We can talk about biases all we want. Depending on school of thought, some say open discussion makes it worse, not better. Depends who you ask, and about what race (condition, gender, age: you name it).

My company has a great medical plan and basically foots the bill for people to be active. There are very...

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Wow, that's great. Speaks volumes to the HR and recruiting...

I have an undergraduate degree in Geology (Western Michigan University), but have not worked in the field since approximately 1997. Until that time, I collected soil samples (cores), worked with mineralized rock formations (primarily metamorphics, some sedimentary), and measured /monitored the flow of various contaminants in water tables.

Geomorphology is a required undergraduate course, and typically in Michigan involves the close study of glacial remnants. The Great Lakes are...

The numbers don't add up for having children in modern American society, raised to an upper middle class standard. Of my peers with children, almost all have both parents working. In one case, the mother does not work (to raise the children) because of the coldly-rational decision that two kids at top-end daycare is about $3,800/month. More than most mortgages in the Seattle area. Not much less than she'd net, if working as an IT admin, her previous vocation. Others, come to think of it, have...