So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?
But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?
To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
David Brooks coined the word “bobo” to describe the people he calls Bourgeois Bohemians. He says they’re wealthy people who believe they’re motivated by social concerns - they buy “practical” Range Rovers.
Meet the popular blogger who launched a national conversation when she stripped down to her size 18 swimsuit on national television. Brittany Gibbons is a body image advocate who wants to help women everywhere feel comfortable in their own skin. Every inch of it.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
For weeks, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors occupied the State Capitol of Wisconsin. They ate there. They slept there. And they wrote there. Among them was sleep-in activist and blogger, Christie Taylor.
Jungian analyst David Lindorff is the author of "Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds."
We tend not to talk about death much in North America. Maybe we just don’t have the words to contain something so visceral. Maybe images are a better way to explore or express our mortality, and our feelings about it.
The best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial ten years ago for "insulting Turkishness". She says the political climate in Turkey is more polarized than ever today, and even riskier for writers. She also believes fiction can help heal divided cultures.
