Miss Representation

“Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. It explores how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in influential positions by circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women.”

Boys Becoming Men?

There’s Something Absolutely Wrong With What We Do To Boys Before They Grow Into Men “Be a man” is something we’ve all heard at one time or another, even a few of the women reading this right now. Being a “man” in that sense means something completely different to...

Crow Having Fun

A Crow Repeatedly Sleds Down a Roof on a Plastic Lid A crow enjoys the winter snow by sledding down a roof on a plastic lid in this 2012 video. It’s having such a great time it picks up the lid, flies back to the top, and goes for...

The Secret to Learning

In 1915, aged thirty-six, Einstein was living in wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 of that year, having just completed the two-page masterpiece that would catapult him into international...

Our Deepest Fear

Nelson Mandela 1994 Inaugural Presidential Speech Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,...