Ha, this is so true...

Quoted: Among the bookish, even casual literary references can turn into romantic deal breakers.

A very provocative essay from the Atlantic Monthly about why women should settle for 'Mr. Good Enough' and just get married. I had some problems with this piece, though. Most notably, it didn't seem to look at any healthy, happy marriages, nor did it really talk about the varying degrees of 'settling' and when it is or isn't okay.

Quoted: The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough.

A kick-ass Slate slide show on influential women writers. Love that it starts out with bell hooks!

Quoted: In recognition of National Women's History Month, Magnum presents portraits of women writers—journalists, novelists, critics, academics—who have contributed greatly to our collective consciousness.

This book looks worth checking out.

Quoted: Slate is publishing two excerpts from Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life, which is premised on the notion that if we want to understand our world—or how to change it—we must first understand the rational choices that shape it.

Rachel, thanks for recommending this. It got amazing reviews on Amazon. We should do a phone book club about this!

Quoted: You can either manage your financial life, or let it manage - and torture - you. Financial service professionals and CFAs Thakor and Kedar recommend the former and show you how to achieve it. This guide to financial planning for young women (men, this applies to you, too) is sound and prudent... Thakor and Kedar are more like financial physicians than financial consultants.

I saw a documentary on Marilyn Waring that was made in 1988 - sort of alarming how relevant her ideas still are today. She hightlights the sexist nature of fundamental UN and World Bank economic policies that countries must adopt in order to be part of the UN or take out loans from the WB in the first place.

Quoted: Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts.

Wow, I'd never heard of this disorder before... apparently people with it can't even remember their own faces well enough to pick them out in a group photograph!

Quoted: People with prosopagnosia, or face blindness, must develop alternate strategies for identifying people.