One Hundred Years of the Refrigerator
No longer "a brand new concept in luxurious living," as early advertisements described them, refrigerators have transformed our everyday lives.
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Solving the Sign Problem for Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
One writer proposes a simple solution that shouldn't offend anyone.
Facebook Has Always Manipulated Your Emotions
And positive psychologists would say that this is a good thing.
Dude, You Need to Get Into Nursing
How organizations are working to recruit men into a female-dominated field.
The Sexual Politics of Nudity on HBO’s Hit Television Shows
Male entitlement fantasies are part of a climate in which women are displayed as objects for the sexual fulfillment of men.
Is America’s Personality Changing? A Decline in the Willingness to Conform
Revisiting Solomon Asch's famous conformity studies.
Health Care Is a Huge Business, but It’s Not the Doctors Who Are Making the Most Money
The anti-Obamacare rhetoric has railed against a “government takeover” of medicine but it’s not the government that’s coming between doctors and patients, it’s the insurance companies.
The Extreme Political Polarization of the Average American Voter
Today’s America is highly polarized, but the voting booth is even more so.