The Water Cooler
August 27th, 2010
Technology
So You Think You Can Text
Adulthood
Twenty-Somethings
"One-third of people in their 20s move to a new residence every year. Forty percent move back home with their parents at least once. They go through an average of seven jobs in their 20s, more job changes than in any other stretch. Two-thirds spend at least some time living with a romantic partner without being married. And marriage occurs later than ever. The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men; by 2009 it had climbed to 26 for women and 28 for men, five years in a little more than a generation."
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Environment
Save the Earth? Or Save Your Sanity?
"I do love the Earth, damn it. And if my only contribution to its well-being is joining the early adopters (OK, idiots) so that those who follow have better information and lower costs for green building, I'm OK with that. I just hope it's enough to make up for the squirrel I ran over this morning with the minivan."
Adulthood
Speaking of Twenty-Somethings
Honesty
Some of Us Never Make Mistakes
Then again, most of us aren't beauty pageant contestants.Technology
This is Your Brain on Computers
