Speaking While Female

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, The New York Times, January 12, 2015 When a woman speaks in a professional setting, she walks a tightrope. Either she’s barely heard or she’s judged as too aggressive. When a man says virtually the same thing, heads nod...

At Airports, a Misplaced Faith in Body Language

John Tierney, The New York Times, March 23, 2014 Like the rest of us, airport security screeners like to think they can read body language. The Transportation Security Administration has spent some $1 billion training thousands of “behavior detection...

So Many Earth-Like Planets, So Few Telescopes

Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, January 6, 2015 Astronomers announced on Tuesday that they had found eight new planets orbiting their stars at distances compatible with liquid water, bringing the total number of potentially habitable planets in the just-right...