Weekly News Update
- Allure looked at why your teeth may not be as white as you'd like.
- The New York Times shared a quiz that reveals your “office personality.” Example Q: “Your colleagues are making March Madness brackets and they invite you to join. You know nothing about basketball. What do you do?”
- Prevention looked at how menopause symptoms can affect women at work.
- NPR's Life Kit explored who can be a mentor, how to structure a mentoring relationship, and more.
- Newsweek noted that this fall, MIT and six out of the eight Ivies will have women presidents, and credited part of this progress to a group effort years ago by 16 women on the MIT faculty.
- Jezebel stated, “So few pregnant people — even those of us who go in armed with as much information as possible — are prepared for what actually happens” during pregnancy, childbirth, and new motherhood.
- The Wall Street Journal explained how to boost your credit score to get a lower mortgage rate.
- Book Riot rounded up 20 book apps for every kind of reader.
- Your Laugh of the Week comes from Slackjaw, with “Coffee Shop Orders Of Famous Writers.”
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The Ivy/MIT presidents thing is also a result of Larry Summers and his “back of the envelope” calculations showing that women aren’t as smart as men. That caused an uproar, and Nancy Hopkins was one of the women leading the charge. In fact, she walked out of that speech.