Too Consumed to Ingest the world around us?
Source: The Daily Quirk
What’s more important to you; actually enjoying the moment or taking a photo of the particular moment to show that you were enjoying it?
Culture & Society
Fast-food workers strike, seeking $15 wage, political muscle
Source: CNBC
In an attempt to raise the minimum wage, low-wage employees have staged protests in cities across the United States.
Anti-violence programs shut down as Chicago shootings climb
Source: Chicago Tribune
Read why CeaseFire, the organization featured in the 2011 documentary The Interrupters, has stopped receiving funding from the Illinois legislature and about the effects that has had.
Michael Lewis on Princeton Speech: I Aimed To Give Something Unexpected
Source: PBS
In a follow-up to his 2012 speech at Princeton University’s graduation ceremony, author Michael Lewis discusses success and luck with NewsHour journalist Jeffrey Brown in this video.
Saudi Women Still Can’t Drive, But They Are Making It To Work
Source: NPR
In this radio piece, Morning Edition’s Deborah Amos profiles a start-up online advertising agency in Saudi Arabia with an all-female staff.
Nature and technology: friends or enemies?
Source: BBC
Journalist Molly Flatt argues that there are positive relationships between nature and technology and that people can use technology to connect to nature.
The trouble with democracy
Source: The Guardian
Democracy may be the goal of a freedom movement or revolution, but once it’s established, people sometimes experience “dictator envy”—the wish to avoid the messiness and indecisiveness of a government by, for, and of the people.
2016 Is a Leap Year. Why Do We Have Them?
Source: Forbes
Every four years (with an exception at the turn of most centuries), a quirk of the calendar gives us an extra day. Learn why 2016 is one of those years.
Josephine Baker—A French and American Hero
Source: Articles on History
Rising from poverty in St. Louis to become an entertainment superstar in her adopted home of Paris, Josephine Baker could easily have enjoyed a life of leisurely wealth. Instead, she aided the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of World War II and later spoke out for American civil rights.
The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South
Source: Smithsonian
Fast-growing kudzu vines enveloping manmade structures may be a stereotype of the American South, but the truth is more complex.