On PTT's WomenTalk forum, a woman who lives in Britain brought up some scenarios that she personally experienced with her coworkers. R...

“This is the main question, with what activity one’s leisure is filled.” --Aristotle Is it important to distinguish between work and leisur...

There's a lot of single women in Taiwan. Part of that is that there are more women than men in this country, but then there's the p...

Debt has been ingrained in our cultures since at least Mesopotamian times (5000BC). This article argues that when debt becomes a way of li...

I feel like the points made in this article work on some level, but I’m uncomfortable with them on many other levels. Let’s talk about the ...

This is some material from a recent Freakonomics podcast. It seems relevant to our recent discussion about whether having a uniform societ...

From the discussion: Do we need a uniform society to have a functional democracy? —Okay, before we start the discussion, I have a question...

Here are some points we made during our last democracy discussion: (Boaty McBoatface) I want to talk about the things we mentioned and br...

What is emotional labor, and why do we have to do it? Previously at the RO Studio we discussed this concept in relation to paid jobs where ...

So, coming across this article about hygge (please don't ask me how to pronounce it, I really don't know) in The Guardian suddenly...

Esther Perel asks so many good questions in this TED talk. Also, it's a very good example of storytelling! She gets her points across ...

Let's talk narcissism, or more specifically, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). This is a little-understood pattern of behaviour ...