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December 31, 2010

Hooters impressions

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My younger brother and I were shooting the bull at Starbucks and trying to figure out where to grab a bite to eat afterwards. He jokingly su...
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December 30, 2010

Is TV really better now?

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I don't know how to answer that since I haven't watched TV for three years, and I didn't watch a whole lot from the mid-'90s...
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December 27, 2010

Level of conformity across cultures, shown by car colors

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Here are regional data from DuPont's 2010 Global Automotive Popularity Report that show what percent of new cars sold in 2010 had this ...
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December 26, 2010

2000s were a quiet decade for video games

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GameFAQs just completed a round-robin tournament of "who would win in a fight?" among 128 video games released during the 2000s. ...
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December 15, 2010

Food stuff: staying hungry, nuts to nuts, and the least destructive holiday desserts

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- I've mentioned before that the easiest way to give yourself nightmares is to eat carbs in the evening -- that spikes your glucose, whi...
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December 13, 2010

Two major waves in the history of junk mail

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Here is the prevalence of the term "junk mail" in the NYT, starting with its first occurrence in 1954 (data are in 5-year blocks, ...
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December 11, 2010

The rise of the gay friend and its consequences

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Yesterday at '80s night I saw even more disgusting evidence of the displacement of guys from a girl's social circle and gays moving ...
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December 7, 2010

Girls more likely to dig coming of age movies, even ones about boys

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Just fooling around on imdb.com and noticed that coming of age movies just about always get higher ratings from females than males. That...
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December 6, 2010

Tame-rated movies flourish during safer times

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As a follow-up to last week's post about the decline of nudity in movies tracking the overall decline in cultural wildness (including th...
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