A conversation with global demographics expert Kenneth W. Gronbach, the author of 'Upside,' about the power of demographics to steer society — and help businesses strategize for success.
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Is Technology Addiction Ruining Our Social Lives?
It’s tempting to joke about the subject, but there’s empirical evidence to suggest that overexposure and overuse of technology can negatively impact our social lives—and our mental health as well.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Upside: Profiting From the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead,’ by Kenneth W. Gronbach
There's power in counting people — and no better guide than 'Upside' by Kenneth W Gronbach a demographer and trend expert. Its an enlightening book and a great tool for making better business decisions.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced’
The intense Pulitzer Prize-winner receives a fine production at the Playhouse San Antonio's Cellar Theatre.
Read More »Female Inmates Sue over BOP Guidelines for Transgender Males
Three female inmates in a federal prison in Texas have gone to court in an attempt to block a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy that requires them to share bathrooms and showers with inmates who identify as transgender females but are biologically male.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2017: Monday, March 13 (Austin, TX)
SuperGlu and Magic Island helped kickstart the first day of SXSW Music Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »Convention Review: AnachroCon Offers Adventure in Time (Atlanta GA, Feb. 2017)
AnachroCon is an immersive adventure in and exploration of time, the best kind of escapism. This year the theme was the '60s – any '60. Hippies mingled with belles from the Civil War era and cowboys from the Wild West.
Read More »U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Private Prisons Are Back in Business with BOP
The idea that a corporation should ever profit from warehousing humans still remains beyond offensive and should not be tolerated in a civil and just society.
Read More »High Court to Weigh If Withheld Evidence Undoes Old Convictions
The Court will rule on whether convictions must be overturned if prosecutors withheld potentially exculpatory evidence from the defense.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Blurred Lines’ from Girl Be Heard at HERE
Rape culture strikes every two minutes, when someone is sexually assaulted; then disappears in the twinkling of an eye as if nothing important has happened. The brilliance of 'Blurred Lines' is that it nets this slippery monster and pins it down with irony, satire and ridicule, all the while examining how it parades itself publicly, cloaked in the righteousness of normalcy.
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