A few weeks ago the New York Times published this piece addressing the serious issue that “most low-income Americans cannot afford a lawyer to defend their legal interests, no matter how urgent the issue.” The Times suggested several ways to provide better access to justice for low-income people. Those suggestions included allowing [...]
Ann E. Tenbrunsel and Max H. Bazerman in Freakonomics, Wednesday, June 01, 2011, Launching Into Unethical Behavior: Lessons from the Challenger Disaster Tenbrunsel and Bazerman evaluate the decision processes that led to the 1986 Challenger explosion “through a modern day ‘behavioral ethics’ lens.” The piece ties the ethical fallacies apparent in the [...]
I didn’t set my alarm, but I was awake a little after 3 a.m. this morning anyway. I knew it was chilly outside (I’m here in the Washington DC area for the winter break), but I was enticed out of bed and into down jacket, scarf, hat, gloves, and UGGs by what [...]
So the last installment of my three-part series—The Global Gender Gap (#3 of 3)—is going to have to wait. I’m a little crunched this week, and there’s something else I want to write about. Today I have a yen to write about teaching and technology. Now, if you ask any member of [...]