The Cultural Logic of Calories and Body Types Margot Finn Arts & Culture, Science & Medicine We were promised calorie labels. New York City has required them in chain restaurants since 2008 and California since 2009, but the Affordable Care Act mandated them nationwide. In April 2016, the FDA issued a...
How the Smartphone Affected an Entire Generation of Kids Jean Twenge Arts & Culture As someone who researches generational differences, I find one of the most frequent questions I’m asked is “What generation am I in?” If you were born before 1980, that’s a relatively easy question...
What Post-Weinstein Hollywood Can Learn from ’90s Sexual Harassment Training Elizabeth Tippett Arts & Culture When accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s harassment emerged, they reminded me of vignettes from harassment videos made by professional human resources trainers in the 1980s and 1990s. A female employee would...
The “Inevitable Sadness” of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Fiction Cynthia Wong Arts & Culture, Books On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a back table at a bustling cafe in London for an interview. As Ishiguro answered my questions, he explained how he...
Instead of “Work-Life Balance,” Try This New Framework Laurie Cohen and Jo Duberley Arts & Culture, Gender Studies We first began researching the field of careers more than a quarter of a century ago. Back then the idea of “work-life balance” was in its infancy and had almost no resonance at all among women, who were...
Me, Me, Me: Millennials, Midwives, and the Ongoing History of Female Self-Care Sarah Patterson Arts & Culture, Gender Studies, Medicine Several articles from reputable sources such as NPR and The Guardian have recently focused on the millennial generation’s supposed obsession with self-care. On the surface, this trend seems to fit nicely...
The “Internet of Things” is Sending Us Back to the Middle Ages Joshua Fairfield Arts & Culture Internet-enabled devices are so common, and so vulnerable, that hackers recently broke into a casino through its fish tank. The tank had internet-connected sensors measuring its temperature and cleanliness....
