Dramatizations, manipulations, lies ─ the famous Stanford Prison Experiment proved to be a highly influential psychological study, even though it was hardly scientific.
Aaron Gilbreath
Drought In Post-Apartheid Cape Town: An Interview with Eve Fairbanks
United in a common struggle, the drought has leveled the racially divided city’s physical and social barriers in profound ways.
Returning to Terabithia
To teach her son the rewards of reading, one mother reads him a book with a very sad ending. It’s the same book her own mother quit reading her as a child, before they reached that ending. As an parent she now realized that sparing our kids sadness doesn’t them protect them from it.
Could South Africa’s Drought Help Deconstruct the Divisions of Apartheid?
Cape Town’s drought has turned the once green city brown, but can it help unite the rich and poor and black and white?
Dry, the Beloved Country
Cape Town’s current drought has destroyed farms and the rich’s lush gardens and birthed extreme austerity measures, but could it have long-lasting effects on race relations in this segregated city?
Has India’s Booming IT Industry Finally Plateaued?
India’s once lucrative IT sector now fears it’s glory years are ending as one of its biggest companie starts downsizing.
After the Miracle
The Bangalore-based tech company called Infosys employs more people than Facebook and Google combined. It builds and maintains software for large American companies, and it helped build India’s IT industry. Now that industry is bracing for not only massive layoffs, but what the author calls the end of “India’s dominance of IT services”.
The Mr. Memory of Jazz
Jazz radio host Phil Schaap uses his deep knowledge of mid-century jazz to keep the music alive.
Bird Flight
Jazz radio host Phil Schaap relishes jazz history on a show whose winding, digressive style is both “exhaustive and exhausting.” Unlike many obsessives, Schaap uses his deep knowledge of mid-century jazz to keep it alive in the collective memory.
Small-Town New Hampshire’s Battle with Bears and Liberty
Grafton, New Hampshire has a bear problem, but how much of the problem is the result of human behavior?
