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Dear Women, I need your help. I need to know if it is ethical for me to get my daily news from national media news outlets like CNN and Fox News when they use images that openly objectify and degrade women to sell their content. Please allow me quickly to

If you’ve ever wanted a quick glimpse into some of the statistics about the world’s most impressive structures, check out this cool little infographic by Westerman’s International: Are you remodeling your home? Then check out this post on increasing its value!  

On Halloween, we frequently seek the mysterious, the spooky, and even the gruesome. Sculptors around the globe have an awesome ability to creatively capture such emotion-provoking scenarios. For this holiday of fright, mystery, and intrigue, I looked around for some of the most amazing (and spooky) sculptures. This is what

Regardless of race, ethnicity, or cultural upbringing, did you know that all human beings contract the same muscles in the face for seven different emotions? In other words, angry people in Japan have the same facial expressions as angry people in Iceland, Madagascar, or Canada. And the same is true for

I recently taught a class entitled “Information Design in Society,” where we talk about the design of public spaces. In the course, we address typography, signage, wayfinding, architecture, colors, and emotional reactions to objects and areas. On multiple occasions during the semester, students brought up Target and Walmart as examples (apparently

There has been some interesting research recently about whether or not the name at the top of a résumé impacts whether or not a person will get an interview. Sadly, one study found that “white-sounding” names are downloaded 17% more often than “black-sounding” names and those with black-sounding names were less

Communication, as many job reports have repeatedly indicated, is considered the most important yet often most overlooked skill in the workplace and in life. If you think about it, the root of most frustrations in life nearly always stem from poor or improper communication. So what is good communication, anyway?

Public restrooms are unpleasant. Ladies, you have your own set of hurdles in those less-than-savory public spaces, but for men there is a unique problem with urinals—men don’t always aim where they should. As any guy knows, one of the most uncomfortable parts of being in a public restroom is

Aristotle famously stated that rhetoric is “an ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion.” In other words, rhetoric is about finding all communicative options in a given situation and carefully choosing which of them will most likely persuade your audience. If we are rhetorically savvy,