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Are Americans Becoming Too Poor to Marry? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
A new study finds that marriage is becoming a more middle-class institution. (Flickr/Philip Taylor PT) Here’s a doozy of a claim: “Marriage is becoming a distinctive social institution marking middle...
Missed in History: The Crystal Palace 22 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
The Transept at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, at Hyde Park, London. Original Artwork: From Dickinsons’ Comprehensive Pictures of the Gr...
Missed in History: Oyster Wars 20 Aug 2013 | 10:10 pm
The Chesapeake Bay (iStockphoto.com/ThinkStock) In another listener request, today’s episode covers the long and bloody history of the Chesapeake Bay oyster wars, when the tongers fought the dredgers...
Office Romance By the Numbers 15 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Around 60 percent of adults have dipped their pen in the company ink, so to speak. ( © Strauss/Curtis/Corbis) When women entered the office in the 1870s, so did sex. By that time, though barely 2,000...
Missed in History: The Hope Diamond, Part 2 14 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
The Hope Diamond in its less famous temporary “Embracing Hope” setting. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images) In the second part of this two-parter, we follow the Hope Diamond to its current home in th...
Teen Sex and the Sleepover Debate 14 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Even though my boyfriend and I are fast approaching 30 and live under the same roof, there isn’t a question of whether we’d sleep in the same bed should we visit our parents’ homes. As long as we’re u...
Missed in History: The Hope Diamond, Part 1 14 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
Evelyn Walsh McLean, past owner of the Hope Diamond (and wearer of it in this picture). Image by © CORBIS If you’ve heard our PopStuff episode on the culture of diamonds, you know that Holly and I ar...
8 Facts About Southpaws to Celebrate International Left-Handers Day 13 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
The author, celebrating her southpawness. Hence, that “L” is for “left-handed.” As a left-handed lady, I would be remiss to not celebrate August 13, which I just learned is International Left-Handers...
Sketchy Stat: “Women Own 1% of Property” 9 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Earlier this summer, Stuff Mom Never Told You listener Pauline wrote in with an intriguing podcast suggestion: Over the past few days I read several times a statement that goes like this: Women form...
The Royal Mistress Who Gave Diamonds Their Glitter 7 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
French courtesan Agnes Sorel is credited with getting women to wear diamonds. (Flickr/Kim Alaniz) Although De Beers has been trying to convince us that “diamonds are forever” since 1947 when copy wri...
