In America there is a sweeping shift in values towards more family diversity and we are starting to see this reflected in commercials for consumer goods. The shift reflects cohort changes (effects isolated to single generations) as well as period effects (change over time in an entire population)....
[caption id="attachment_2927" align="alignleft" width="240"] Image: Flickr/cc, Lotte Ch[/caption] They play iPad games during potty training. They learn computer coding before they can read. Their mothers’ smartphones become their first object of jealousy. Their sonograms are shared with the world before they see the light of day....
SXSW came and went, and in the weeks surrounding this mother of all conferences, Austin was abuzz with events that forebode what's to come in the future of education. The weekend prior to SXSW an event called STEAM3 set off. STEM is better known an...
I haven't read it yet, but Pew Research's V.P. Paul Taylor recently released his book called The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown. Or, should we rather say: The Next America: [missing value], Boomers, [missing value], Millennials, [missing value], and the Looming Generational Showdown? I...
It's been a while since I wrote about gender issues so today I'll harness International Women's Day to give a few forecasts that will affect women of the Homeland generation, or Generation Z, which is a more widely used name. I chose to describe the...
Here is a topic that is really interesteeaang. If speech intonation could reverberate in written media that last part would have sounded like a buzzing engine of some sort. Or like a croaking frog. Or like a hidden speech strategy that allows me to...
