redjenny

Hooray for hips and belly I have never considered myself a particularly vain person. However, constant media messaging (your body is not g...

I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Her...

So in theory the profit motive drives innovation. Too many taxes, it is said, diminishes innovation. (Never mind that entrepreneurship - pa...

Though I haven't read the book yet, the lifestyle described in Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture by Sh...

As described in this article , Rwanda is one of several places in the world that has banned plastic bags. Kigali, the capital of Rwanda is a...

As an academic, I question my usefulness. Society will always need carpenters (or plumbers or tailors or nurses or farmers). Their benefit i...

I think I feel like blogging again. My last post was about a year and a half ago. What have I been doing in that time? I have been working o...

Nature's laws of shopping: Men hunt, women gather University of Michigan psychologist Daniel Kruger has found that how we shop has an aw...