A new year is almost here, ushering in a season of resolutions for a successful, productive 2018. But is there a more thoughtful way to consider your goals than simply doing and achieving more?
Many people have swallowed the conventional wisdom that calcium and vitamin D supplements lead to stronger bones. But an analysis of studies covering more than 50,000 people suggests they do not.
Earlier this year, my colleague Leah Fessler published a piece on Quartz about writing her own “user manual”—a document outlining her values, quirks, and preferred working style—to share with her supervisor, who then reciprocated.
Once a week, radio veteran John Moe sits down with a guest—usually a professional comedian—for a laugh-filled chat about debilitating mental illness. The Hilarious World of Depression podcast, which launched in mid-December 2016 and is halfway through its second season, wades headlong into a discussion about a condition that 42.5 million people live with in the US alone, but that we’ve somehow decided can only be discussed in grave, hushed tones.
The Miss America Organization, which runs the 96-year-old eponymous pageant, bills itself as “the nation’s leading advocate for women’s education” and the US’s largest provider of scholarship money for women.
The 96-year-old Miss America pageant has long been a cultural flashpoint.
Some years ago, I took a job writing biographies of famous writers for a start-up website that positioned itself as sort of an online Cliffs Notes for high school students. These included an intro (“What Dante Alighieri Did, and Why You Should Care”), a biographical essay, a timeline (“How it All Went Down”), notable quotations (“They Said It”), and a resume of their works and professional experience (“Would You Hire Harriet Beecher Stowe for a Job?”).
Bon Appetit magazine’s “Hot 10” restaurant list is a trend-setting, career-making ranking of the 10 best new restaurants in the US. Compiling that list is a responsibility of restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton.
Bank of America is the latest company to offer its employees a truly priceless benefit: time away from work.
The term “kupuna” in Hawaiian translates roughly to elder, or grandparent, or simply an older person held in high esteem. A new state program puts money behind Hawaii’s commitment to its older generations, and to the family members caring for loved ones in their later years.
The conflict between US president Donald Trump and Walter Shaub, until recently the head of the US Office on Government Ethics, were no secret. Weeks after Trump’s election, Shaub tweeted—from the agency’s official account—about the incoming president’s refusal to divest from his businesses. The critique was so sharp that even his employees thought the account had been hacked. He clashed with potential cabinet nominees with clear financial conflicts of interest and battled the new administration over ethics waivers it was quietly doling out to employees.
Science is a brutally competitive field. Long days in the lab are a given. Every hour of available time is an advantage, especially in the crucial early years of a postdoctoral career.
Late last month Satoru Anzaki, a former president of the heavy machinery manufacturer Komatsu, placed an advertisement in a national newspaper in Japan. The ad revealed the sobering news that the 80-year-old businessman had terminal gallbladder cancer, for which he had declined further treatment.
In 1998, a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington wrote a paper painting sexual harassment as being akin to a chronic health problem: a threat with multiple risk factors, warning signs, and an insidious ability to drain resources, morale, and productivity.
In the wake of the recent high-profile allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace, many companies this year are dialing down the booze if not canceling their holiday parties altogether. For companies going ahead with their office festivities, employees must confront challenging questions in the post-Weinstein era. How can you know if you’ve crossed the line with a coworker? What is considered an appropriate party interaction? Is it even possible for men and women to socialize in a professional setting without sexual entanglements? Add alcohol and office gift exchanges, and the potential for disaster only multiplies.
In 1975, a payroll clerk at the US Environmental Protection Agency named Paulette Barnes sued the agency when she was fired for refusing a boss’s advances. A year later, a former US Justice Department employee named Diane Williams filed a claim against her ex-employers for the same reason. They won their cases, paving the way for the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1986 decision that sexual harassment was a violation of the Civil Rights Act—the result of a case brought by a third black woman, Mechelle Vinson, against the bank where her former supervisor harassed and raped her repeatedly over several years.
Yvonne McNulty is a senior lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences who specializes in expatriates and human resources. She has conducted extensive research on couples who move for one person’s job, and has noticed a recurring trend in the most successful of these relocations: the partner being offered the overseas assignment is a woman.
When the New York Times published its Oct. 5 account of the sexual-harassment allegations piling up against the producer Harvey Weinstein, the company that bore his name accepted his leave of absence but seemed uncertain what to do next.
After months of speculation, Steve Ells is finally stepping down as CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, the company he founded in 1993. As Quartz’s Chase Purdy has reported, analysts have been calling for Ells’s ouster for at least a year, as Chipotle shares tumbled in the wake of a 2015 food safety scandal from which the company has not fully recovered.
When Amazon announced it was seeking a home for its second headquarters, 238 cities in North America responded, with proposals including billions of dollars in tax breaks and a variety of amenities.
Last year, a rookie filmmaker contacted the writer, director, and producer Ava DuVernay to ask for advice before starting her first feature. DuVernay, who directed Selma, 13th, and the forthcoming A Wrinkle in Time, responded with a list of tips ranging from practical matters (“Change your socks at lunch, makes you feel like a new woman”) to personal interactions with coworkers on set.
To kick off its new video series “What I Wish Someone Told Me About . . .” the website for the television-production company Shondaland turned, naturally, to Shonda Rhimes, its founder and CEO.
Today (Nov. 22) is the 54th anniversary of US president John F. Kennedy’s assassination. While literally every second of Kennedy’s shooting in a Dallas motorcade has been analyzed in depth, the actions of the staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital who treated Kennedy—and then, two days later, his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald—have received less attention. (Though “less attention” is relative when it comes to this particular episode of history: the 2013 movie Parkland examined the day from the hospital staff’s perspective.)
In recent weeks, as the discussion on sexual harassment has brought systemic patterns of sexism and abuse out into the open, many men appalled by what they’ve learned are wondering what they can do to curtail such behavior.
