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‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ is No Longer Appropriate Terminology 2
- Culture
- July 13, 2017
Via the BBC: “London Underground staff have been told to say ‘hello everyone’ in an effort to become more gender-neutral. TfL (Transport for London) said the move was to ensure all passengers felt ‘welcome’. LGBT campaign group Stonewall welcomed the decision, which was supported by London mayor Sadiq Khan at a session of Mayor’s Question
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Should you tell your daughter she’s beautiful?0
- Culture
- July 12, 2017
Every parent of a daughter will know the feeling – looking at your little girl and thinking: how could anyone be so beautiful? I am certainly guilty of it; I think I experience this every day! My little Emma is just over a year old, and often I can’t help but tell her she’s beautiful
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Love and Doubt: the Central Truth of Existence 0
- Culture
- July 12, 2017
I’ve been working for a long time to arrive at the central truth of my existence. In search of answers I’ve read extensively the works of mystics, saints, sages and great teachers from a variety of religious and spiritual traditions. I’ve read New Age books and talked to psychics and healers. I’ve studied philosophy in
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Teachers Are Abandoning Political Neutrality in Schools 0
- Culture
- July 12, 2017
Quinn Northup was a senior at Minnesota’s Edina High School (EHS) last November when the world around her began to go a little crazy. Teachers and students were openly weeping, some uncontrollably. There was hugging. People were offering words of comfort and support to one another. “It’s going to be okay…” “Don’t worry…” “We will
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When It Comes to Reading, Does Quality Beat Quantity?0
- Literature
- July 12, 2017
At this cultural moment, a question like quality-over-quantity may seem an inane one to ask. We live in a society, after all, where schools dumb down their English curricula, where one in five rising freshmen enter college as ‘book virgins’, and (with apologies to Norman Juster) where those same students swim for years in the
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I’ve studied Larsen C and its giant iceberg for years – it’s not a simple story of climate change 0
- Culture
- July 12, 2017
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Over the past few years I’ve led a team that has been studying this ice shelf and monitoring change. We spent many weeks camped on the ice investigating melt ponds and their impact – and struggling
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