Month: May 2011

Hungering for Equality: Lisa Miller on Food and Class in the U.S.

On By W.W. NortonIn What's There to Eat?18 Comments

Lisa Miller, award-winning journalist, is a religion editor for Newsweek, where she has worked since 2000. Her 2010 book, Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, is a history and personal memoir on the idea of life after death. In this article, she tackles a more down-to-earth situation: access to adequate nutrition in a nation …

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Large Caesar Salad – Email on the Side: MG Siegler, “I Will Check My Phone at Dinner And You Will Deal With It”

On By W.W. NortonIn How is Technology Changing Us?, Is Pop Culture Actually Good for Us?54 Comments

MG Siegler’s snarky title frames an ongoing drama in which we are all actors, willing or otherwise; day by day we redefine our relationships and our lives with new technologies. Siegler is a San Francisco-based journalist whose work appears frequently on TechCrunch, an online technology-oriented news source, blog, and information hub. He is a frequent …

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