Alison Garwood Jones

Newspapers of yore had "Society Pages." By women and for women, they tackled everything from recipes and hemline lengths to royal weddings and Hollywood gossip. True to my predecessors, I've lunched with the Lauders, interviewed the Kennedys and deconstructed deviled eggs (as as one would expect of a "pearly girl" and a former editor at Elle). Still, trailing A-listers with my flip cam and filing stories about their new fragrance launches or house swaps between Muskoka and the Hamptons isn't really my thing (although, I'll happily do it when food is at stake). I'd much rather use this real estate to muddle over the things that really get me going: like how our view of human nature has evolved over time. I avidly follow all the latest theories we constantly cook up — some based on science, others not — that try and explain the puzzle of being human. "Society Pages" lifestreams the most provocative research on human behavior using social media's finest tools. It asks and tries to answer the questions we're all thinking when we're not in polite company. And on slow news days, this site is my playground for, like, whatever.