On Norah Jones as an example of the rise in fearful-avoidant women, Ziel left a comment about how painfully uncomfortable she is in this due...

Over Christmas vacation my family watched a bunch of old home movies from when my brothers and I were little, around 1982 to '85. We mad...

Here's the abstract from a newer paper by the always enlightening Stan Liebowitz ( free PDF ): The file-sharing literature has focused m...

I think I've already got two other graphs like this on the blog somewhere, but the 2010 data are in. The first drop-off takes place in 1...

Stumbled upon this hit from the Jazz Age, where a clingy girl wonders why her crush doesn't make a move on her, even after sending him s...

That wasn't the question I had in mind when looking at these data, but one I realized I could take a crack at after picking apart someth...

In a move that recalls the anti-social drive-in culture of the mid-century, Burger King has begun testing a home delivery service . There...

East Asians and Central Americans flock to all sorts of low-paying jobs, but you hardly ever see them driving taxis or trucks (long-distance...

"Imagine a world without free knowledge" -- if that means a world without Wikipedia, well, it would be like 2003. Even if it meant...