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Some Don’t Live to Earn, but Earn to Live
The Wall Street Journal: For most people, the key to retiring early is accumulating enough money to live out your days in your chosen style. For Fred Ecks, a former software engineer for Sun Microsystems
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How Changing Visual Cues Can Affect Attitudes About Weight
NPR: With most Americans fat or fatter, you’d think we’d be lightening up on the anti-fat attitudes. Alas, no. Even doctors often think their overweight patients are weak-willed. But changing negative attitudes about body size
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Do beautiful women have more socially desirable personalities?
NY Daily News: Beautiful women are often thought to be more social, successful, and well-adjusted than their less attractive counterparts. But a new study announced Monday finds that attractive women are more likely to have
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Hurricanes and Hot Baby Names
The New York Times: In this year’s first-grade classes, teachers might notice an unusual number of Kimberlys, Karens and Kevins. This follows an earlier bump for Alexes and Amandas, and other names that start with
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How Communities Shape Our Morals
Scientific American Mind: In last month’s column I recounted how my replication of Stanley Milgram’s shock experiments revealed that although most people can be inveigled to obey authorities if they are asked to hurt others
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Should you friend your boss on Facebook?
The Washington Post: In a sign of our changing times, a forthcoming white paper out of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school bears the title, “OMG My Boss Just Friended Me.” The study will add
