Guest Thinkers — May 20, 2010

Goodbye Cinderella

The number of marriages where women earn more than men is on the rise according to the Pew Research Center due to the recession and educational opportunities available to women.

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The number of marriages where women earn more than men is on the rise according to the Pew Research Center due to the recession and educational opportunities available to women. “Gone are the days of the “Cinderella complex,” a term coined decades ago to describe women who unconsciously waited for a rich man to sweep them off their feet.”

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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