Relationships and Going Places
The Darkest Side of Online Harassment: Menacing Behavior
Forty percent of adult internet users have personally experienced some kind of online harassment, most of it involving things like name-calling or attempts to embarrass someone. But there are also more menacing forms of harassment such as physical threats, and the Supreme Court has heard a case that weighs when threatening speech on social media breaks the law. more »
Thinking of a Summer Driving Vacation? The EIA Explains What's Up — and Down — With Gasoline Prices
So far the projections for prices remaining at low or near-low price levels seem positive. EIA analysis of the petroleum market points to fluctuations in the price of crude oil as the main contributor to the large changes in gasoline prices the United States has experienced in recent years. Crude oil prices are greatly affected by levels of supply relative to actual and expected demand for the petroleum products made from crude oil. Get out that atlas! more »
2014: Books for Children and Young Adult Readers Certain to Make Good Holiday Presents
Jill Norgren reviews: Once again I turned young readers for holiday book suggestions. I asked the same questions as in past years — "which books do you love" and "which books did you read this past year that you think other readers and listeners would appreciate?" Many favorites are new but some are classics. This year a number of books have social issue and political themes. more »
Does the Stress of Cooking Family and Holiday Meals Outweigh the Benefits?
Editor's Note: Many a year I would come home late on a Wednesday from Time magazine in New York City, only to start cooking a Thanksgiving meal at our house the next day. On Friday, I went back to work, to return home very late as the magazine was going to press. But there were times I'd have Saturday duty at Time and only see my college-attending daughters for a few hours on Sunday before they returned to school by AmTrak. more »
