Does this Mug Come with Boobs, or Balls? Things That Corporate America...
The demographic of “Ph.D.-holding, football fiend women who listen to their local call-in sports shows” is probably small. So I wasn’t the intended audience for the Dr. Pepper 10 commercial that I...
View ArticleThe Manner-Challenged, and their Children
Our power was out all weekend, along with that of millions of other electricity refugees. Our city’s patience and civility were fraying. Cannibalism loomed just around the corner, so my husband, son...
View ArticleWeddingringcropped Signs of These Post-Romantic Times: The “Anti-Cheating”...
In slang, the “cheating band” used to mean that conspicuous band of paler skin revealed when a would-be cheater took off their wedding band to fool and seduce a new lover, or to have less guilt-ridden...
View ArticleHusbands, Scouring the Toilet Will Make You Happier… Really
New research out of Cambridge University in the U.K. finds that husbands who do households chores are happier and experience greater wellbeing. This finding surprised the researchers, who hypothesized...
View ArticleThe More You Pay to Send your Children to School, the Fewer Days they Will...
I’d like to get the Freakonomics guys to explain this paradox of K-12 education: The more money you spend for your children’s education, the fewer days they’ll actually be educated. Baltimore City’s...
View ArticleWhat Accounts for the “Dismal State” of American Fiction?: A Review of Anis...
I don’t write fiction, at all. I can’t make stuff up. But I used to read more fiction than I do now. And occasionally I wonder why I’ve struggled to care about fiction in the last two decades. After...
View ArticleNew Battery Set to Be a Boom for Green Industries
What’s the Latest Development? Advances in renewable energy technologies, which have occurred rapidly over the last decade, remain somewhat mitigated by the difficulty in storing the energy they...
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Do Americans Really Envy Sweden’s Egalitarianism?
Quick: what percentage of wealth in the United States is held by the richest 20 percent of the population? And what percentage of the pie does the poorest 40 percent have? If your estimates match...
View ArticleHow Far Can Science Extend Human Longevity?
What’s the Latest Development? The United Nations currently predicts that average life expectancy will climb to near 100 years sometime in the 22nd century. That prediction has been made possible by...
View ArticleWhy the Affluent Don’t Reach Out to Others in Times of Crises
What’s the Latest Development? In times of crises, different socio-economic classes respond differently, with wealthier individuals turning inward while poorer individuals reach out to members of their...
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