We’ll start off with an article that’ll make you feel better about your debauchery (or Netflix use) this weekend: Laurence Steinberg of the New York Times’ “The Case for Delayed Adulthood,” which, for a change, defends millennials and our stunted growth spurts.
For the linguist: Slate‘s “Does This Name Make Me Sound High-Fat?” an excerpt of Dan Jurafsky’s newly released book, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu, which questions whether or not our names for food items are arbitrary or actually sound like they taste.
The New York Times released a beautiful series of photographs devoted to exploring “Children of Immigrants” in America.
Then, there’s Emma Watson putting her Brown University education to work (she actually said that gender was a spectrum) at the United Nations: