Recent content by zirro

Bob, There's a lot of research out there about the impact of attractiveness on hiring, much of it conflicting, but little that fits your assertion that the hiring bias only affects women, or that it affects women substantially more than men. Attractive men and women both reap an advantage...

Thanks Bob, this whole series was great. In my opinion, you should keep doing many of these segments about movies; you've got a lot to offer on the subject so don't shy away. Much of film history (not to mention TV, games, music, culture in general) just seems bizarre when stripped of the...

There is an (oddly) direct linkage to American military culture in Avatar, Bob. Both Jake Sully and the antagonist commander claim to be Marine First Recon. That's a very specific, elite division of America's Marine Corp. The book & HBO series "Generation Kill" was written by the journalist...