THE QUARRY

"Other places in pop culture show the traditional happily-ever-after bridal narrative imploding – from the woman's perspective."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:47:04 -0700

How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss A new crop of romantic comedies is...

Saturday Night Live: SNL Explains the Nudity in Game of Thrones(via @Gawker)

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:49:00 -0700

Saturday Night Live: SNL Explains the Nudity in Game of Thrones(via @Gawker): HBO’s Game of...

From NY Times "The Stone": "If the “the conflict” continues to be framed as one between women — between liberal and cultural feminists, or between stay at home mothers and working women, or between affluent professionals and working class women, or between mothers and childless women — it will continue to distract us from what we should really be doing"

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:33:17 -0700

May 27, 2012, 5:00 pm ‘Mommy Wars’ Redux: A False Conflict By AMY ALLEN This is why the...

TED Talk- Hans Rosling: Religions and babies

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:51:26 -0700

TED Talk- Hans Rosling: Religions and babies

From The Guardian: "Obama said during an interview on 10 November 2011. "The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality,"

Sun, 27 May 2012 09:53:48 -0700

Barack Obama: the college years In 1979, he was an 18-year-old freshman who liked Earth, Wind...

From The Guardian: "The phrase the American dream was first invented, in other words, to describe a failure, not a promise: or rather, a broken promise,"

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:06:59 -0700

The Great Gatsby and the American dream Sarah Churchwell guardian.co.uk,Friday 25 May...

NYT: "First, Europe cannot hand itself over to the unilateral views — or good intentions — of experts without public reasoning and informed consent of its citizens."

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:55:56 -0700

Op-Ed Contributor The Crisis of European Democracy By AMARTYA SEN Published: May 22, 2012 There...

From Telegraph: Lucy Worsley on her series "Harlots, Housewives and Heroines is about the women of the Restoration period."

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:27:00 -0700

Restoration housewives and heroines Careers, looks and marriage – the preoccupations of...

From The New Yorker: "College costs so much because people are paying for unstated social goals."

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:53:37 -0700

Comment The Cost of College by Nicholas Lemann May 28, 2012 Read more...

From NYT: "Several men cited the same reasons for seeking out pink-collar work that have drawn women to such careers: less stress and more time at home."

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:50:34 -0700

The New American Job More Men Enter Fields Dominated by Women Published: May 20, 2012 Even more...

Cultural Exchange between Europe and Southeast Asia: A Symposium

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:06:21 -0700

Cultural Exchange between Europe and Southeast Asia:A Symposium Saturday, May 26 - Sunday, May...

“The Harry Potter novels are simply the most important and influential children's books of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries."

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:39:08 -0700

Harry Potter and the Philosophers’ Conference at St Andrews University Other speakers...

From NPR: "You go to graduate school, you get a master's degree [or] you get a Ph.D., it's a hard thing to embrace that you're also now on welfare,"

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:17:46 -0700

Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps by NPR Staff With the economic troubles of the past few...

"Debt appears to be a common way for new mothers to plug the hole left by lost income"

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:10:54 -0700

From The Nation Too Often, a New Baby Brings Big Debt Bryce Covert May 15, 2012 Mothers’...

From Open Culture: "two converging trends point toward a future when we will see the traditional university give way to an online alternative"

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:08:15 -0700

Why the University System, as We Know It, Won’t Last …. and What’s Coming Next in Education | May...

NYT: "Degrees of Debt"

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:17:28 -0700

A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College By ANDREW MARTIN and ANDREW W. LEHREN Published:...

The Guardian's Interactive Color Wheel Reveals U.S. state by state gay rights

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:46:32 -0700

The Guardian's Interactive Color Wheel Reveals U.S. state by state gay rights: Gay rights in the...

From NY Times: "No one wants to see millions of young people sitting idle."

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:19:28 -0700

The Jobless Young Find Their Voice By HANNAH SELIGSON Published: May 5, 2012 Teachers have the...

From HuffPost: You have to work your arse off

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:51:56 -0700

How She Does It: A Day in the Life of a College Writing Professor Posted: 04/...

From NY Times: U.S. Young People's Priorities on Important Issues

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:44:06 -0700