The Adele in the video has no relationships other than her "team" at work and her financial advisor. She fills the void with the endless emptiness of a self unchained.
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Selfie culture, tourism, and the challenge of the authentic self
Just kidding -- who would give a blog post a title like that? Our family vacation this summer, to London and Paris, was my first since the Year of the Selfie Stick (which is this year). This is also the year in which 59% of "millennials" (only 40% of whom understand that they are millennials) answered…
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Herculean dimorphism
Disney's Hercules has man:woman measurements greater than any normal human pair -- and greater than ancient depictions, too.
Telling the boys and girls how to tell the boys from the girls
Difference is as difference learns.
Pregnancy discrimination and the gender gap, involuntary job choice edition
The very thing that makes someone like Angelica Valencia earn less -- being fired for getting pregnant -- disappears from the wage gap analysis if you control for occupation, hours, and job tenure.
The number one cause of traffic fatalities
Pulitzer-prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel is using bad facts to scare people about texting and driving -- which is dangerous, because it's driving.
New York City police killings: 1964 (life) – 1989 (art) – 2014 (life)
Things change. Some things more than others.
Global inequality, within and between countries
If every country were a household, the world would be almost as unequal as Nigeria.
Ridiculous NY Times Magazine data graphics
Nihilist graphics that waste time and space, and distract from real information.
How well do teen test scores predict adult income?
Just how messy is a very strong statistical relationship?
Family Inequality 