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Education Travel

Placeholder text will be too distracting.

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It’s like the props in a furniture store—filler text makes it look like someone is home. The same WordPress template might...

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Education Sports

To some, designing a website around placeholder

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

Among design professionals, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the filler text. Controversy, as in Death to Lorem Ipsum. The strength of lorem ipsum is its weakness: it doesn’t communicate. To some, designing a website around placeholder...

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Education Sports

The same WordPress template might eventually be

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. It’s like the props in a furniture store—filler text makes it look like someone is home. The same WordPress template might...

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Education Focus Technology

McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De Finibus which challenges McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of lorem ipsum was as...

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Education Focus Technology

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College

Noelle Hunt June 13, 2021

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate...

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Education GIS Master Program

Top 4 Fastest Growing Jobs In The Field Of GIS

Noelle Hunt January 11, 2021

Geographic Information Science (GIS) is a fascinating field of study that allows us to gather valuable insights from the world around us. But is GIS a growing field? Market research firm Prescient & Strategic...

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Education Engineering

Is there a demand for engineering in the future?

Noelle Hunt September 28, 2020

Electrical engineers design, develop, test, supervise and optimize electrical systems and equipment. But there is a lot more to it than that. The electrical engineering field spans industrial and commercial industries as well as...