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NurtureShock : new thinking about children
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for \"giftedness\" and accompanying programs don't work, and why siblings really fight.
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Transformative Fictions in France: Futurities for Trans/Queerness in Rachilde, Céline Sciamma, and Sophie Calle
This dissertation explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century French representational works depict futurities for trans/queerness. The three primary objects – a novel, a film, and a photography project – present possibilities alternative to cis-heteropatriarchal norms. By paying critical attention to close readings and the orientation work of phenomenological objects, this dissertation finds that new possibilities for being and connecting with others emerge from disorienting encounters that reorient subjects, an insistence on prioritizing pleasure, and a capacity for invention (of new identities, relations, structures). Each chapter demonstrates how fiction may work to transform reality and how these French works encourage their audiences to enact the queer, trans, and Black life affirming worlds they envisage. The concept of “enby-futurity” is put forth and developed to describe how a belief in the power of fiction to transform the material world and an orientation towards synchronicities can grant a subject access in the here and now to glimmers of the future they long for. These French fictions offer vital strategies to effect transformation at the individual, societal, and institutional levels – proffering a timely hope to the marginalized masses.
Dissertation
President Trump’s worst behaviors can infect us all just like the flu, according to science
Since taking office, President Trump has all but dismissed the need for decorum and civility, saying he's \"modern day presidential.\" Rudeness could be more dangerous to an infant in NICU than a chronically sleep-deprived physician or receipt of wrong medication. Since there's no good remedy for rudeness, incivility becomes a psychological open wound. According to Porath and Thunderbird School of Global Management's Christine Pearson, Fortune 1000 managers spend seven weeks each year dealing with the fallout. [...]since 2003, researchers have studied toxic leadership in the military.
Newspaper Article
Divided loyalties
Because in Northern Ireland, \"Catholic\" and \"Protestant\" aren't just descriptions of religions. Instead, they are signifiers of entire traditions. \"Catholic\" doesn't mean \"universal.\" It means \"Irish.\" And Protestant means \"British.\"
Trade Publication Article
Is Baghdad another Belfast?
Of course, the American and British armed forces don't patrol their own people as though they've been conquered. They are patrolling people they have actually conquered. However, that distinction isn't necessarily reassuring, particularly when the attacks against U.S. troops and other officials have confounded the experts as to how to secure the area. The British have solicited retired members of the RUC to go police Iraq.
Trade Publication Article
Losing is good for you
As children return to school this fall and sign up for a new year's worth of extracurricular activities, parents should keep one question in mind. Whether your kid loves Little League or gymnastics, ask the program organizers this: \"Which kids get awards?\" If the answer is, \"Everybody gets a trophy,\" find another program. In June, an Oklahoma Little League canceled participation trophies because of a budget shortfall. A furious parent complained to a local reporter, \"My children look forward to their trophy as much as playing the game.\" That's exactly the problem, says Jean Twenge, author of \"Generation Me.\" In life, \"you're going to lose more often than you win, even if you're good at something,\" Twenge told me. \"You've got to get used to that to keep going.\"
Newspaper Article