James Steyer, the author of Talking Back to Facebook, is on a mission to educate parents on how important it is to show our children how to manage, filter and limit media and technology.
"Religious zealots hardly have a monopoly on apocalyptic thinking....The classic apocalypse has four horsemen, and our modern version follows that pattern, with the four riders being chemicals (DDT, CFCs, acid rain), diseases (bird flu, swine flu, SARS, AIDS, Ebola, mad cow disease), people (population, famine), and resources (oil, metals). Let’s visit them each in turn." Take a look at Wired's cover story over secular apocalyptic thinking.
NYT: SMOCK MUST PAY HIS PEW RENT.
"Until recently, stay-at-home fathers made up a tiny sliver of the American family spectrum. Few in number, and lacking voice, they tended to keep to themselves, trying to avoid the inevitable raised eyebrows. In the last decade, though, the number of men who have left the work force entirely to raise children has more than doubled, to 176,000, according to recent United States census data. Expanding that to include men who maintain freelance or part-time jobs but serve as the primary caretaker of children under 15 while their wife works, the number is around 626,000" (NYT).
"A significant number of social and personality psychologists have told researchers they would discriminate against conservatives in decisions about publishing, grant applications and hiring" (Perspectives on Psychological Science).
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