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In Defense of a Good Cry, and Other Options for ‘Losing It’
As an urban anthropologist, Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman felt a duty to record her experiences in lockdown. After all, this was a once-in-a-century global pandemic. And so, for the past 49 nights or so, she has noted
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What Our Post-Pandemic Behavior Might Look Like
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when it wasn’t widely understood that germs could pass from person to person.Before the late 1800s, habits likesharing cups with strangers and spitting in public even amidst
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To Build Resilience in Isolation, Master the Art of Time Travel
APS Member/Author: Adam Grant As isolation day approached, Scott Kelly knew he had to prepare himself mentally. He wouldn’t be able to hug his family and friends. He wouldn’t be able to go outside without
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Young Men Break Social-Distancing Rules Way More Than Young Women
Lockdown has been hard for many, including teens who had flown the nest and suddenly had to fly back home. A new survey by a team from the University of Sheffield and Ulster University in
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Americans Didn’t Wait For Their Governors To Tell Them To Stay Home Because Of COVID-19
APS Member/Author: Kyle Bourassa A favorite new debate taking place around the Twitter hearth is whether complying with social distancing guidelines is a partisan statement in and of itself. Blue states, such as Washington and
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Faces, Faces Everywhere
One of the mostly forgotten chestnuts of the newspaper racket was the photograph, always on the first snowy day of the year, of some frozen formation that resembled a human face. After seeing those pictures
