When female restaurant servers draw a smiley face on bills, their tips increase by about 20 percent.
The surprising origins of…well, a word we prefer not to repeat in a family blog.
Speaking of words, the consequences of “a totalistic universe in which all questions are answered,” it seems, is the rise of “thought-terminating clichés.”
Is humankind becoming more selfless and beneficent? Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) argues as much. But John Gray isn’t buying it.
“However trivial the product may be, you are actively furthering your life while earning a living.” More from the Bard of Madison Avenue.
And finally, did a “hunting, riding, fighting and sexually uninhibited tribe of wild women”—you know, Amazons—actually exist? Perhaps.
