Tag: Industrial Revolution

  • Nation & World

    ‘Average’ gets his ire up

    Todd Rose, lecturer in education, debunks the myth of the “typical” learner in his new book, “The End of Average.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Unraveling a brutal custom

    A research team at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is debunking myths surrounding the brutal practice of foot binding young women in China, tying it to handwork and weaving rather than marriage prospects.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The return to recycling

    Recycling was the norm before the Industrial Revolution’s creation of cheap consumer goods started to produce what eventually became the throwaway society, according to Susan Strasser, author of the book “Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.”

    5 minutes