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...herself is curious, independent and thoughtful. Prada once showed a raincoat that was transparent until it got wet and became opaque. This season she charmed the front row with a collection inspired by 1950s souvenir scarves and the quirky tchotchkes (beaded bags, raffish straw hats and embroidered suede moccasins) that a stylish housewife might have picked up on a honeymoon in Venice...
This much is true: In the 1950s, scientists from Sweden's Home Research Institute mapped the movements of housewives in their kitchens with the aim of redesigning their work space to be more efficient...
Gates says that wasn’t the way it was when he was growing up in the 1950s...
...consequence, today we are not as far from the time of Eleanor Roosevelt, when for women, sex was “an ordeal to be endured,” as we now imagine. The most famous survey of sexuality, the Kinsey report of the 1950s, recorded that 36 percent of women in their 20s and 15 percent of women in their 30s or older had never reached orgasm. More recent studies more or less confirm these findings, with only slightly lower numbers of women left in the orgasmic dark...
...even simpler question, worth addressing in this first column: What is technology? A handy definition goes like this: if something breaks or crashes, it's technology; if you don't notice it, it's no longer technology. Consider the car. Cars were probably a new technology until the 1950s, when they became reliable enough not to fall apart at high speeds. Microsoft Windows is clearly technology because it crashes all the time. Cell phones are technology because you can't hear the person you're talking to and also because we, as a society, haven't settled on etiquette...