Greg Pak, author of "Code Monkey Save World" — one of Kickstarter's top grossing original comic projects — and "The Princess Who Saved Herself" — which raised over $100,000 of its $15,000 Kickstarter goal — has launched a new Kickstarter campaign called "Kickstarter Secrets."

Pak told NBC News that "Kickstarter Secrets" will be a book of practical crowdfunding tips that cover every step of the crowdfunding process. For fans of Pak's work, it will also include detailed references to each of his campaigns.

Image: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, the creative team behind the graphic novel “Code Monkey Save World” and the children’s picture book “The Princess Who Saved Herself,” both of which were funded on Kickstarter. Courtesy Greg Pak / Courtesy Greg Pak

The headline reads, “The Rapid Rise of a Research Nation: China’s economic boom is mirrored by its similarly meteoric rise in high quality science.” This was not a headline in People’s Daily or China Daily but in the most prestigious of Western scientific publications, Nature.

The 38 pages, which follow that headline in a special Supplement to the journal Nature, tell us that China is now second in the world in high quality science publications and growing fast. This certainly contradicts the Western, dare I say racist, stereotype of the hardworking, but unimaginative, Asian drudge, dutifully churning out mounds of low-quality work.

The growth of entrepreneurship programming at colleges and universities across the province can be summed up in one word: “explosive.”

That’s according to Creso Sá, professor of higher education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and author of The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015) and The State of Entrepreneurship Education in Ontario’s Colleges and Universities, a report prepared for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO).

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I’ve been a full time entrepreneur for just shy of 4 years now. And let me tell you, it’s been a WILD ride, to say the least! By now, I’ve heard pretty much every stereotype imaginable about being an entrepreneur and I’m here to set the record straight!

So pull up your chair and get ready to hear what every single entrepreneur wants you to know, but was too nice to say!

Listen, we entrepreneurs have ENOUGH to deal with already. We certainly don’t need the “concerned questions” about our future from family, when they hear we’ve started a business.

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Outsourcing. It is not an unfamiliar word in the entrepreneurial sphere. More and more entrepreneurs are trying to infuse this tactic in their business to be more productive.

With books like "The 4 Hour Work Week," the benefits of outsourcing have been overstated. Many entrepreneurs want to start outsourcing. However, many of them do not know where to start.

First, it is important for the entrepreneur to know and plan which areas of their business are better suited to be outsourced to an agency or group of freelancers.

My dad’s an entrepreneur.

In 1990, he opened his own auto shop.

He took a risk, went through the motions of uncertainty and stress, worked a second job to support both his family and his business, grew his customer base, hired other mechanics, sold services (auto repair) as well as products (auto parts), and was ultimately accountable for his own success.

Ask him what he does for a living, however, and he won’t tell you he’s an entrepreneur. He’ll say he "fixes cars".

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The Ministry of Home Affairs recently posted the draft of a bill aimed at regulating the acquisition and use of geospatial information pertaining to India. In brief, the provisions of the draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016, make it illegal to acquire and even maintain previously acquired Indian geospatial data without applying for and receiving a licence from an authority that is to be created for this purpose. The remit of this authority, as per the draft, is, first, to conduct “sensitivity checks” on the geospatial information being used, and, second, to “screen” the “credentials” of both end users and end applications. Media reports have tended to focus on the aspect of the bill that talks about heavy penalties for misrepresenting the boundaries of India, but let us instead focus on the important aspects that pertain to the data ecosystem. The bill, as written, raises some questions.

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LONDON – Revising for texts and exams can be a stressful business.

This week in Britain, 10- and 11-year-old students will be sitting their Year 6 SATs tests.

These tests – the final ones kids sit before leaving Primary School – have come under fire recently. A recent survey found that 90% of children felt a pressure to do well (and over a quarter of children surveyed described themselves as “stressed” by upcoming exams), while a parent-led campaign called “LET our KIDS be KIDS” kept thousands of children out of school for the day last week in protest.

Should you let your employees work from home?

To WFH or not to WFH: that is the question.

For the uninitiated, WFH, or “Working From Home,” is an acronym that you’ll likely start seeing in more and more work emails, written by coworkers who are likely in their PJs, and probably feeding their dog at the same time.

Some 30 million Americans, or 1 in 5 U.S. workers, work from home at least once a week, research shows, and that number is expected to increase 63% in the next five years.

Lockheed Martin wants to inspire the next generation of American space innovators with a major Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education project.

Launched last month, Generation Beyond aims to bring the science of space into homes and classrooms. Geared toward middle school students, the program harnesses Lockheed Martin’s experience in deep space exploration.

Image: Artist's impression of the Orion spacecraft (NASA).

An angel investor once advised me, "If you aren't uncomfortable, you're not doing it right."

Over the last eight years of running my business, I've found myself in plenty of hairy, sudden-death predicaments. I've learned that when you're working hard to make a big impact on the world, it's perfectly natural — in fact, it's almost a prerequisite — to occasionally feel like everything will come crashing down.

Several weeks ago, I completed five bracing years in Washington, D.C., as president of the Association of American Universities. What have I learned about research universities and their place in American life? Three things stand out: undergraduate education, crucial to liberal democracy, is showing signs of getting better; federal regulation of universities, an issue to which I had previously paid little attention, is stifling and out of date; and big-time intercollegiate athletics, incredibly popular, are also incredibly perilous for universities, as their moral and physical hazards multiply rapidly.

Times Higher Education released its university rankings on Thursday, which broke down the best universities in the world using a range of criteria.

We've already covered the best universities by teaching, research, and citations, but this list examines rankings of universities by reputation.

Image: Flickr/llee_wu Princeton University has a strong reputation, but how strong?

Recently I’ve been undergoing treatment for cancer, and have had access to a leading oncologist at a world-renowned medical center. At one point during a visit, we discussed how long she’s been practicing her specialty. She said she’s been at the same hospital for more than 40 years. Then I asked what her employers had given her to note that amazing milestone — four decades of saving lives! With a shrug of acceptance rather than indignation, she laughed and showed me a plastic key chain that had been mailed to her. Clearly, that gift was a classic employer mistake — a trivial attempt at recognition that not only missed the mark but also disappointed rather than inspired.

It's a leftover term from The Cold War. There aren't strictly any second world countries left anymore. They are either first or third world countries nowadays.

This is a map of the three worlds during the Cold War. Blue is the first world, red is the second world, and green is the third world. As has been noted by commenters, several countries in green did have alliances with either side for short periods of time, or were de facto allies.

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They wake up early Willpower is highest in the morning, so getting up early lets you focus on tackling your hardest and biggest task. Also, by waking up early, there are less distractions and people to bother you. It's your time.

They exercise/meditate They prioritize their health and exercise - whether that's running on a treadmill. I kinda cheated because I included meditation here as well. I consider it exercise because you're exercising your mind.

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, emotional intelligence will be one of the top 10 job skills in 2020.

The awareness that emotional intelligence is an important job skill, in some cases even surpassing technical ability, has been growing in recent years. In a 2011 Career Builder Survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers and human resource professionals, 71% stated they valued emotional intelligence in an employee over IQ; 75% said they were more likely to promote a highly emotionally intelligent worker; and 59% claimed they'd pass up a candidate with a high IQ but low emotional intelligence.

Speaking at the annual Health Datapalooza conference today, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced a challenge to encourage health care organizations, designers, developers, digital tech companies and other innovators to design a medical bill that’s simpler, cleaner, and easier for patients to understand, and to improve patients’ experience of the overall medical billing process. The "A Bill You Can Understand" design and innovation challenge is intended to solicit new approaches and draw national attention to a common complaint with the health care system: that medical billing is a source of confusion for patients and families.

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan. Is it any wonder why so few entrepreneurs ever find the professional investors they seek?

Coliving, the latest trend in real estate, is often compared to "dorms for adults." Instead of isolated apartments, housing projects like WeWork’s WeLive offer tiny, furnished rooms and abnormally generous common spaces. Others, like Brooklyn-based Common, cater to a more mature crowd (sans WeLive's laundry-room arcade) but follow a similar concept: Residents rent furnished rooms inside of larger community complexes, just like many of them did in college.

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