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School Kids Don’t Need ‘Wiggle Chairs.’ They Need a Real Recess.0
- Culture
- November 14, 2017
It isn’t easy being a kid these days: the school day has changed a great deal since the current generation of grade school kids’ parents were in school. With a greater emphasis on school work and testing, something in the school day had to disappear to make way for the focus on more academic pursuits
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Today, Even Snow Pants are Accused of Promoting Toxic Masculinity 0
- Culture
- November 14, 2017
“If we are serious about tackling the toxic masculinity which persists in our culture, we must look at the images we market to our children.” That’s the message that mother Angela Nickerson sends to Lands’ End this season in an open letter she published on Medium.com. The company, which last year featured an extensive interview
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Childhood Expert: Current Education System Will Soon ‘Disappear’2
- Culture
- November 14, 2017
Professionally, Peter Gray is known for his prominent book on psychology and for his professorship at Boston College. To the general public, however, Gray is perhaps best known for his book Free to Learn, which argues that the institutional nature of schooling is killing the natural learning ability of our children. Gray’s views were once
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Professor Makes Students Cluck Like a Chicken When Beginning a Statement With ‘I Feel’1
- Culture
- November 14, 2017
The millennial generation is often considered to be one of the most educated in recent history. But as some college professors have been discovering, their education is not one of factual, truth-filled knowledge. Instead, it is one based on fancy, but contradictory terms, feelings, and a general lack of reason. Faulkner University law professor Adam
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Why Do Powerful Men Want to Masturbate in Front of Women?0
- Culture
- November 14, 2017
Anyone who has followed the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the avalanche of accusations of sexual assault that followed might have noticed a strange commonality. A surprising number accusations involved men allegedly masturbating in front of women or asking for the permission to do so. There of course was Louis C.K., who was accused of masturbating
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Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2017
We have all been there. We’ve been slighted by the person we are speaking with as they reach for their smartphone to check a social media notification. This practice of snubbing is so common that in 2012, the Macquarie Dictionary helped to create the new word “phubbing” (a combination of phone and snubbing) to describe
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School Kids Don’t Need ‘Wiggle Chairs.’ They Need a Real Recess.0