There are certainly many pathways that lead toward OCD behaviors in adults, and I sketched out the place of OCD in the broader web of dysfun...

The post on the anti-immigration attitudes of liberals and leftists before about 15-20 years ago got me thinking -- what did occupy their m...

I mean the kind that are crucial for identity formation, that lead to a feeling of belonging, and that endow mere spaces (where the experien...

From Wikipedia's entry on the Sierra Club: During the 1980s, some Sierra Club members, including Paul Ehrlich's wife Anne,[43] w...

Awhile ago I had a separate blog for more data-intensive posts -- Patterns in science and culture . I tried supplementing my meager summ...

As an antidote to the Millennial era's back-to-the-mid-century look -- desaturated colors, uniform lighting, and collage-like clutter of...

From the NYT : Fatal overdoses from prescription pain pills increased fivefold among women from 1999 to 2010, the most recent year for ...

Liberal media mecca The Huffington Post has a regular section devoted to celebrity . Most of the inane chatter about celebs that fills up yo...

Here is an NYT article about the surge in water park attendance and construction over the past couple decades, i.e. after our country aband...