How often have you received an advertisement that seemed to be a perfect fit, or thought that your phone seemed to know what you desire better than you do? Today, advertisers have access to information about our online habits and media consumption, and use it to tailor advertisements to our...
I’m getting married next year, and like many engaged couples, my fiancée and I face the tricky question: what should we do with our surnames? Most writing about “surnaming” focuses on our actual, usually non-ideal, world—i.e., what is common, what is practical, or what constitutes a...
Perhaps my earliest memory (I must have been two or three) places me on the floor of an aunt’s gloomy sitting room, staring passively at a framed print which hung on one of the walls. An eerie image, it depicted a merry-go-round on which a handful of...
