Sublime

We should question the class prejudice that allowed white, poor victims to be ignored by the authorities in a way that would be less likely to happen to a middle-class white girl raised in Islington.

she herself was “color blind” and saw only what was in a person’s heart.

men. Even though, for research purposes, Watson uses Spotify solely to listen to women artists, she found that “within the first 200 songs (19 refreshes), only 6 songs (3%) by women and 5 (3%) by male-female ensembles were included (all emerging after 121 songs by male artists).” The recommendations clearly didn’t have much to do with what else she

Her book argues that all too often, the people responsible for the products and policies that shape our lives implicitly view the default customer—or citizen—as male.

In 1906, George Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma first appeared on the London stage. The play concerns a physician, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who’s discovered a cure for tuberculosis. Ridgeon’s dilemma is that he has a limited supply of the medication and a small staff to administer it. He can treat only ten patients at a time and so must decide whos

Most people who are obese have an underlying food addiction, which is not adequately addressed with surgery alone. Few people who undergo these surgeries get the behavioral and psychological interventions they need to help them change their eating habits. Hence many of them resume eating in unhealthy ways, expand their now smaller stomachs, and end

Over-reliance on residential and nursing homes is unsustainable because of rising demand and costs of services, and it flies in the face of what most people want.