In a brief, but provocative article titled “Naivete vs Ignorance,” blogger Ryan Brockey writes, I tend to be naive. My default assumption is that things will go the way they should and that people will be decent towards each other…I feel like to abandon my naive outlook is to give in to cynicism. Is...
As I’ve been following the blogoshere’s outrage at the new glittery pink and constructively simplified Legos collection for girls, I’ve thought a lot about my own childhood toys. The main issue with the Legos for girls, the so-called Friends line of products, is that universally appealing Legos collections used to be pointedly gender neutral...
Kashmir Hill of Forbes recently flagged the blogosphere to a massive teen texting research project headed by Marion Underwood of the University of Texas. The goal of the project is to study teen’s aggression and antisocial behavior by archiving and analyzing texts. With the project’s nearly 200 teens sending and receiving on average 100...
When my grandparents visited last June, Chris and I took them over to the coast for a day of hiking and dining. The drive back was pleasant with Chris dozing in the front seat and my grandparents and I lightly chatting about the beautiful scenery. About 45 minutes into the trip, I had just...
The past few days, I’ve been teaching myself sentence diagramming through Max Morenberg’s Doing Grammar, a task many people would find boring, but I find fascinating. At least marginally fascinating…which seems like a contradiction, right? Just bare with me for a moment. I love discovering and sharing the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of language. I’ve taken...
Gone to yesterday is the clumsiness and risk of sneaking and spying. Today, all you have to do is drop a palm sized GPS tracker into someone’s car or bag or even shoe, and voilà! Stalking made easy. No need to hassle with cumbersome civil rights or painstaking trust relationships. With GPS tracking seeping...