• Why the Lion Is Art’s Most Powerful Symbol
• Hustle Is as Important as Technique to Cash in on Africa’s Art Boom
• Yasunari Kawabata’s Surrealist Window on the World
• Social Media Accounts You Should Follow If You’re a Fan of Freaky Found Art
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Words of the Year 2017
• ‘Complicit’ Is the Word of the Year, According to Dictionary.com
• Dictionary.com Chooses ‘Complicit’ as Its Word of the Year
• Word of the Year 2017: Dictionary.com Says ‘Complicit’ Topped ‘Totality’
• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2017: ‘Feminism’
• Nobody in the UK Has Ever…
Not Forgotten
• Native Words, Native Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
• Hedy Lamarr’s Forgotten, Frustrated Career as a Wartime Inventor
• The Forgotten Doughnut Heroines of Wartime
• The Forgotten Story of the ‘Idle Women’ – Who Fought the Second World War on Britain’s Canals
• The Secret World War II…
Increasing Breadth of Allegations
• The Industries with the Worst Sexual Harassment Problem
• New York City Ballet Investigates Sexual Harassment Claim Against Peter Martins
• The Sexual Abuse and Harassment Scandals Blowing up on Broadway
• Six in 10 Classical Music Workers Harassed, UK Survey Finds…
What to Do About Misconduct
• What Happens after Men Apologize for Bad Behavior?
• Reconciling Love and Admiration for Men Who Behave Badly
• How to Be a Good Guy in the Office without Avoiding Women Altogether
• How to Flirt Safely (by a Guy Who Is Definitely Not about to Be Fired for Harassment)…
That Time of the Year
• The Year in #MeToo: Read the Post’s Stories about the Movement
• In 90 Years Women Have Made Person of the Year Covers Eight Times
• The Choice
• Person of the Year 2017:TheSilenceBreakers
• ‘MeToo’ Movement Named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year…
Working in Japan
• Stubbornly Resistant to Change, Japan Is Finally Giving in for the Sake of Tourism
• Drone Curbs Overtime in Japan by Blasting Workers with Music
• Japanese Employees Work So Much That Drones Will Soon Intervene
• Japanese Company Prohibits Employees from Smoking on Their Commute to the Office
• I Tried to Take My Child…
Oh, Christmas Tree
• Ridicule as Police Say Kissing Under the Mistletoe without Consent Is ‘Rape’
• Inside the Upside Down: The Murky Origins of a Puzzling Christmas Tree Trend
• A Day in the Life of a Christmas Tree Farm
• Cloverdale’s Only Christmas Tree Farmer Says, ‘It’s Not as Easy as People Think’
• Ho, No: Christmas Trees W…
Work Study
• We Should All Be Working a Four-Day Week. Here’s Why
• America’s Most Gender-Differentiated Jobs
• These Easy to Read Pie Charts Reveal the Differences Between Men and Women
• Should I Use a Personal Day to Go on a Job Interview?
• Wage Theft ‘Endemic’ Among Exploited Backpackers in Australi…
Women Continue to Speak Out
• Tom Colicchio’s Open Letter to Male Chefs: ‘Enough Sexist …Talk’
• He’s a Creep, But Wow, What an Artist!
• Women in Tech Warn of More Harassment Allegations to Come
• The Sexist Dinosaurs Aren’t Only on the Prowl in Old Media
• Silence Lifts in Statehouses as Harassment Scandals Bring S…
Knee Jerks
• Move Over, Gentlemen: ‘Womanspreading’ Is Now a Thing
• Watch Out, Manspreaders: the Womanspreading Fightback Starts Now
• Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others?
• Why Lefties Have a Competitive Edge in Certain Sports
• Why Are Some People…
Body Oddities
• Women Less Likely to Receive CPR in Public, Study Finds
• Hemorrhoid Cream Has Weird Benefits for Under-Eye Area
• The Age Your Brain Matures at Everything — and It Isn’t Even Fully Developed until Age 25
• How the Human Brain Tracks a 100-Mph Fastball
• Leggo My Eggo! – Apparently Frozen Waffles Are Brain Food, Who Knew?…
Spies & Secrets
• Spy Mystery of British Sisters Who Helped Jewish Refugees Flee the Nazis
• Can You Solve It? Secrets of Russian Intelligence
• How a Master Grifter Taught the FBI to Crack Open the Art of the Deal
• The Homemaker Who Helped Solve One of Geometry’s Oldest Puzzles
• The Hidden Meaning of Kid…
Merkel Tops Power List
• How Long and How Often Do Japanese Women Bathe? Survey Investigates
• Japanese Women List Reasons They Wish Their Husbands Would Die in New Husband Death Note Book
• The Top 10 Traits of “Domestic” Women in Japan, According to Japanese Men
• 5 Powerful Reasons to Be a Woman in Japa…
Harrassment Claims Spread
• Sexual Harassment Allegations Hit the Restaurant Business
• When Will the ‘Harvey Effect’ Reach Academia?
• Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
• ‘It’s Hurting Everyone’: The Truth about Sexual Misconduct in the Art World
• 2,000 Women Are Speaking out Against Rampant Sexual Harassment in the Art Worl…
Wanderlist 1
• 10 Simple Ways to Travel without Looking Like a Tourist
• Egypt’s Capital Cairo Is Worst Megacity for Women Worldwide, London Best
• Scotland’s Northeastern Scenery Circuit — 500 Miles of Sheep, History and Whisky
• Stonehenge Builders Feasted on Animals Brought from Scotland, Study Shows
• From Andes to Amazon: …
Books to School
• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…
Slices of Life
• What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle
• Smalltown America Finds Ecstasy at Dollar General
• Photographer’s Spot-On Photo Series Reveals What Women Want from Their Partners
• These Family Photos Don’t Sugarcoat the Everyday Chaos of Parenting
• Photographer Shoots the Same People Going to Work Over 9…
Mother Tongues
• Naming Your Baby in These Foreign Countries Will Give You a Headache
• Parents around the World All Speak “Motherese” to Their Babies
• 6 Traits All Middle Children Share
• Why Your Kids Might Be Able to See Better If They Play Outdoors More Often
• These Are the Best and Wo…
Just Say No to Overwork
• The Desire for Pregnant Japanese Women to Stay Thin Has Far-Reaching Effects on Their Babies’ Kidneys
• This 31-Year-Old Japanese Journalist Died Holding a Phone after Working 159 Hours of Overtime in a Month
• ‘I’m Physically and Mentally Shattered’: TV Reporter Worked Herself to Death
• Japanese Firm Fined Token…
Brief History
• Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
• Twins of the Apocalypse: What Hiroshima and the Climate Threat Have in Common
• Q&A: Why Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Is Calling an Election
• Shinzo Abe’s Electoral Rival Yuriko Koike Is Vowing to Take down One of Japan’s Greatest Evils — Hay Feve…
Dateline Japan 1
• Japanese Men Reveal the Halloween Costumes They Most Want to See on Women
• New Smartphone App Helps Lonely Women in Japan Make Female Friends, Forbids Date Requests
• Lists of What Gives Japanese Women a Good or Bad First Impression of Men Are Confusingly Similar
• Japanese Women Reveal the…
Physics and Physiology
• 10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Hand Models
• How to Trick Your Brain into Thinking a Small Animal Is Hopping up Your Arm
• 7 Surprising Facts about the Chin
• Boys Are Better at Physics Because They Learn about ‘Projection’ While Going to the Toilet, Researchers Say
• Girls’ School Shoes Are …
Isolation Stations
• What’s on US Astronaut’s Wish List after 9 Months in Space?
• Now Hiring: A Hairdresser for an Antarctic Research Station
• Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science
• After 8 Months of Isolation, Mars Research Team Emerges
• Hopeful Martians Emerge from 8-Month Experiment to Find Earth Horrific as Ever
• ‘Not One Insult’: Briton …
Prototype Tablet App
• Trigonometry Discovered on a 3700-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet
• This Mysterious Ancient Tablet Could Teach Us a Thing or Two about Math
• Archeologists Decipher Ancient Babylonian Trigonometry Tablet
• Mathematical Secrets of Ancient Tablet Unlocked after Nearly a Century of Study
• Ancient Babylonian Tablet Ma…