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Kids from Pre-K to 12th grade will show off their business ideas tomorrow at The Village at Meridian, and we get the chance to be their first customers! The Village at Meridian is hosting the Heroes Academy's Student Business Fair on Saturday, May 15, and students from Pre-K to 12th grade will have socially distanced booths set up along the streets for all of us to browse through.  We might see TV-worthy cupcakes, gluten-free cookies, paintings, card tricks, bracelets, stationary, and even candy that looks like sushi.  No matter what, all of it will be unique, well-thought-out, and full o...

Before Jordan Peterson became the world’s most polarizing intellectual, he was a salesman. In the late 1990s, he flew to corporate HQs across North America to pitch a piece of hiring software called ExamCorp, a 90-minute psych assessment he’d developed with colleagues as a young assistant psychology professor at Harvard. It was simple, a personality test and some computerized tasks—click certain objects, generate words that start with, say, the letter H. Peterson told managers it could help them hire the right person for a position, and that tests like these had reliably predicted the j...

Courtesy of Andrea Barrica Andrea Barrica grew up in Folsom, California, a first-generation American in a Filipino immigrant household that she describes as religious and conservative. That background perhaps makes one of her best-known achievements seem unlikely: she is the founder of O.school, a virtual clearinghouse based in San Francisco that provides sex education for women and the LGBTQ community. Its overarching concerns include how sex education can be freed from shame and offered without judgment and how sexual wellness can be promoted through accurate, up-to-date information. Barric...