Culture of overwork needs an overhaul
Look no further than Utah for a model that saves money, reduces energy consumption and pollution, and results in a happier workforce, says Johann Hari in The Independent (UK). By cutting the government...
View ArticleAmerica middling for the middle class
Middle class Americans making between $30,000 and $50,000 per year would probably be happier, healthier and wealthier if they lived in Europe than they are here in the United States, says Thomas...
View ArticleAmerica’s great game: garage sales
Forget about baseball. Lora Lorson says on NPR that America’s great game is garage sales, where you have the chance to peer into the lives of others through their stuff, and for a small price, walk...
View ArticleA lifeguard let go for saving a life
A Florida lifeguard was fired after saving a drowning man outside of the life guarding company’s protection zone. A recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times says that this “a lesson in the dangers of...
View ArticleAbstinence is not the moral path
In the Guardian, Jill Fillipovic contends that sex before marriage is the more moral course. “Sexual morality isn’t about how long you wait. It’s about how you treat yourself and the people you’re...
View ArticleCoke’s not your ally in the war on fat
An antidote for Coke’s new slick marketing video, which claims its calories are no worse than other calories, is a brilliant animated video that shows an obese, diabetic soda-drinking cartoon bear...
View ArticleCleanses work in the mind, not in the body
We use fasting products to cleanse our bodies of poisons “as if undertaking our own personal Superfund decontamination,” says Judith Shulevitz in the New Republic, but detox programs only provide the...
View ArticleLiving forever, the right way
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google and renowned futurist is exploring the concept known as “extreme longevity” through the Immortality Project – fueled by a $5 million grant from the John...
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