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November 26th, 2010
It's the end of a semester-long course on Social Change at the University of Pittsburgh. Throughout the course, students mentioned the volunteer and social action ...
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November 19th, 2010
It's nearly impossible for most Americans to separate out what they need from what they want. Why? Because our wants are turned into needs by ...
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November 17th, 2010
New from the Census: Among young Americans, women hold nearly 60% of advanced degrees.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported today more women than ...
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November 12th, 2010
Interesting (and depressing) piece in a recent issue of the Economist -- Sex and the single black woman:How the mass incarceration of black men ...
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November 10th, 2010
The way we think about learning environments is changing, argue the authors of a new report about how to better use technology in education. ...
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November 8th, 2010
How the American dream of marriage and family is increasingly out of reach for the less educated
There's a widening gap between the haves and have-nots in America -- and this time the fault line is marriage. Educated young adults are ...
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November 5th, 2010
Ah, efficiency.
A new study finds that fast-food makes college students more likely to make myopic choices.
Say the University of Toronto researchers, who published their ...
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November 3rd, 2010
I came across an interesting -- if not a bit confusing -- podcast on the Freakonomics site: Stephen J. Dubner argues that between "Sea ...
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October 28th, 2010
Have you heard the story of Reed Sandridge, who, after getting laid off from his job, embarked on a Year of Giving? ...
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October 26th, 2010
A Gallup poll finds that those without a high-school diploma are 50% more likely to be underemployed than those with more education. Among those ...
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October 21st, 2010
Common phrases I hear from my students:
That exam was so gay.
Oh, come on, dude, don't be gay about it.
... and then she totally ...
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October 20th, 2010
I'm a big fan of dark humor. So this headline
Family Gets In The Way Of Work For Materialistic Individuals
seemed right on the money.
The more ...
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October 14th, 2010
Here's some weird research from the Face Research Laboratory at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Nearly 5000 women, most of whom were in their ...
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October 12th, 2010
New research proves that successful women aren't overqualified for love
While it's probably not very Christian to say "I told you so" and do a little victory jig, I kinda can't resist: New research came ...
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October 12th, 2010
Slate offers an interesting spin on the "contagiousness" research that I've been writing about recently, including a history of the concept of contagions. Yes, ...
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October 7th, 2010
One more to add to the series of social network studies out there: If your friends drink a lot, you will, too.
Writes Time.com ...
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October 5th, 2010
According to a recent working paper presented at Brookings, Garey Ramey and Valerie A. Ramey of the University of California at San Diego report ...
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September 30th, 2010
I totally missed when it came out a few months back... and in case you, did, too, check out this Economix blog about whether ...
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September 28th, 2010
"If everybody looked the same, we'd get tired of looking at each other," sang Groove Armada. Are we in danger of that happening?
Photographer Zed ...
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September 23rd, 2010
In the Wall Street Journal and then featured again on their terrific blog, The Juggle, there's a great discussion about financial lessons children ...
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