Guess when Charles Schultz Integrated Peanuts?
Fifty years ago, Harriet Glickman convinced Charles Schultz to create a black character for his Peanuts cartoon strip. Click here to read how she did it.
The Importance of Asking People What Matters to You Rather than What's the Matter?
Above is what a seven-year-old girl alone in the hospital facing surgery wrote in response to the question "What Matters to You?" Click here to read the entire article.
Nicholas Kristof Offers Different Ways to Celebrate the Holidays
Click here to read his piece on pulling a tooth or saving a life as a new form of holiday activity.
How College Rankings Hinder Economic Equality
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Look to Others Rather than Inward, Happiness Research Suggests
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What Might Tax Cuts Do To Income Inequality?
U.S. top marginal income tax rate has been cut sharply since 1950s and 60s.
Click here for Eduarto Porter's important analysis of the effects of tax cuts on inequality.
Who's Marrying Now and Why?
Click here to read the upshot article on the subject.
Fear of Falling Helps Explain How People Vote
Photo by Dorothea Lange
Click here to read the article by Thomas B. Edsall.
New Study Suggests Global Warming Will Affect U.S. States Unevenly
Source: Science magazine.
Click here for an interesting article from the New York Times and a graphic on the variable effects of global warming on U.S. states. Click here for the full article from Science magazine with more graphics about the different kinds of uneven effects on various states.
Do Tears of Grief Look Different from Tears of Hope?
Maria Popova writes about photographer Rose Lynn Fisher's new book, The Topography of Tears. Click here to read the article and see the microphotography in Popova's weekly on line publication Brain Pickings.
People Are Suggesting New Mottos for United Airlines
Click here to read some of their suggestions.
Tappan Zee Bridge Makes New Progress
Click here for the article and photos.
Ways People Can Learn How to Learn
Click here to read the article by Claire Cain Miller.
Can We Feel Happiness Again after a Loss?
Click Here to read Liz Rosenberg's thoughtful New York Times feature.
The Social Importance of Early Child Care
Click here for an interesting article with good links to more research on this issue.
Does Telecommuting Contain Potentially Positive Economic News?
Click here to read the interesting piece by Yonatan Zunger about how improving technologies may make telecommuting possible for many more workers than Software Engineers (SWE) alone. He sees some possible advantages for communities.
Interesting Theory about How We Can Learn Better
It is based on the MIT Media Lab's 4Ps of Learning:
PROJECTS: learn by doing
PEERS: learn from others and by teaching others
PASSION: do things you are interested in
PLAY: make it fun and make time to play
Click here to read the piece. There's also a link to a free podcast in the article.
How Does Someone Decide What Work to Do?
Richard N. Bolles wrote a best-selling book to help people figure this out called What Color is Your Parachute? It first appeared in 1970, grew and developed in multiple editions (one pictured above), selling more than 10,000,000 copies since its first publication. He died recently at the age of 90. Click here for his obituary from the New York Times.
How Uber Manages an Independent Work Force
New methods are being tried by the Uber taxi company. Click here for the article from the New York Times.