November 30, 2010
Flesh in movies tracks the crime rate
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Starting around 1992, young Americans began killing off the sexual revolution that reigned during the '60s through the '80s -- by wa...
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November 28, 2010
The Expendables, a case study in how low movies have devolved
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Well, you can imagine how I would place this review into the larger context of the wussification of the culture after the 1992 peak in the c...
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November 27, 2010
Using time travel narratives to measure the rate of change in our way of life
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When a population is more or less in a state of equilibrium, forecasting into the future doesn't yield any dazzling new picture of the w...
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November 22, 2010
The Sixth Sense -- not even as haunting as Ghost
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And that was a chick flick, for god's sake. I watched The Sixth Sense for the first time in a long while, probably the first I've wa...
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November 17, 2010
Taboo against spoilers is a sign of low-quality products and vapid consumers
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Did anybody enjoy The Passion of the Christ less because they knew that Jesus was going to get crucified? Or did having such an easily predi...
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November 15, 2010
You don't have to be old to be wise
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One thing that strikes you when reading about periods of dramatic upheaval, as signaled by a sustained rise in the homicide rate, is the you...
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So long, "psych!"
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While watching Candyman the other night, I was struck by one of the character's use of the exclamation "psych!" (Also spelled ...
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November 13, 2010
Why does promiscuity rise when violence levels soar?
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What started me on this path of looking at the rising or falling of crime rates as a driver of larger social and cultural changes was the co...
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November 9, 2010
What does it take for societies to make cool chicks?
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Steve Sailer has a post up about what traits creative women tend to have, like whether they tend to be outsiders or more well connected. Fr...
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