Culture

Three Public Speaking Tips From a Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie 0
- Culture
- April 12, 2019
If you’ve ever found yourself in the dreaded position of giving a school presentation, chances are you’ve heard this clichéd advice: “Just picture everyone in their underwear.” Giving a class speech is something many students push through, red-faced and dry-mouthed, with the knowledge that it will be over in a few minutes. In recent years,
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Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?0
- Culture
- April 12, 2019
Here’s a headline worth pondering: “Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands.” The story, on the website SupChina, details the latest innovation at the Jiangnan Experimental School in Hangzhou. Interestingly enough, the electronic headband, dubbed Focus EDU, is made by a Harvard-incubated American startup, BrainCo, based in Somerville, Massachusetts—right next to Cambridge. As the company’s chatty video explains, in a traditional
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What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It 1
- Culture
- April 12, 2019
There was that guy in high school who went on an overseas trip. He came back and regaled everyone with the glorious things over there that are so much better than they are here. We all hated that guy. I’m that guy today. Life in Seoul I just returned from my first visit to Seoul,
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How Women Can Determine Which Men Will Be Successful in Life 0
- Culture
- April 11, 2019
“What are your long-term goals in life?” is a typical question posed by employers to job applicants. It’s a question many people hate answering. But a young college-age friend of mine has the best answer I’ve ever heard. Without batting an eye, she regularly responds: “Be a trophy wife.” She has so much talent and
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Why Early Marriage Is Better Than We Thought 0
- Culture
- April 10, 2019
Classic short stories are one of my great loves. There’s no better avenue to a quick emotional payoff or a poignant lesson than a tale that is so powerful it has survived through history. A poster child for such stories is “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, which first made its appearance on
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Baseball: The Sport of Thinking Americans 1
- Culture
- April 10, 2019
Sometimes you can be in the right place at the right time. For me, it was in the middle of the summer of 1958—a few days short of my 11th birthday. I was at Bill Meyer Stadium to see our minor league Knoxville (Tennessee) Smokies, wearing my little league uniform as I had come straight
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