Relationships and Going Places: The States of Marriage and Divorce
"The proportion of Americans who are currently married has been diminishing for decades and is lower than it has been in at least half a century."
Culture and Arts: Poetry: Off the Page [iTunes]
Off the Page, a review from the Scout Report, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin; Sponsored by University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries.
Listening to poets is always enjoyable, and this collection of poetry readings is quite a pip.…
Money and Computing: How Reverse Mortgage Lenders Put Older Homeowners’ Equity at Risk
"The greatest threat looms over millions of low income seniors with significant amounts of home equity. While some of these homeowners genuinely need access to their built-up equity, that need can make them especially vulnerable to bad advice from brokers and loan officers out to put the most money in their own pockets, and in the coffers of lenders and investors."
News and Issues: Hearings: Equal Health Care for Equal Premiums and Long Term Care Insurance Costs
"Daybook provides information on the events happening on and off Capitol Hill. Search for events, get a daily customizable email alert on what’s happening that day, and easily add events directly to your own calendar."
News and Issues: Elinor Ostrom, 1st Woman Nobelist in Economics
Her work concerns collective decisions and voluntary cooperation. In laboratory experiments, she studies when and how human beings cooperate. As a formal theorist, she has contributed essential insights to our understanding of collective action and collective choice. She has also collaborated with and advised nonprofit organizations in many countries as they address practical issues.
Money and Computing: American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration
The different types of women presented in this exhibition demonstrate not only a nationally evolving ideal of beauty, but also a concentrated effort on the part of publishers, advertisers, and the artists themselves to develop an easily identifiable, aesthetically pleasing product. Men were also charmed by these images.
Relationships and Going Places: On Losing a Sib
But the remarkable thing about siblings is that no matter how tangential the relationship, there is always a core memory of shared childhood. It is indestructible. If you’re lucky, that core is made of love and respect. Ours was, even when we didn’t agree on things. And boy, did we disagree on things. There really wasn’t much chance for sibling rivalry in our household, because we were just so different from each other.
News and Issues: Fifth Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Was a Woman
Bertha von Suttner went to work at once on a novel whose heroine suffers all the horrors of war; the wars involved were those of the author's own day on which she did careful research. The effect of Die Waffen nieder [Lay Down Your Arms], published late in 1889, was consequently so real and the implied indictment of militarism so telling that the impact made on the reading public was tremendous.






