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Alice Robb

Alice Robb is the author of Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet.

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August 27, 2014
Alice Robb
Short Men Make Better Boyfriends and Husbands
They're less likely to divorce and they do an extra hour of housework each week
August 24, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Does Sad Music Make Us Feel Happy?
August 20, 2014
Alice Robb
New Dads Get More Breaks than New Moms in the Office
August 17, 2014
Alice Robb
What Happens When Evangelical Virgin Men Get Married? This Secular Female Sociologist Found Out.
August 15, 2014
Alice Robb
Don’t Blame Parkinson’s for Robin Williams’s Suicide
August 15, 2014
Alice Robb
Save the World: Buy This Weird Milk in a Box
Unrefrigerated milk is good enough for the French
August 12, 2014
Alice Robb
Your Baby's Pacifier Could Be Stunting His Emotional Growth
August 8, 2014
Alice Robb
An Anthropologist Asked Schizophrenics Around the World to Describe the Voices in Their Heads
August 6, 2014
Alice Robb
Tipper Gore Was Right, Violent Video Games Are Bad For You
Especially those ones that play with your sense of self ...
July 28, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Plane Disasters Won’t Make People Afraid of Flying
July 25, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Did 1,000 People Watch Right-Wing D.C. Interns Debate Each Other?
A dispatch from the Cato Institute's "Libertarianism vs. Conservatism"
July 23, 2014
Alice Robb
Dogs Get Jealous When You Ignore Them
A new study on the science of canine emotion
July 22, 2014
Alice Robb
Bring Back the Wet Nurse!
A solution for working mothers that has been around for centuries
July 18, 2014
Alice Robb
Unhappy Marriages May Produce More Daughters
Upending a decades-long assumption that having daughters can lead to higher rates of divorce
July 17, 2014
Alice Robb
Venus the “Chimera" Cat Is Probably Not a Real Chimera
A geneticist explains the cat's funny fur
July 16, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Jill Abramson Gave Her First Interview to Cosmo
It's not just because Joanna knows Jill
July 16, 2014
Alice Robb
Interruptions Are Even Worse Than We Thought
That Gchat is definitely hurting your work
July 11, 2014
Alice Robb
Taylor Swift May Be Right About the Death of the Autograph
But some people now want their selfies signed
July 10, 2014
Alice Robb
Grown Women Don't Need a 'Best Friend'
No matter what Amy Poehler tells you
July 7, 2014
Alice Robb
How Using Emoji Makes Us Less Emotional
And what linguists say it means if your smiley face has a nose

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