking, the science philanthropist and Breakthrough Prize founder Yuri Milner has overseen pivotal developments in SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Yuri Milner has backed the 10-year program, one of his Breakthrough Initiatives, with $100 million in funding. This is just one of the initiatives that he has committed to funding as part of  his Giving Pledge. His foundation also runs the global Breakthrough Prize, the biggest award in science. Breakthrough Listen’s Work

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