Not that I would know, but Author Laura Sessions Stepp has a new book about young women today. It’s called Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both.She warns teens and twenty-somethings of the heavy emotional cost of “hooking up” with no commitment or entanglement.
Listen at NPR
At first, I thought this was a joke. Then, i read the quotes on the homepage, and remembered that you have to pay for a GoogleAd link, so it’s costing someone money to promote.
Next up, is Heather Has Two Republicans Parents. :-)
Oil was once an alternative fuel, much easier to come by than whale blubber and less poisonous to the air than coal. This is among the nuggets you might learn from Lisa Margonelli in her new book Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline. It takes her from local gas [...]
On the drive to work I head on Morning Edition (NPR), that a new study shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
All children develop a belief about their own intelligence, according to research psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University.
“Some students start thinking of their [...]
Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK-47 by the age of 12. Pumped up by drugs, he was forced to kill or be killed.
Listen at NPR
Paul Amato: “Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing” on the Diane Rehm Show
By some accounts, the institution of marriage is deteriorating; others say it’s adapting and changing with the times. A sociologist talks about a new study that used surveys of couples in 1980 and 2000 to assess how marriage is changing, for [...]
Of course, most people would type in Flash parallax without quotes and I would my media blog, DesignWell, would be ranked 12th.
I have definitely learned that Google’s search engine likes Google’s blog (Blogger.com). My posts on it are higher than any other pages I’ve ever posted (well, in the past 4 years, since I was [...]
I heard of China’s Latest Fitness Fad on All Things Considered, the other night while driving home.
In China, newly affluent citizens are spending more time and money in search of a higher quality of life. They are quick to catch on to the latest foreign fitness fads, from yoga to bungee jumping and ballroom dancing [...]
So I heard this evening that some Lite-Brite-like signs were posted in Boston depicting Ignignokt and Err, characters on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and some people thought that they were explosives.
The discovery of the first one on a bridge led police to stop morning rush-hour traffic on an inter-state [...]
Due to his lampooning of Boondocks’ hiatus, it took me a few days to realize that Bill Amend actually was leaving daily publishing of his comic strip, Foxtrot.
The geeky wit accompany by sibling hi-jinx greatly appealed to me. I know I’ll miss it, since it was part of my daily ritual–viewing it online on my [...]