Still finding all these links in the attic.

We need to be utopian, and these scholars at Stanford are definitely that.  "Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th century, and rather than imagine the scores of ways we could use these years to improve quality of life, we tacked them all on at the end. Only old age got longer."  They're reimagining a life where the standard is not seventy years, but a hundred--how would a life be shaped and structured that lasted that long?   

Why “Madame Bovary” is still a useful lens for understanding the world we live in today, more than 150 years after it was written: 

What makes “Madame Bovary” unique is its insistence on the unreliability of narratives, phrases, descriptions and words. All the characters, from the callow manipulators to the well-meaning dullards, are awash in cliché.

The chart in here is simply amazing.

Did you know about all these scientific discoveries of the 2010s?  I didn't.  

“Average time spent on work, search, and commuting takes up about 40 percent of waking hours for men and more than a quarter of waking hours for women. Employed men spend more time on market work than employed women but employed women spend one more hour per day than employed men on nonmarket labor and caregiving.”

This is a fascinating story about the changing face of American cuisine, the nature of multi generational immigration to America and Americanization, the rise I have far more global food system and the United States, and basically the American dream.

Happy Monday!