Culture

How Phones Became Electronic Pacifiers 0
- Culture
- August 2, 2018
Imagine walking into a restaurant one evening. Most of the diners are families. Suddenly you notice something odd. Every single child in the restaurant—not just the babies but also the teenagers—is using a pacifier. And then you realize many of the parents are too. Laugh if you want, but that’s more or less what I
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Is Spanking Harmful? Why Research Hasnt Given Us a Clear Answer 0
- Culture
- August 2, 2018
The spanking debate, in case you have not heard, is over. Or is it? Contrary to Psychology Today’s pronouncement, arguments over the effectiveness are far from over. Child professionals line up either on either side of the debate, armed with an arsenal of research supporting their own view. One of the more recent studies, conducted
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How Mom and Pop Stores Are Defeating Amazon and Walmart in India 0
- Culture
- August 2, 2018
Everyone is taught to believe that gigantic retailers are the most efficient distributors of goods to the general public. Small stores may be able to fill tiny niches. They may be quaint and picturesque. However, only the gigantic retailers have the capital and economy of scale to offer everyday lower prices and variety to the
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Goya’s Painting of Saturn Devouring His Son: A Study in Damnation 0
- Culture
- August 1, 2018
It’s one of the most horrific images in the history of Western art. As the myth goes, Saturn (or Cronus, as the Greeks called him) was king of the universe, but was warned by a prophecy that one day he would be overthrown by one of his sons, just as he overthrew his father Uranus. To preserve
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Chesterton: Science Is a Tool (or a Toy), Nothing More 0
- Culture
- August 1, 2018
While he was never a teacher, G. K. Chesterton did help instruct his readers about how to think about many things. Far from the least of those things was science. And while he was never a scientist, Chesterton certainly knew something about thinking about science. To be succinct, Chesterton regarded science as either a “tool or a
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Get Rid of College Majors? Not So Fast.0
- Culture
- July 31, 2018
Should college majors be a thing of the past? That idea received a fresh airing when author Jeffrey Selingo suggested that it’s “time to end college majors as we know them.” As a researcher who studies higher education, I concede that something about the way colleges and universities educate students in the United States needs
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