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Domestic Violence, Sports, and Judgments

In recent weeks, the NFL has come under fire for its handling of a number of cases of abuse by its athletes …

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

The sooner we start understanding this, the sooner we can become a good neighbor to the rest of the world…or at least …

Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”

As someone who also tends to write “strong female characters”, I applaud this article. via Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”.

Susan Cain: The power of introverts (TED)

I think it’s safe to say that I’m an introvert. I’m very thankful for fellow introvert, Susan Cain, who is forced out of her introversion to speak before the audience at TED. Her message that it’s OK to be quiet and thoughtful is welcome and important.

Inequality Based Incentives – A Baseball Analogy

Richard Epstein pointed out that incentive is fueled by inequality. What he didn’t say is that there are limits to that. We only need to head out to the ballpark to see them.

Kari Byron and Mayim Bialik understand nerdy girls (CNN.com Blogs)

“I think of geekdom as something you can be obsessed with, something to collect, what do you watch, what do you look …

Being Other In Times Of Pain

I’ve mentioned before that I have aspects of my personality that are very likely due to some degree of Asperger’s syndrome. For many things, especially knowledge-based things, these quirks are actually kind of nifty. But there’s a flip-side that rears its head that puts me separate from what I see in others

All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup (Mother Jones)

You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: Up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery. I was on this roller …

Why women really are better at almost everything: Q&A with author Dan Abrams (shine.yahoo.com)

I’ve been saying this for almost all of my life. It’s pretty obvious if you pay attention. Why women really are better …

What Teenagers Think About Facebook, Twitter and MySpace (The Faster Times)

I love this. Instead of some study where adults bring their own biases and preconceptions, one blogger just asks and–more importantly–listens. What …

Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms

If you care about education, you really need to hear what Sir Ken Robinson has to say. Whether or not he’s correct is not for me to say, but his arguments are sensible and it’s clear that what we are currently doing isn’t working…in fact, it’s doing the opposite.

Jeff’s Take On His Platonic Friendship With Juliet (Slate)

Some people complain that only women talk about platonic friendships and that men are, essentially, faking it. Well, it ain’t always so. …

Why the Very Concept of Male-Female Friendship Makes People Uncomfortable (Slate)

It was famously said in the movie, When Harry Met Sally: Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be …

Geek and Gamer Girls Are Unquestionably Cool

A group of geek and gamer women calling themselves Team Unicorn released a video parody in praise of women like them. It’s …

Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don’t really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find

This explains a lot about my life. It also explains some of the short-comings of society in general. Do-gooders get voted off …

3 Tips For a Contented Life

I’ve experienced about a half-century of life. In my guises as a writer and artist, I’ve also been a keen observer of how others have lived their lives. With the perspective that only time provides, I offer up three of the keys to getting through it all.

The world is subtle… and that’s why it’s beautiful | Phil Plait

There once was a time that we were good at this. I’m hopeful that it’s a skill we will again embrace. The …

Some Things I Get, Some Things I Don’t Get

Some things in life you like, some you dislike. Some things transcend that in our Venn Diagram of understanding: the things you “get” and the things you “don’t get”.

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