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What’s Holding Japanese Women Back
Prime Minister Abe’s call for women to “rise up” is great, but he needs to change Japan’s sexist business culture
iPads on Planes: Be Careful What You Wish For
So are you guilty? Like thousands of others, have you snuck an extra text, Tweet or talk after flight attendants decreed you shut off all electronic devices? Or did you continue playing Words With Friends, like Alec Baldwin? No …
Motherhood Gave Me a Nervous Breakdown
When does the “work-life balance” debate turn into a public-health crisis?
There Is No Such Thing as the ‘Traditional Male Breadwinner’
If we’re ever going to fix our problems accommodating both work and family in our lives, we have to stop thinking that the dilemmas we face today stem from the collapse of the traditional male-breadwinner family. There is no such …
How Washington Caved to Wall Street
In TIME’s recent cover story “How Wall Street Won,” Rana Foroohar gave an excellent appraisal of the last five years since Lehman collapsed. While her analysis hit at five of the major shortfalls in our “reformed” financial sector, there was even more she could have pointed to: Five years after the crisis, why have we not even begun …
The History of #—and 6 Other Symbols that Rule Twitter (and the Web)
Punctuation, as we recognize it, has been around for more than two thousand years. For most of this time the symbols that separate and clarify our letters were hazy in form and meaning, and evolved slowly; when information …
Dilbert’s Scott Adams: Choose Your Immortality
Someday you’ll be a robot with a locket holding your last human cells
Will You Still Love Me When I’m 164?
Google’s plan to extend our life span will change love, work, and just about every aspect of society
Google’s Calico: the War on Aging Has Truly Begun
Google’s Calico project means that hearts and minds have been convinced that we can defeat aging
What I Learned as a Porn Tagger
A lot of laws, like mandatory condoms, may have unexpected side effects
Today’s Millennials Will Change Their Tune About Money
Here’s the problem with trying to characterize a generation: they grow up
The Mistake Busy People Make
We think we need to manage time, but we also need to manage bandwidth