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President Biden is showing off his seemingly surprising selfie skills. The commander in chief proved proficient in taking selfies while appearing Wednesday at CJ’s Cafe in Los Angeles to highlight his administration’s student loan relief efforts. He’s in California for a three-day campaign fundraising swing. Biden was eyed shaking hands and smiling for photos at the LA eatery before showing he’s adept at switching camera modes. While posing for a selfie with a customer at CJ’s, Biden switched their phone to selfie mode, according to reporters traveling with him. The customer expressed surprise that the president knew how to do...

Okay, Jon Meacham, we're going to take up your invitation, and mock you, you shameless hack! On today's Morning Joe, discussing Ukrainian President Zelensky's visit to D.C. today, Meacham said: "I think President Biden has led with immense skill throughout this crisis. It's reminiscent of the senior President Bush during the first Gulf War, and then back to the great World War II leadership. And I say that without, people can mock that, perhaps, but David [Ignatius] can check me on it. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Greg Kelly: It's a Biden-run America filled with tragedy, soft mainstream news and self-centered career politicians - a perfect time to remind the world why Trump was like no other..

Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At a strip-mall Korean restaurant, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen and stood dumbfounded for a few minutes, watching a guy slicing garnishes, expending half the energy I would if I were doing the same at home and at twice the speed. The economy of his cooking was magnetic. He moved so little, but did so much. Being a prep cook is hard, low-wage, and essential work, as the past year has so horribly proved. It is also a “low-skill” job held by “low-skill workers,” at least in the eyes of...

President Trump signed an executive order making federal hiring "merit-based," which means skills and competency for a job will take precedence over a college degree for many types of jobs. In making this change, the White House believes it is playing catch-up to the private sector. "An over reliance on college degrees excludes capable candidates," Trump's order stated. It was signed June 26. But the change to merit-based hiring may become a monumental task for federal agencies. It might mean rewriting job ads that emphasize competencies over degrees, as well as adopting technology that can translate an applicant's experience into...

I hate to break it to parents who just sent their college-admission-minded progeny to the Tibetan Plateau to churn yak butter, but the smartest summer I ever spent was in secretarial school. This was back when I was 17, and it wasn’t grist for an essay about a transformative communion with people outside my clique. I wasn’t ripping the blinders from my eyes. I was typing — hour upon hour, day after day, with my shoulders back and my spine straight and my hands just so.

It’s been fodder for many a heated debate among men for centuries.What skills should every man know?A vast amount of ink and e-ink has been spilled on the subject. But why?Part of being a man is being competent and effective in the world. To do that, you’ve got to have skills. A man wants to know (or at least feel like he knows) that no matter what situation he’s placed in, he’ll be able to handle himself — to act rather than be acted upon. Hence our incessant drive to figure out what skills we’ll need to know in...

Ted Cruz's "Audiographic" Memory | "Glenn Beck Radio Program" (Video) On Glenn Beck’s radio show, the pundit recently discussed a little known tidbit about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Watch: How to debate like Senator Ted Cruz https://t.co/rIK6SOmQdq pic.twitter.com/0Fl5WAADrg— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2015 Apparently Cruz, whose famed 2013 marathon filibuster speech over defunding Obamacare jumped across a range of topics, has an uncanny capability to remember things he hears verbatim.Beck claims the Senator possesses the rare ability to mentally lock down any conversation like a recorded audio file, a phenomenon known as "audiographic memory.” According to The...

Surprised? So were the researchers who tested and compared workers in 23 countries. We hear about the superior tech savvy of people born after 1980 so often that we tend to assume it must be true. But is it? Researchers at Princeton-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) expected it to be when they administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Sponsored by the OECD, the test was designed to measure the job skills of adults, aged 16 to 65, in 23 countries. When the results were analyzed by age group and nationality, ETS got...

The Israeli army has formed a specialized intelligence unit that includes soldiers diagnosed with autism, a neurological disorder involving impaired social interaction and communication problems. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman’s office said that the autistic soldiers have remarkable visual and analytic capabilities. “They can detect even the smallest details, undetectable to most people,” it said in a press release. The commander of the unit, identified only as “Col. J,” said that the success of the program exceeded all expectations. “Their job is to take visual materials from satellite images and airborne sensors,” he said. “With the help of their...

Through much of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has treated his party rivals more like pesky mosquitoes than serious political opponents. He's ignored them as much as possible and felt compelled to swat at them only when they tried to bite - which hasn't been all that often. [snip] - Mitt Romney: That silver-haired, portly fellow lunging at Romney's throat with fangs bared is Newt Gingrich, who has adopted the wounded-dog strategy after his fourth-place Iowa finish. That's unfortunate for Romney, who has preferred to focus on President Barack Obama while political action committees friendly to...

After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

Every time John Remore steps up to his workstation to form a piece of sheet metal, he brings an intangible asset to the job: 42 years of experience, dating to lessons from his father.

Indians have become the fastest-growing group of immigrants to Australia. The number of Indians arriving now surpasses the Chinese and the Vietnamese as well as the Italians and Greeks - a major shift in Australian immigration. Skilled Indian workers are vital to the Australian economy, which suffers chronic labor shortages. Asians are migrating to Australia like never before. Workers from Indian in particular are in high demand here. Engineers, accountants and health professionals are all making the move from India. They bring with them the skills that Australia's booming economy desperately needs. Shantanu Chakraborty is an information technology expert who...

There is clear evidence that men perform better at spatial tasks and women outpace men on tests of verbal usage and perceptual speed, according to research conducted by Wendy Johnson, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Minnesota, and Thomas Bouchard, director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Adoption Research. The findings, which will be published in the journal Intelligence, indicate that there is little difference in how the genders fare as far as general intelligence, however. But since engineering positions are overwhelmingly filled by men, this further supports the theory that spatial abilities are key to success in...

EDMONTON -- The next time you see a child wandering lost and alone in the grocery store, sneak a peek at the parents. New research from the University of Alberta suggests there's a good chance they're ugly. "Unattractive parents are less likely than attractive parents to supervise their children closely," said Andrew Harrell. He's the same social scientist who took a fair bit of heat last year when he presented evidence suggesting parents pay more attention to attractive children. Now he's onto new findings bound to stir up further familial feelings. "The unattractive parents may be ugly because they have...

WASHINGTON The A-F-L-C-I-O has chosen Chicago to benefit from a 750 (m) million dollar community investment plan to be used to help spur economic development and create union jobs. Stephen Coyle -- chief executive officer of the A-F-L-C-I-O Housing Investment Trust -- says the formal announcement is to be made Tuesday by A-F-L-C-I-O President John Sweeney during the labor federation's 50th annual convention in Chicago. Coyle says Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D-C, also were considered. But Chicago was chosen because of its large union population and its history of being a good place to make union...

Captain Ian Harvey, who has died aged 83, was awarded a George Medal for saving the lives of 27 passengers when he made a masterly landing after a bomb had exploded in the rear of his airliner. Harvey was the pilot of a British European Airways (BEA) Vickers Viking airliner which took off from Northolt for a flight to Paris on April 13 1950. Over the English Channel, there was a loud explosion in the rear of the aircraft, which the flight crew initially thought had been caused by a lightning strike. On investigation, the second pilot, Frank Miller, found...

Neanderthal hunters rivalled human skills 17:34 23 September 03 NewScientist.com news service Neanderthals were not driven from northern Europe by vastly superior human hunters, suggests an analysis of hunting remains. The study by Donald Grayson of the University of Washington and Francoise Delpech of the University of Bordeaux challenges a popular theory that the primitive peoples died out because they were far less skillful hunters. The pair examined the fossilised remains of butchered animals from a cave in southwest France. Neanderthals inhabited southern France from 65,000 years before the present until roughly 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Neanderthals disappeared from...

ORATORY Oratory is more than ordinary speech. It is a special kind of public speaking. The orator speaks for a special purpose, in a special way, at a special time. Buehler and Johannesen define oratory as "a memorized, original, persuasive speech, dealing with worth-while subject matter of timely interests, demonstrating qualities of logic, organization, language, and delivery, and producing an effect of eloquence which is far above the ordinary." Oratory rises above the common level of speech and has a greater level of appeal and emotional impact of the listener. Its purpose is to impress, convince, or move the speaker...