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A High-Profile Executive Job as Defense Against Mental Ills

Researchers have conducted more than 100,000 studies on schizophrenia since its symptoms were first characterized..... Now, a group of people with the diagnosis is showing researchers a previously hidden dimension of the story: how the disorder ( Read more... )

So I've had a chance to see the pilots for Homeland and American Horror Story. Both were pretty good. Both also clearly bear the seeds of badness within them. I'm curious to see how long Homeland can go without moving into the implausible excesses of 24, and how long American Horror Story can go before it a) kills everyone b) crosses over with ( Read more... )

A "Shakespeare's Sister" for contemporary politics: Poor Jane’s Almanac.


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When did girls start wearing pink?

Pink and blue arrived, along with other pastels, as colors for babies in the mid-19th century, yet the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I-and even then, it took time for popular culture to sort things out.

For example, a Ladies’ Home Journal article in June 1918 said, “ ( Read more... )