We have so many ideas on how to improve your productivity process, it’s gone meta. If you need a quick way to jump start changes to your process, try moving your deadline. Changing your deadline automatically alters one of the easiest things about your process to change: where it ends. Suddenly, the goal post isn’t in the same place, so …

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s public universities over the next two years. Students, professors and state lawmakers are already blasting the plan — the deepest cut in state history — and tell ThinkProgress they’re organizing to block its passage. Ahead of his …

New research suggests that people who binge-watch tons of TV shows are probably lonely. Get a life, you sad hermit. And by you, I mean me :/. A recent University of Texas study concludes that you might also lack a bit of self control if you’re able to sit through 13 straight episodes of House of Cards without the desire …

A Nebraska woman who had her hands and feet amputated after suffering a sudden bacterial infection is in “surprisingly good spirits,” her family says. And she’s lucky to be alive. Last month, Teri Roberts, a 56-year-old wife, mother and grandmother of five from Valley, Nebraska, was diagnosed with streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome and after falling into a coma that doctors at …

Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon and the man who famously said that “some women’s bodies just don’t actually work” for the company’s yoga pants, is stepping down from Lululemon’s board of directors. From the New York Times: Wilson made a fortune convincing women that nirvana was just a $100 pair of stretch pants away, but he lost his sure …

Expectant mothers in an Ohio town who kick their smoking habit can receive free diapers as part of a new program that aims to reduce premature births and infant mortality, which have been linked to tobacco inhalation during pregnancy. Under the Summit County Baby & Me Tobacco-Free Program, mothers-to-be who smoke can earn a $25 diaper voucher for each month …

For the second year in a row, Republicans, anxious to kill off the “war on women” narrative, appointed a woman to give the official response to the State of the Union address. But while Sen. Joni Ernst got to make a speech on TV, don’t look for her to be heading up any Senate committees this year. As the New …