The importance of high-resource neighborhoods

The Dean of Literary Journalism, Malcolm Gladwell, has a piece in the latest New Yorker, Starting Over, that explores what happened to families and individuals who were forced to leave New Orleans after Katrina. We just observed the tenth anniversary of that awful storm, and the story contains some surprising observations. This is some of …

What means “special training on dealing with women?”

Austin, Texas, greeted its first-ever female majority city council with a two-hour training session for city staff on how to work with women. And evidently, the training was planned by this guy, now on administrative leave pending an investigation. You can read more here. Evidently, women ask more questions. (Whaaaat?) And we want the story …

Your television is killing you.

Made you look! OK, in fact, binge-watching television shows (which some of us may have indulged in during the recent bad weather) is tied to depression and loneliness, according to a new University of Texas at Austin study. Because binge-watching is such a new phenomenon, this is one of the first studies of its kind. …