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In this collection of interviews, we ask what happens when men don't have cultural permission to talk about their inner lives.
Anthropologist Ilana Gershon argues that if you want to have a successful career in the US today, you have to be a job quitter.
When Jane Willenbring was a young scientist working in Antarctica, she was the target of constant hazing by her team leader. Years later, she filed a complaint. David Marchant was recently found guilty of sexual harassment by Boston University.
Christopher J. Lee says jet lag has become more than a temporarily scrambled body clock. It’s become a way of life.
Why does it seem like we always head into Monday feeling let down? Journalist Katrina Onstad explains how we ruined the weekend, and how to get it back.
In one recent study, 50 percent of people surveyed said they often or always feel exhausted from work. Emma Seppala says that it’s because collectively, we’re falling for outdated ideas about success.
People in every century, every age have complained about feeling exhausted. What’s changed over time are the explanations. Cultural historian Anna Katharina Schaffner lays them out in her new history of exhaustion, "Exhaustion: A History."
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