Every year, students in the "Ghana Gold: A Corporate Social Responsibility" class travel to Ghana for two weeks, exploring the gold industry of the country. Meeting with various artists, businessmen and workers, students are challenged to think about strategies, resources and related skills that may improve the lives of people living in mining communities.
In recent years, texting has cropped up as a popular driving distraction, but the latest studies show that the growth of driving while eating may be a bigger problem. Anthropology Professor Stephen Bailey discusses the theory that people are time-starved as a common thread in the rise of this trend.
“When we're multitasking, what we're thinking about is how important we must be to have to do all these things all at once... [And] the ultimate kind of multitasking is actually feeding yourself while you're doing other stuff.”
Stephen Bailey Professor of anthropology and nutrition Boston Globe October 14, 2009
