Here is an NYT article about teenagers delaying their back-to-school shopping until a week or so after the beginning of the new year. Sever...

[I hoped to split this into two posts, one for each kind of space, but they're too inter-related. I'll leave this up for awhile to l...

I don't know what basic psychological trait this boils down to (maybe tolerance of uncertainty), but it affects all kinds of social and ...

Small children can figure out whether the teenagers and adults around them are sexually more out-of-control or more restrained. They probabl...

Found these cute Celtic harmonizing girls on vol. 4 of the awesome (and mostly out of print) Living in Oblivion series. There's a re-is...

Early '90s of course. They usually play that heroin kind of indy music that has no melody at all, no memorable chord progression, no rif...

Here is an NYT article on the failure of gays to make it in the world of stand-up comedy. Funny people tend to draw a crowd to listen to th...

There's a long article in the NYT Magazine about boys who dress like girls , which notes that 60-80% are future gays, some of the rest a...

What keeps nostalgia from leading to regression is putting yourself in the mind of someone who, back in the good old days, was as old as you...