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While today's summer office jobs bear scant resemblance to the long-term apprenticeships of the Middle Ages, both share the same purpose: jump-starting an ambitious new worker's career. In the trade guilds of 11th century England, a worker would actually pay to learn alongside a "master" who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interns | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

Hipsters were usually middle-class white youths seeking to emulate the lifestyle of the largely-black jazz musicians they followed. But the subculture grew, and after World War II, a burgeoning literary scene attached itself to the movement: Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg were early hipsters, but it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hipsters | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

Despite phenotypic and genetic dissimilarities, the refugees’ new last names prevented them from marrying other clan members—whether of Ugandan or even Rwandan origin—and entirely replaced their former identities.

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: What's in a Surname? | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

Right. But that decision, however, will, you're saying, be still there for the family to make, will be - It's still going to be a decision that the family has to make. I guess - this is my point, I think that there's this perception that you either have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

To see if counting money also reduces physical pain - previous research indicates that psychological and physical pain are experienced in a similar way - the researchers repeated the earlier social-exclusion test, except this time they replaced the ball game with a pain-sensitivity task, in which half the participants were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Counting Money Can Make You Happier | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

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