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Our culture is shifting all around us. In Undercurrents, we present our observations and insights about where our society is heading.
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go (Virtually)!
With technology, it seems you can be everywhere you want to be. Can’t make it to a class? Take one online. Can’t drive down to check out a new neighborhood? Take a Street View tour. Ther...
Cohabitation Wars!
It’s obvious that times are changing– in many ways. Too many to count, actually. I know this makes me sound old, but I was born in the 80s, so I’m not that old…yet. On...
Attn: Julia Allison, American Original
Julia Allison is a bona fide celebrity icon – and I mean that in the truest sense of the word. Unlike some of her infamous counterparts, Julia’s luminary status has been achieved without dup...
Can A Ball Really Change The World?
Two weeks ago I read an article in the Express that said the U.S. Trials for the Homeless World Cup were coming to DC. That’s right – the Homeless World Cup, coming to recruit homeless men and w...
I Now Call Google To The Witness Stand
Thanks to Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, we all know the Internet is a series of tubes. But is it also a legal defense tool? Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s legal opinion on obscenit...
Metro: Crowded And Broken
Because I used to ride the D.C. Metro every day, and a lot of my coworkers take advantage of riding the Metro (not all of us have Phuong’s love of commuting), I am always fascinated by news rep...
Risk Compensation Foils Modern Innovation
Sometimes referred to as risk homeostasis, the theory of risk compensation states that individuals have an innate target level of overall acceptable risk that rarely ever fluctuates. In other words,...
Chewing The Fat
Did you read The Washington Post’s five-part series “Young Lives at Risk: Our Overweight Children or Time’s story, “How America’s Children Packed on the Pounds”? This recent media attentio...
Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project
Here at TMG, we have a team of people tasked with advising our clients on how - and if - they should use social media tools to engage with existing and potential customers. Many times we are asked, &...
America: Are You My Mother?
A funny thing happened to me last week: I learned something valuable about 21st century America from a children’s story. That’s right: the pages I stumbled upon were from none other than the 196...
Do We Just Pretend We Care?
This article in today’s BrandWeek made me wonder — are Americans pretending to care about the environment, or do they really care? People seem to be talking the talk…but will they...
The Era Of Collaboration
All around me, I see a new era emerging - an era of collaboration. I believe we are turning the corner on an intense period of competition, where the philosophy of “win at all costs” is m...
Who Killed The Lionel Train?
Answer me this: What do the Lionel Corporation and Neil Young have in common? If you’re one of the 68 million baby boomers alive today, you’ll probably remember that Lionel was, as its peak, a c...
What’s DNA Got To Do With It? Apparently, Not Much (Says The Kentucky Supreme Court).
At TMG, we track the impact that faith and values have on our society. For example, consider that more than 40% of U.S. adults have changed their faith since childhood. What does this mean to us ...
The Question Is: Does It Really Matter?
I have noticed an extreme increase in the number of articles about chemicals in the news lately. Whether it’s the recent Nalgene bottle panic or headlines about chemicals in our water supply,...
Can Social Networking Harm You?
Thanks to the prevalence of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, privacy remains a popular topic for discussion. It’s not unusual to scroll through my friends’ online p...
Hidden In Plain View
Just last week a colleague of mine sent around a YouTube video he called “Brilliant Commercial”. The skeptic in me of course doubted its “brilliance,” but to my surprise, that’s just...